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[tarotgal]

Still feeling kind of sick. The coughing's still bad, not a good sign. I feel LOADS better, though.

Saw my first grade teacher at the grocery store tonight! It was the first time I'd been out since being sick and I looked like shit... but she's SUCH a sweetie. I loved her. She's one of my VERY favorite teachers of all time. Loved bears, she did. Anyway, she recognized me and my mother on the spot, lots of hugs and talking. Her son's in college now. GODS I feel old! She was pregnant with him at the end of my first grade year. Or... wait... maybe that was her daughter. Gah, I don't remember. Anyway, it makes me feel OLD! But she was so sweet. I was actually thinking I should go see some of my old teachers but didn't think they'd remember me (the ones that are still there, at least) so this was great. Even if I looked like shit. LOL

Worked my way through Queer as Folk episode 403 today. Emmett's been getting on my nerves a little. And I keep worrying that Michael's being too hard on Hunter. And I'm not getting enough of Mel & Linds... but otherwise, I'm LOVING it! Scared, adoring, shocked... but loving it. GODS it's a great show.
It's funny though (SLIGHT spoiler, but not really) A couple of days back my parents and I were talking over lunch about conservative talk radio guys. Mom heard one of them the other day calling gay people 'homos' and she was appalled. "Isn't that absolutely horrible?" my mother said. "I mean, it's just like calling a black people niggers." Which, of course, you can't do. So then we started talking about other racial groups and slurs used for them and how you'd get arrested or beat up easily for using half of them... but it's apparently fine to go on the public airwaves and say 'homo' all you like. Grrrr! Well, surprise surprise, they made that exact same argument in episode 402 when I watched it yesterday night! I had to pause the video and laugh at that. They sounded JUST like my family and I did days before. *sigh* I love this show. And I love my liberal parents who apparently have great timing :-) Mom laughed at the similarities when I told her about it today. And then I told her how the series is starting to go the route of the end of the UK series. (Where Stuart gets pissed and starts taking things into his own hands) Anyhoo... yeah... I like the series thus far. Going to have to wait at least 4 or 5 days to get episode 4, though. Ah well.

Watched Anne of Green Gables today. Started a Gilbert sneezefic *G* Am going to watch Anne of Avonlea when it's on PBS on Sunday to get in the mood (because I don't have it taped, for some strange reason- I think probably because it's always on) ANyway... the fic isn't going particularly well (which is why it's Saturday and I'm only a couple paragraphs into it) but I hope to have it done by/on Sunday. I had a hard time figuring out when to set it... and I don't like my choice but the fic sounds pretty so I feel stupid starting over from scratch. Which means I may have to write more than one. LOL

Let's see... nope, that's about it. Been watching Angel every day. It's rather nice now that I've seen every Charmed episode there is multiple times, and the same with Judging Amy. This gives me something on TNT to watch every day :-) And lots of courtTV is on in this house. I'm rather scared at the number of people who kill their spouces and then try to plead not guilty...

Oh, Reagan. Not my favorite president at all. I didn't go the 20 minutes north into DC to see him lying in state. Unlike some of the people who did and acted like tourists- wearing t-shirts and shorts to see a dead president? WTF? Where are some peoples' senses of respect? PISSED me off!!! It's not like I really liked him, but, seriously, that's SO disrespectful. I just didn't care to go, myself. He hurt a lot of programs and a lot of people. But I did watch a bit of the final funeral tonight, and I did cry when Nancy wouldn't leave his coffin. Poor thing. I totally felt for her then. Otherwise, I wasn't feeling much, I must admit. I just... I don't know. I hate optimists. LOL So optomistic republicans... and then some of the things he did/said.... yeah... I'm glad he's not suffering any more, though. A slow deterioration is the worst way I can imagine to go. Losing your mind and body and KNOWING it's happening... must have been so hard on him and especially on the family. So I'm glad that's over. And it was a very pretty funeral. I feel very sorry for his family's loss. I just... I didn't really like him as a president.

Okay... yeah, enough rambling. That's enough :-)

Comments

[smokeycat-430.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're feeling a little better.

Your first grade teacher liked bears,too,huh? So did mine. She had a little teddy bear everyone in the class would get to take home for a weekend sometime during the year and then write in a journal about what you and Huggy Bear did.I only now think it's funny that the bear's name was Huggy. Like Hug E. Bear on Starsky and Hutch LOL. Now she uses a different bear then the one that was used for my class. There must have several bears in the past which is probably good as a remember someone writing in their journal that their sister puked on the bear. Yeah...

Can't say much about the shows you've been watching but glad you're enjoying them.

I can say something about Reagan, though. I've been to his library three times now and it really is very beautiful place and they have neat traveling exhibits that come and go (one neat one was there last time I went was on Walt Disney). The first time I went there I didn't know he was going to be buried there but since I found out I have go to the place where they laid him and looked out over the hills, very beautiful. And I agree with you and think it's messed up to be so disrespectful to a man-your former Commander and Chief at that- who died. No matter what you thought of his politics I think every one should have at least a little respect for someone who has held such an office and some of the hatred that's been coming out along with the good sickens me. My grandmother has Alzheimer's and so I'm just personally saddened by what's happened. Reagan at least knew what was happening and said his good-byes, my grandmother didn't. It's pretty low to take shots at a man who can't really defend himself and didn't know what was going on.

