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I'm so very sorry for your loss. Foo Foo looks very friendly!

I heard from a former colleague today. She got married and moved back to Japan over 10 years ago. That was nice. I also got a grant on Friday that I've applied for three times.

I'm rewatching season 5 and just finished 2001. I can't believe I never really thought about it but were they not even trying to get the ambassador back?

How long are you going? Shoes? Toothpaste? Moisturizer. Sunscreen? Jacket?

I found her interesting up to about season 5, maybe? I often felt she was, or trying to be like her father. Without the intelligence and the ability for emotional restraint. Lancaster family over everything without actually caring for the children as people.

I recommend trying Facebook Purity. It's a browser plugin (I don't use the app). I don't know if it works with all phones and browsers but when it does, it cuts down on quite a lot of those unnecessary recommendations. https://www.fbpurity.com

He's got quite an impressive list of credits over the years.

I'm so sorry to hear. I hope you will soon be able to think about the good times without being too sad. You did everything a great cat parent can do.

By keeping my processed food under control, I know how much salt (or sugar) is in my food most of the time. Unsalted butter, but putting salt on eggs, doing my own salad dressing, very few condiments, no pre-done barbecue sauces, etc. The amount of sugar and salt in those is ridiculous once you look it up.

I just finished this in one sitting on a grey holiday. The acting was phenomenal and young Elias was heartbreaking. Being manipulated by the cult that he himself created so he could get to that point. I also really loved that it took very little to change his relationship with Polly, which made him change altogether, while he was trapped in his original scheme. I love time travel when it's done well and I prefer loop stories, so this was wonderful. I'm not sure why only Defoe was split (or possibly Maplewood) but I don't really care all that much.

I'm sure there will be some people finding a reason to blame it all on her.😉

I do remember your creepy colleague. Congratulations!

Usually municipal water is much better controlled than bottled water. So, yes, just refill. It will be cheaper too. Although I remember Toronto water being not all that tasty. At least in the neighborhoods I lived. Still, it was better than the water in Ottawa. That was nasty. He'll still get all the microplastics from the bottle if that's what he wants.

Since I'm a linguist by trade, I have to add a correction as the beleaguered minority. Descriptivist linguists don't think teaching grammar is useless. There is nothing I would love to see more of in schools is grammar teaching. Just not, you know, teaching kids that having prepositions at the end of a sentence is wrong and similar nonsense. I love teaching my students that English is quite interesting in that it allows such a thing under certain circumstances. THAT is grammar teaching from a descriptivist's perspective. That formal language has certain conventions and spoken language has other conventions. That there are instances where you can leave the preposition at the end but probably wouldn't in formal writing and there are instances where you HAVE to leave it at the end, regardless of the style of writing. Where you have to leave it: I wish I remembered where she was FROM. Most speakers would be unlikely to say: I wish I remembered FROM where she was. Where you cannot leave it behind: I can tell you IN what order the words go. But not for most variants of English: I can tell you what order the words go IN. I don't know what kind of descriptivists this person talks about, but maybe it's better to talk to a linguist instead. There is teaching grammar as a part of human language and there is teaching the tools of grammar to write. These are very different things. And they have very little to do with the difference between prescription and description. English majors and educators tend to confuse the two. And often make students worry so much about this grammar monster, they forget that they have grammar that they use every day. Language doesn't exist without a rule system.

Can't it be both? Personally, I am superhero-fatigued to the point that even when something good came along, I probably wouldn't watch it. The last one I enjoyed was most of Wanda Vision and the last Spiderman movie. But I watched a few movies since and I was utterly bored with them. And I skipped the possibly good second Spiderverse animated one. These days, whenever I see a CGI fight of some sort in any movie, I'm outta there.

