Oh jeez, Tom. "Worst ever" in a good way?

Right now, I just want to go smash things.

I just want to go smash things.

I suspect this is not the neutral-to-normal sensation it is when I experience it. I'm sorry, Tom. As worthless as that may be.

One of my oh-my-god-fucking-nasty! nightmares is rat swarms, and it prevents Ratatouille from being totally cute to me. Now I know when to avoid India.

Day after the funeral. My grandmother fell down. Good news is that it seems like nothing is broken.

Today was supposed to be the day we all relaxed.

What does it say about me that watching CM calms me down?

That you're one of us?

I learned today it's a good thing I don't teach elementary school. One hour volunteering in Sara's classroom during "centers" and I was ready to blow. They do. not. shut. up.

One of my oh-my-god-fucking-nasty! nightmares is rat swarms, and it prevents Ratatouille from being totally cute to me.

Man just reading that made my scalp crawl. I can never see that movie!

I totally read that as "Since I am cooking dope" and thought, "Scrapy! Step away from the cough medicine."

Oh thank, doG! Not just me.

They do. not. shut. up.

My friend T was telling me how her aunt and uncle are coming into Milwaukee for the week, and on Wednesday they're sending down their three teenaged kids on the train to Chicago to spend the holiday weekend with T. This is the first time the kids have been on a train by themselves, and both their parents and T are a bit worried how they'll behave. I told her that they'll probably just chatter a lot on the train, but they're too old to be running up and down the aisle (they're all in high school).

I'm sorry, Tom. Wish I could make it better, somehow.

You too, Dana.

I wonder how often that Israeli procedure ends up stopping people on the autism spectrum or with other disabilities that make them behave "oddly."

I don't know if things immediately jump to "stopping" -- I assumed it's more "let's talk to that person a little more and doublecheck their ID," or something else that 1) is still part of SOP and 2) isn't humiliating and invasive. Because the same thing would also happen to people acting oddly because they're afraid of flying, or they're tired, or whatever. That's fine.

Well, it's not "fine," but at least that's a more reasonable process. It's the equivalent of a good cop checking in with "Everything okay here?" when something looks odd. Profiling based on behavior will turn up plenty of false positives. As long as you & security both know that, I think it's okay; knowing there's some reason behind it makes a big difference, at least to me.

I've heard from more than one friend that they had to have an extensive interview when leaving Israel as a young American woman travelling alone, but not that they missed their flights or anything. But that's a profile they pay special attention, to, apparently. (Or did 5-10 years ago.)