That's just my two cents.
But, yeah, I guess like you said, enough rambling.

[tarotgal]

(in reference to your teacher and bears) Awww!! Sounds like an excellent excuse for using writing skills. We had a class stuffed bear, too! Ours was named Fuzzy. He sat in a basket on the desk of the best student for a week (didn't go home- I think probably the teacher guessed what might happen if he did)

As for Reagan... I honestly haven't seen or heard anything bad about him over this last week on tv/news except for a brief mention of protestors in D.C. Certainly nothing remotely as strong as hatred. I just find showing up to view a dead body in shorts and sunglasses to be rather stupid.
You'll never catch me at the Reagan Library, though, no matter how breathtaking the view is- and from all the coverage I saw of it yesterday and today it is indeed very beautiful. When out there visiting, my grandfather attempted to get my family to go a few times but we refused. My aunt lives in that valley, too. Though she's a bit closer to the water than the library so we didn't get to see her house clearly on the broadcast last night. It was nice to hear funny and sweet stories about him- I think the services were very well done for the most part (that Chaplain who talked about himself for 10 minutes got a bit annoying, but otherwise it was all very nice)...I just didn't agree with Reagan's actions as president. For me it's sort of a case of 'if he didn't earn my respect for what he did when alive, I'm certainly not going to say he deserves it now in death'. I'll respect him as a person, because generally he seemed to be a great one, just not for the way he led the country in general.

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother *hugs* Most of my relatives passed away very quickly, thank goodness. I can only imagine how hard an illness it is to deal with for everyone involved.

[smokeycat-430.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about you but here in the Bay Area people are really, really kind liberal crazy. And some (not all!) seem to want to find something to be angry about all the time and this just seemed like an excuse by listening to some of the things people were calling in and talking about on the local radio talk shows. But, yeah, it just kinda irks me as it gets old after a while. If you want to make a statement by protesting, you shouldn't do it all the time.

[(Anonymous)]

You're bay area? Me too!
~A

[tarotgal]

Well, as I'm a crazy ultra-liberal myself, I say more power to them! :-)
The problem is that there is always something to be angry about in this world. Grrrr! And if you don't protest all the time, it shows that one instance isn't worth fighting for the way others are. You can't just choose when to protest and when not to. You have to fight at every available opportunity in order to make the point strong, otherwise it's hypocritical.

I just don't think protesting at a funeral is a decent, human thing to do. And that goes for both sides. It's not like liberals are the only ones who make protests

[(Anonymous)]

Pishhhhh, Regan.

One word for everyone that thinked he was so great...

"Reganomics."

LOL. Okay, nuff with politics, that's one way to get me talking!

Glad that you're feeling better. They always manage to show up when its least conveniant, it's like, the rule.

I downloaded some episodes, although I'm still looking for ep 2 season 4, so I don't wanna watch them out of order, so I can't watch the rest, till I track down this one.

I may be scarce online for a few weeks because I'm talking an oriental vacation. Buisness and pleasure, should be a lot of fun. *G*

Hang in there,

~A

[tarotgal]

LOL Yeah, I noticed the "thinked he was so great..." bit and laughed a little. I could tell you were tired from your post, though. No worries :-)

ARG! Reaganomics. They still haven't been able to figure out if it actually ever even *could* work. LOL This last week would have made a BRILLIANT drinking game... if I drank. Take a shot every time newscasters mention Reaganomics... or "evil empire"... or California... or jelly beans... or hostages and good timing... or assasinations... or hostilities in the middle east... yeah, you get my point, I'll shut up now. LOL

Yeah, I had episode #3 download first... then 1... and it took forever to get #2. But I'm only on about 2 hours a night. So I've seen episodes 1-3 but 4-7 are taking a LONG while to download *sigh* Ah well. I'm used to it. I downloaded nearly all of Stargate when I started watching that series. And every season of QAF so far which is how I started watching it to begin with. So I'm used to the wait for downloads. DON'T watch them out of order, though!!! Resist the temptation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So much happens in every episode that it's just not worth it! :-) *pets the series*

Have a splendid vacation!!!

[(Anonymous)]

OOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGG.

Did I just say, "thinked he was so great?"
Oh god.

Excuse my ex-con english please! LOL. It's past midnight, I just drove an hour and a half, and I woke up at six after just 4 hours of sleep! LOOOOL. Please forgive me for that one!

HAHAHA.

~A

[(Anonymous)]

I think I need to sleep.

~A

[(Anonymous)]

We have several people in my neck of the woods that seem to either be a) obessive about watching All the funeral stuff or b) really angry and protesting that Regan's funeral was even on TV, or that Anyone felt sad.

I didn't go to either extreme- I heard about it, I had mixed feelings. But I figure- just let the former president be buried- and then go onto having whatever opinion of him that you have, whether that he is a god *rolls eyes* or the most demonic human the world has ever known * :P *.

Sorry- guess I'm just pretty skeptical about almost All of the presidents.

I am hoping that the idea of a living memorium about the stem-cell research gets put into play. Hopefully that will benefit many people- and frankly I don't care Who's name is on it.

Glad to hear that you are feeling better. :)

tma