Daniel yeah it's kinda WTF but the thing is some of the added people plus a couple of the people in my department (including my boss) are all really good friends and hang out a lot outside of work.

I probably haven't been as social as I could have, but, they are nice people but not my people. Especially considering there are issues of intolerance that I find hard to tolerate in the work place.

It seems like it would be low-key but historical and awesome.

Chances are you will not be snowed-in and miserable, at least.

The French Quarter Festival does stuff in the Quarter. [link]

City Park has a light festival called Celebration in the Oaks.

There's also a good chance that I'll be singing Christmas carols in a quartet somewhere in the city.

There's also a good chance that I'll be singing Christmas carols in a quartet somewhere in the city.

Ooh!

Google Translate renders it:

Im hellsten Tag in schwärzesten Nacht,
nichts Böses wird entkommen meine Augen Lassen Sie diejenigen,
die Anbetung des Bösen könnte,
Vorsicht meiner Macht ... Green Lantern's Licht!

And Babelfish:

Am hellsten Tag in der schwärzesten Nacht,
entgeht kein Übel meinem Anblick ließ die,
die evil's konnte,
meine Energie aufzupassen… Grünes Lantern's-Licht!

Grünes Lantern

You know, when I used to watch the Batman cartoon on German TV, "Der Fliedermausmann" never failed to crack me up.

That boy is going to be a total heart throb when he grows up. What a great smile.

I am this close to calling the copson my upstairs neighbor. This is the third Friday in a row that she has had a screaming, door slamming brawl with her daughter past midnight.

Oops.

German boy, 14, struck by meteor, lives.

What a dumb article. It didn't even say what kind of super powers the kid got.

::loves Scola::

One of my favorite memories from the DC F2F is sitting by the pool with Holli, talking about how fiction (specifically, comic books and BTVS/Angel) have screwed up our expectations of reality. My example was that I semi-believed I should have telepathic powers, thanks to Willow (and Raven from Teen Titans).

Holli's example was that, if she was ever in an accident where she fell into a vat of industrial waste (for example), if she died instead of getting cool super-powers, she'd be really pissed, because she'd be expecting the super-powers because of all the fictional examples that have gone before.

Like Meteor Kid.

::loves Scola also::

Seska, I don't know if I already said, but I'm so sorry about your extended family crapitude. And I'm just going to point at what the other folks said.

(I gave them a quadruple whammy, though. I was living in multiple sin with a girl and a black guy at the same time, while working as a stripper. This, shortly after I graduated from an ivy league college. My mom had a total prayer meltdown when I told her.)

...aaaand Zenkitty is my new hero.

::applauds::