@Ty
Well I finally got your first book and I will get around to reading it sometime ...
SHINY HAPPY THREAD!
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Noelle
MemberYay, Ty! I would also like to read your book while camping. We're going in a few weeks. We've never taken the children camping, so I don't know if they will allow me to ignore them and read. My husband has these memories of his halcyon days, tent camping with his family for weeks around the country. My family vacations involved my dad (who divorced mom when I was 4) borrowing us for a weekend to do a roller-coaster-filled amusement park for a weekend, and then back home.
I would just read it now, but I got 533 pages of Cutting For Stone sitting there from the library. It's staring at me, and I'm ignoring it because it looks all serious. Zooming around space and seeing what happens with the vomit zombies sounds like way more fun. But the library didn't have your book, so I will have to buy it.
Custy, nobody reads those things. You want to read non-fiction? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean. Them's a good read.
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UrsaMinor
MemberIt's Independence Day here in the U.S., and I am looking forward the annual American ritual of consuming way too much food at the family 4th-of-July barbecue. Today's menu includes (but is not necessarily limited to) potato salad, macaroni salad, bean salad, grilled chicken breasts, venison hot dogs, beef cheeseburgers, roasted red peppers, and of course ice cream. I think there will be sliced watermelon in there somewhere too.
Life is good, if a wee bit fattening. :)
Posted 10 months ago # -
Noelle
MemberOr is it an any excuse for a party thing? You got a bunch of shrimp and beer, so you glance at the calendar to see a pre-printed by the manufacturer "Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland)" there. And you don't know what it is, but sounds like as good a reason as any to fire up the barbie.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Len
Member@julie42: What's wrong with Butlins? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlins_Redcoats)
Posted 10 months ago # -
UrsaMinor
MemberMaybe it's like Cinco de Mayo for them.
Probably. Here in upstate New York, May 5 is treated like the Mexican kid brother of July 4. We don't shoot off fireworks, but it's as good an excuse as any to eat burritos and knock back a few margaritas and a Dos Equis or two.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Kodie
MemberAll the little simple things I am happy for. $1 for 100/pk. of plastic disposable gloves - puts me in charge, not the apartment. This is like Custador and the thrift stores, but me at the Dollar Tree. :) It rocks for cleaning supplies you're just too disgusted to use twice and don't need to be of any lasting quality.
Posted 10 months ago # -
UrsaMinor
MemberI just got asked to do a gig as assistant editor for a new online lit fic magazine. Essentially it's the grunt job of going through the submissions slushpile and keeping the truly horrible stuff away from the chief editor. So I spent a good chunk of this past weekend with the electronic equivalent of a red pen earning myself starvation wages by telling people what's wrong with their manuscripts. The chaff-to-wheat ratio is very high.
Will the magazine fly? My gut instinct says no. Will I take the money and run? Hell, yes!
I should have some business cards made up that say "UrsaMinor, Literary Prostitute".
Posted 10 months ago # -
blotonthelandscape
MemberMy friend (who I used as in another thread) whose 1 y-o daughter has Hurler Syndrome, has been told that they've found a 10/10 match for a bone marrow transplant! She's already started enzyme replacement a few weeks ago and is already showing improvements (e.g. her teeth are starting to come through, and her muscle tone is improving).
Apparently 100% matches are incredibly rare, and significantly increase the chances of surviving the dangerous procedure. It's still traumatic (involves chemo, and living in a bubble for 3-4 months), but the fact that she may have an almost normal neurological development, and significantly improved physiological development, is wonderful.
This is so new that there is no precedence for knowing how this will extend her life expectancy, or improve the quality of her life past age 10 (normally children with this disease have died before their 10th birthday), only that it will improve her life. When my wife was doing paed OT placements back in 2005, the kids she worked with who had MPS type diseases had no hope; most were vegetables by age 6.
Hope you're all on your local bone marrow registers! You could be that person!
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@Blot: Been on the blood, bone-marrow and organ donor registers for years, mate.
In other news, I'm not going to be around much for the next couple of weeks. I'm currently in the Land That Broadband Forgot, preparing for my wedding. Honeymoon after that. Be back in a couple of weeks.
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