Sophmore year in High School I took endless shit because we were studying Merchant of Venice and I was bewildered... having never heard of the sterotype of Jews being cheap.
It is such a shock when you encounter this stuff for the first time if your parents and tiny circle of youth hasn't prepared you. When I consider it, I hope it always continues to shock me.
One of the things about being an older parent is seeing how differently my kids see the world. They have a hard time even believing that there was ever such a thing as White Only rights. When I was on a jury in Fort Lauderdale the judge was telling us about how only men were allowed to serve on the jury when he was first on the bench. (he noted that we giggled more) My kids don't get why there is the fuss about gays getting married.
My mom was a kid in the depression, born in 1921. I was a kid in the 50s and 60s. My kids born in the 90s. Our eyes see things in different ways while our hearts have pretty much been on the same page.
We have YouTube evidence that a Killer Whale bitch slaps and kills a Great White Shark with minimal effort.
Didn't the shark tagging biologists find out that a killer whale offing a shark also made all the other sharks for dozens of miles around suddenly remember that they left the oven on at home and swim doubletime for a few days without rest to turn it off?
I had an incident of the invisible-next-to-attractive-friend thing today, as two different girls came to chat up Smoking Hot Bartender while blithely ignoring my existence and the fact that we'd been in mid-conversation. But there are benefits as well as drawbacks, since my gaydar accuracy increases to approximately 100% when in the company of such a friend—I just have to watch other guys' reactions to him.
mac is doing animal wars and wants to know what can beat a whale?
Well, baby whales can get eaten by a shark. But generally the answer is humans to that question. I all nerve-jangly right now. Overtired i'd guess.
mrphf.
Awake, and Tom has no coffee.
a) Tom's awake now, so coffee soon
b) It's frigging gorgeous here today.
Poor up-early Lee!
I am such a nerd. I finally gave in and subscribed to the NYTimes crossword puzzle online last night, and I've since done M-F of last week, and also most of today's Sunday puzzle.
Crosswords make me feel stoopid. I can't finish a third of the Monday puzzle.
I sent Lee off on her own to obtain coffee. I'm not sure that was a good idea.
I figure if I'm going to tell people I'm in training to be a competitive crossword... doer (which I have, recently), I'd better step it up! I don't think it's a matter of smartness, just a certain kind of skill and knowledge.
I sent Lee off on her own to obtain coffee. I'm not sure that was a good idea.
I survived! and now I have coffee.
I never got into crosswords, because it was always my mom and sister's thing.
eta: Theodosia, insent.
