Brunch!

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Due to dietary restrictions we will be going to The Original Pancake House at 39222 Fremont Blvd
Fremont, CA 94538 tomorrow! I have a final (edited) confirmation list that looks like:
[info]rightkindofme — Yes!
[info]mitrian — Yes!
[info]angelkatharine — Yes!
[info]polkamadness — Yes! (Ok, I’ll officially add you instead of just mentally adding you.)
[info]dangerpudding — Yes!
[info]jkuroda — Yes!
[info]yanijc — Yes!
[info]tshuma — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you. Yes!
[info]bk2w — Yes!

and a tentative list of:
[info]unseelie23 — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]pyro_pixie_86 — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]noirem — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]ribbin — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]zikzak5 — Yes! (No email, but weather is looking poopy so I guess you can’t make it?)

If I get no response from the tentative people by tomorrow morning I will assume you to be a no. I will be showing up at around 9:50 because a reservation for nine people may take a while. I hope ya’ll show up pretty promptly at 10! 🙂

Very sweet.

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This morning we brought apples and grapes and donuts and bagels to our local polling place cause it’s an awesome thing for people to volunteer to do. When we got back from dinner tonight they left us a thank you note. Yay!

Things that are pissing me off today

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The fact that making a flight reservation has taken me over an hour. I am getting really pissed off. Now I am on hold being shuffled between various Indian customer service reps who cannot understand me reading off my reservation number as I try to add a lap infant. I am really really frustrated. And after 20 minutes Travelocity told me that I have to call Air New Zealand. Now Air New Zealand is telling me they can’t do anything, Travelocity has to do it.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And Shanna just woke up from her nap and is yelling. This took her whole goddamn nap.

Edited: I am up to 55 minutes of phone time after 40 minutes of fucking with websites. But I’m done

about etiquette

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I am so bad at taking constructive criticism, but I’m keeping an open mind. Some of the feedback on the letter is very helpful and I thank you all for offering opinions when I ask for one.

One point though for the folks who are telling me not to send such an email unless prompted, you are giving me etiquette feedback, not tactfulness feedback. It’s different. I am aware that according to tradition you should not send things like this unasked for. My family won’t take this amiss though. They are well acquainted with me being extremely forward and blunt and by now they just smile and nod. Noah’s family may think this is too forward but I don’t really care as long as they get the message. I would rather they think I am a bit on the rude side than to continue sending crap I don’t want. His family doesn’t know me and in the main they don’t know him either so they send random shit. Given that I have a problem with being sent tacky shit I will send to Goodwill as soon as I unwrap it I’d rather just say this stuff up front. If it means that a few of them decide I am awful and no longer send presents that would be jim-dandy-fine as well.

But ya’ll did give me some good tips on rewriting it to sound less demanding. I appreciate that. 🙂

warping my kid

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So far I have been trying pretty hard to ensure that the clothing Shanna has is at least mostly gender neutral. Some of it is pink stuff that I will happily put on a boy, so it is at least somewhat gendered by society’s standards. I feel a lot of conflict around buying her thoroughly girly stuff though. I don’t want to imprint on her that as a girl it is her job to be ruffly and fluffy and cutesy anymore than I will put a boy in some of the uberbutch shit that I have seen. I wonder how this will play out in the long run in terms of warping her.

(This comes up because I see very cute girly stuff and I consciously choose to not buy it because I don’t want to “send that message”. It’s weird.)

Ooft

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Yesterday was mostly really great. ribbin and I were not as thoroughly focused on prep for my comp as maybe I should have made us be, but instead we did general lit geeking. That was really awesome so I can’t complain. 🙂 Shanna was thoroughly good for the vast majority of the day until she completely lost it to hysteria an hour and a half before the train. That was… hard. We got through it though. We came home and went to bed a bit late, 8:40ish. She slept straight through till 4 without waking for boobie. w00t! We woke up and ate for half an hour, then pottied and tried to get her back to sleep again. Unfortunately my pesty daughter (Mark, I love that word) refuses to go back to sleep. So now she is being uberexcited to have her toys back. 🙂

7 days till the comp exam.

Studying

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I’m feeling pretty solid on American history and literary periods. I’m ok on British literary periods (there aren’t many [for this test]: Romantic, Victorian, “Modern”) but I’m still a bit weak on their history. Luckily, I was sent a handy dandy cheat sheet by my advisor. I should do a bit more looking at the world lit stuff–what are the common threads. I should do a brief review of literary criticism, but that won’t be too hard. That was the class I got an A in last semester. Maybe briefly review a couple of critics. And decide on two or three poems from each time period to be rock solid on. I’m thinking I’m going to cheat and go with whatever the anthology says is the most significant one.

I was able to study a bunch today while Shanna slept. I’m feeling a little less scared. I probably need a good solid 18 more hours of studying. That’s actually not that bad.

Awesome!

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We got a Leap Frog Alphabet Pal from a friend. It has several different modes–one of them “letter sounds.” Noah suggested making it say dirty words. It won’t! They have it blocked. When you have it sound out a dirty word it breaks to giggles and says, “That tickles!”

Oh man. That’s awesome.