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Hello, friends. Thank you for your kind words on the occasion of my getting employment. I've been working about three weeks now and liking it. The 4 a.m. job is proofreading for EarthSky.org, a science news site for the general public. Working at that hour means going to bed about 7. The other job i...

Hello, friends. Big event in my life: I have two new jobs (I was unemployed before and my time was my own). They are both part-time, but they add up, and one of them starts at 4 a.m. I'm going to have to get used to this...but I got paid today and that means a lot!

Belated Happy New Year! Let's hope 2018 beats 2017. And this is the year I'm going to see LM live! If all goes well I will get to see the touring production in Dallas, Texas.

I was going to go to Cuba but then I didn't. ... March, I guess. I'd love to go to Cuba before it gets modernized and touristy. I understand it's a time capsule. Of course their Internet service is strictly controlled and people are still being thrown in prison for wrong thinking and such--maybe wh...

Gawd, "Misérables" sure is right. You captured their poverty in that picture. I always felt very sorry for those sisters since they were so well-kept as children and lost it all and had to dress in scraps.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

Acaila wrote:Delighted (pleasantly surprised) by the Alabama result!

Gives us Southern liberals hope. All six of us.

Well, hey! Alabama managed to elect their first Democratic candidate to the Senate in over 20 years . . . WOO-HOO! Now let's hope there isn't some kind of a backlash. What he said about the sanctity of the family being greatest during the time of slavery was more than absurd, it was abominable. Whe...

Victor Hugo believed in universal public education, or at least his characters did, as a step toward utopia. Here is an interesting article about public schools in France banning phones:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/12/1 ... in-schools

Acaila wrote:On the Christmas theme, I noted a couple of weeks ago that you can sing the whole bit of Les Mis where Valjean appears at the barricade up to the First Attack to the tune of Jolly Old Saint Nicholas.

Here is a cool article about the origins of "ship" and "slash" -- apparently slash goes back decades before ship. Lots of examples from fandoms I never heard of.
https://medium.com/fansplaining/to-ship-or-not-to-ship-c7a0572e3782

What Prisoner said. ARGH, it's true. I'm using Resist-Bot to fax and write to my congresspeople not that it's going to do any good. Texas is backward. Resist-Bot, what it is: you text in your name, address, and so on, and a message, and it sends it via fax or mail. Not a bot in the usual (spammy) se...

For the people in the US, happy Thanksgiving!

Morbidmuch_ wrote:
Let's hope it is better than an oooperaa That was super lame, I apologise for my own geekiness.

I'm sitting here laughing out loud