I'm having vegetarian lasagna right now (AIFG) but I'm going to Trader's Joes later for buffalo (although I'm sure they mean bison) burgers.

TJ's is awesome for veggie options, isn't it?

And, yay! Stargazing and cooking together is good, good, good.

I have no new tag. I'm toying with the worst piece of bad writing in the bad novel excerpt Tom linked to in Natter this morning, "Diminutive and deferential, with a forehead of life-long suffering," but I may go in the opposite direction and browse through IMDB's page of Midnight Run quotes.

Wow it's been too long since I saw Midnight Run. All I remember is "you two are the worst bounty hunters ever!"

"I got two words for you: Shut the fuck up." It's a classic.

They didn't stick her in a home when she was a child, she went everywhere her family went. There was general knowledge, I believe, that the one daughter was a bit "slow" or "different".

The book that I just found says that her parents didn't tell anyone about her diagnosis, and when anyone asked why she wasn't participating in the conversations or games as much as her siblings were, her parents would just say that she was shy.

Wow it's been too long since I saw Midnight Run. All I remember is "you two are the worst bounty hunters ever!"

Wow it's been too long since I saw Midnight Run. All I remember is "you two are the worst bounty hunters ever!"

"Make yourself a sandwich, drink a glass of milk... Do some fuckin' thing. "

"You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil. Do you understand me?"

"Jack? 'What?' When do you think you we're gonna get to L.A.? 'None of your fucking business!' Well, I have to go to the bathroom. 'Shut the fuck up!'"

"Don't say a word to me, Sidney, don't say a fucking word to me. I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head."

God I love that fuckin' movie.

According to Lawrence Leamer's The Kennedy Women, Rosemary started kindergarten at the same school the rest of the children went to, Edward Devotion School. Her teacher wasn't able to pass her, so she stayed behind a year and by the end of that second year in kindergarten, her teacher gave her passing C's, but they were passing with the understanding that Rosemary wouldn't be going on to first grade. She'd been given the Binet test and put in what was, at that time, termed the "moron" category, which was above "idiot" and "imbecile" (all terms used by the scientific community in the early 20s). In other words, she was estimated at having an IQ somewhere around 70. She could have been put in a special class that the Brookline, Mass schools offered, but that was a huge social stigma at the time. So Rosemary was largely educated by tutors, governesses and nuns.

When the Kennedys moved to New York in 1928, Rosemary went to Riverdale Country School with her sisters, being admitted to the same class as Eunice.

When she was fifteen, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Convent in Providence Rhode Island but there, she worked exclusively with two nuns and another teacher brought in specifically for her. But basically, by that point, she had hit a fourth grade level of achievement and couldn't really go much further.

When they were in England, while Joe was ambassador in the thirties, she was sent to a Montessori school. Basically, that's all I was able to find in Leamer's book.

"Don't say a word to me, Sidney, don't say a fucking word to me. I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head."

And on that note, [Link]

Whoa. In the book that I just found, I found out that not only did Joe not consult Rose before having the lobotomy done on Rosemary, he also didn't tell her afterwards. Rose was away at the time, and when she got back, Joe basically just told her that Rosemary had gotten worse and he'd put her in a good home. (He did pay a ton of money to this place -- he had her own house built for her on the grounds of the hospital, and paid for two nuns to be her full-time caregivers.) Rose didn't find out what had actually happened until 20 years later, after Joe had a stroke, and she was able to go visit Rosemary for the first time since then and figured it out.

Ouch. Letter from Joe to the nuns taking care of Rosemary:

I am still very grateful for your help ... after all, the solution of Rosemary's problem has been a major factor in the ability of all the Kennedys to go about their life's work and try to do it as well as they can.