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6/30/15

My mother contracted polio as a toddler. She has vague memories of her treatments, but I clearly remember my aunt telling the story of the day my mom came home and they all cried and cried in relief.

6/30/15

Funded!

6/30/15

UPDATE: It’s funded!

6/30/15

Watching these donations go up and up and up is SO MUCH MORE FUN than doing my real job today.

6/30/15

I’m so hoping someone comes in and donates another full $100K on top of what they’ve raised after they reach goal. (Don’t want them to do it now b/c I love the idea of all of us chipping in a few bucks, but it would be a great eff you to the bigoted donor trying to change GS policy.)

6/30/15

Donation made!

6/30/15

Your version of that advice is a lot clearer. :-)

6/30/15

So many questions:

6/30/15

Oh, Jesus. I cannot watch that Batkid trailer anywhere but at my house with a box of Kleenex. I’ll never make it through the movie.

6/30/15

Southern ladies do shade better than almost anyone. Britney came by the skill honestly.

6/30/15

Apparently she was on Friday Night Lights. I only know her as Captain America’s ex-gf.

6/30/15

Seriously. But how do you go from dating Captain America to Sean Penn? That’s just all kinds of wrong.

6/30/15

Is this kind of the way Charles Manson always ends up before a parole board even though we all know that man is never getting out of jail? (I have no concept of Canadian justice so please forgive the American comparison.)

6/30/15

I don’t remember hearing about this, but the United States has so many crimes of its own, we don’t need those of other countries to horrify us.

6/29/15

Controversial point: Hazelnut chocolate spread is only good in crepes.

6/29/15

We were lower-class when I was very young, and with subsequent promotions on my dad’s part, moved into the middle class / upper middle class. Because my father has a chronic illness, however, it was hard to gauge against other people because instead of going on vacation or getting a nicer car, Dad would have another…

6/29/15

(I lived in a weird town w a huge wage gap and went to the public schools where most people in my financial bracket went to private)

6/29/15

he’s shown to be hotheaded, entitled, unwilling to look beyond his own sense of righteousness

6/29/15

Very Important Question: Do I need to watch the first season of True Detective to understand the second, or are they completely independent of each other? I didn’t have HBO when the first season rolled around, and have been catching up on all kinds of other shows. I’m apparently two eps behind this season, but that’s…

6/29/15

I feel this is an HBO problem. I have trouble hearing a lot of the diologue on Game of Thrones, too, and then when there is an action sequence I blow my eardrums out.