This clip tells me most of what I need to know about gendered behavior in children and how it develops. It's mostly adults who impose it at a very early age as soon as they know they're looking at a girl or a boy. You see it in small things like the stranger who will tell a mother on the street how pretty their girl baby or toddler is while they would not say that if they're told it's a boy. Even those of us who try are often trapped in our own gendered world and behavior. It happens so early we don't even remember it happened. And as adults it's so ingrained that we barely notice doing it. We talk differently to them and we treat them differently in so many little things. Even us tomboys become aware eventually that we're not "appropriate" and change behavior to some degree. I do hope the discussion about gender continues, so the next generation of parents will have an increasing awareness.

I've seen threads here where posters incessantly keep repeating themselves, constantly arguing against someone else's opinion even after warnings. I don't want to mention which ones but one was shut down, another was for a TV show that doesn't air anymore, so the thread itself quieted down. But I can see that some shows may be prone to that kind of behaviour. I'm guessing that it's not about voicing an opinion about the TV show but how that is voiced and possibly repeated constantly. And if it's a reality TV show, actual people get attacked in various ways, not fictional characters. That can get uncomfortable when repeated constantly. Granted, I don't watch this stuff, so I don't actually participate in those but, giving the moderators the benefit of doubt, I'm guessing that is something they want to shut down if posters can't reign it in. Just to give a hypothetical example. There is a difference between snarking on a fictional TV character's dress sense vs snarking on a real person's weight gain.

If that were true, you would find pronunciations like that around the country, not just in one town. And with other words too.

About saying no. I'm watching a documentary on Netflix: Feminists, what were they thinking? and Jane Fonda says about all the times she said yes because she didn't know how to say no. "I've only known for 10 years that no is a complete sentence". The film is from 2018.

Women are still accused being not real one way or another. Having short hair, wearing this or that, no makeup, having no children, staying single.....being a lesbian probably gets you also told you're not "real", never even mind transwomen. Any time someone accuses people of being not a real something or other, I always wonder WTF that is supposed to mean. Unless there is something like a passport documenting membership of "real group", it's an entirely pointless accusation. And if we are still debating how wearing pants is not womanly, then we are really still debating on the level of about 100 years ago.

I recommend taking the Covid test a few times. When I had it last summer, it only showed a positive on the fourth day after I started having mild symptoms. A negative result doesn't necessarily mean you don't have it. By the time it registered positive, I had a full-blown fever.

River's character for me was often saved by Alex Kingston's performance for me who managed to shave off some of the ridiculousness Moffat made her say and do and managed to imbue her with something more than a weird combination of hero-worship and "I'm so sexy because I have a gun" weirdness. A collection of Sci-fi trope-ish female characteristics with a gun. Still, it's difficult not to roll my eyes sometimes. Both Amy and River were interesting to start with but he never made them compelling characters with a rich inner life. A compendium of catch-phrases and tropes whose life revolved around the Doctor. More so with Amy but even River.

My cats ignore the toy box. It's like the toys don't exist when in the box. The box is like an alternate universe. I have to take them out and then they go Oh! A toy! How nice! I'll play with it a bit! Or not, depending on ... I don't know what.

I have a cat who eats fast and then tries to steal from the other. My solution was to get the thief a slow-eating plate to give the other one time to finish. Also, I keep the slow one' eating on the counter and the fast one on the floor. So even when she's fast, she needs to get there and I can see her sneaking up on the other ones (most times). They're quite used to it and are mostly out of teh habit of stealing. Maybe get them used to eating in different rooms? Or at different times? Or put Ginny's bowls somewhere that really only allows one cat access? I'm thinking a tunnel-like structure? With everything I've tried my cats to do, giving them a "better" or distracting habit-forming works probably best in the long run.

I've been watching some reviews and retrospectives and learned that Matt Smith took some time to decide if he should leave. I wonder if that affected the writing in season 8. I always felt that Moffat wrote like for Eleven in season 8. Or it was simply he couldn't switch gears until later. I wonder if that's why I didn't click with Twelve. I loved all NuWho doctor's before. Or maybe it simply was Clara who made me clench and cringe from her first appearance and that never went away.