And a good time was had by all
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- I love Bacchus! I love his partner! I LOVE HIS KID! I can’t wait to see him again this spring at the AAC conference!!
- I’m spending five hours tomorrow at Boo at the Zoo staffing a table. I hope it doesn’t rain. If you’ll be there between 3pm and 8pm, I’ll be there, too, doing time for one of my gigs. Stop by and say, “Boy, you look cold and/or bored!” You’ll probably be right!
- I think I’m going to be able to get back to my work-out schedule next week because my cold is definitely on its last legs. Thank GOD. I may have forgotten how to exercise.
- The kids are probably going trick-or-treating twice because for the first time in forever some of the suburbs are having it on a different night than others. So they’re going in my dad’s neighborhood the first night (because Pennie is going out of town for some scary clown concert thingie for Halloween proper and wants to be in on begger’s night) and this neighborhood the second night. I’m going to make them give up the stuff they don’t like to supplement our give-away stash.
- I’m on the closing shift at HighBall. That’s 11pm to 2am. Pity me. I’m never ever ever out (or even up) that late unless it’s at some Kristen-sponsored event (like her birthday or her annual holiday party). Maybe I should take a picture of Kristen along with me to give me strength!
- Friday morning I have a meeting to look at samples for catalog copy I’ll be writing for a couple of weeks. So it’s trick-or-treat Thursday night, meeting Friday morning, trick-or-treat II Friday night, Highball and then general collapse Saturday. I think. I need to look at my calendar.
- Brett is also working very long hours. We are like crazy people over here. Actually sanity seems to be maintaining itself fine but the dustbunnies and dirty dishes are very close to staging a coup.
- I keep meaning to write an entry about the racism in The Time Traveler’s Wife but can’t seem to find my copy. When I do, I will. Because Time Traveler’s Wife? Totally racist. That book makes me cringe as a writer - to reference Chekov, there are so many unused guns in the book that it reads to me like a self-indulgent daydream. The Violent Femmes dance-off? Just one of ‘em. Plus: Racist.
I have to say, I do not have recollection of race in Time Traveler’s Wife, just cringey class and boho fantasy life, but god that book was bad. I mean, impressively plotted–I could just imagine the wall of charts in her office–but so many people I know and like told me to read it, that it was their favorite book, blah blah blah, and then I read it and was like, you have GOT to be kidding, this sucks. (oh dear, is this another one of those comments that is going to make your readers hate me more?)
Ooh! I want to read what you have to say. I read it several years ago and I can’t recall racism (but I’m thick-headed) - what did I miss?
I *loved* TTTW and also don’t recall any racism … I read it at a time when I numbed myself with books, so I just devoured it. I was hardly conscious at the time :-/ Please do write about it, I’m so curious now!
Okay, so I’m glad I’m not the only one who went, “… really?” at racism in TTTW. Thinking about it, yeah, Etta and Kimy, but I’m sure I’m missing something.
We had such a great time yesterday! We went back for lunch today and he wanted to know where Maddie was. He threw an extra penny for her. I’m looking forward to my next trip back.
I also want to hear all about the racism in TTTW. You know, they’re filming they recently finished filming the movie…
Oh boy. I don’t remember thinking racism with Time Wife either. Please write it up! Secret Life of Bees - oh yeah. (poor little white girl needs many Black mammas to take care of her…) Racist. Haven’t seen the movie yet and I’m wondering how that turned out.
Cloudscome, I’m so glad you said that about Secret Life because I thought so, too!!