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08:52 pm
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Dear Northwest Airlines,
You suck! You can't even spell my name!!!
When I got married I decided to hyphenate my name. I am sorry that this concept is too 'out there' for you. I figured I could use my old name professionally and my married name for family-related stuff. Little did I know seven years ago that in the wake of 9/11, Congress would pass a law requiring me to make all airplane reservations in the name that appears on my government-issued ID. So now I have to change my World Perks account, but your website won't accept hyphens. So it keeps telling me that my name on the reservation and on my World Perks account don't match.
I've been on hold with two customer service reps, and neither one of them can put my name into the system, either! Idiots! Nincompoops! Stupidheads!!!
Best regards,
xxxx xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx
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10:09 pm
[Link] | "The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times may raise questions about its effectiveness, as well as about assertions by Bush administration officials that their methods were used under strict guidelines."
I am surprised that I get so little comfort from finally having some things come to light.
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08:47 pm
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Not-So-Happy Easter
I may have mentioned this before, but I live in a pre-capitalist country in which everything is closed on Good Friday, not to mention Easter Sunday. Seriously, even the 24-hour A&P.
Also, yesterday I had to drive across town to get matzo meal to make matzo ball soup. Apparently, I do not live on the Jewish side of town.
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08:34 pm
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Happy Easter
I don't celebrate Easter, but I do have a certain fondness for Peeps. Fellow peeplovers, knock yourselves out.
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10:20 pm
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It's ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) peaseblossom's fault
You've turned me into a Sarah Haskins superfan. Have you seen this?
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03:51 pm
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Best Idea of the Day
The Catholic Church has brought back the sale of indulgences.
Just because it didn't fly in 1517, doesn't mean that it won't work today.
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10:21 am
[Link] | Wow. I didn't really believe this could happen. I've had so many strange new feelings over the past 24 hours. ( Read more... )
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04:21 pm
[Link] | I just voted!
My Massachusetts ballot arrived today and I wasted no time filling it out and putting it in the mail.
After last night's debate, I needed no extra encouragement to place my vote against "Joe" the "Plumber". Or maybe that should be "Joe" the "tax-paying" "plumber".
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02:27 pm
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narratology and the toddler mind
A couple of months ago I went to the mother of all education conferences, the AERA, where I saw a book that was just one researcher's recordings of their conversations with their child at bedtime. Now that the Ukelele is really starting to speak, like in sentences and paragraphs, it is cool to see that you really can write a whole book on one child's journey in language acquisition.
The past couple of weeks, the Ukelele seems especially interested in narrative. This is really interesting because I am currently reading some theories of narrative. Many linguists, anthropologists, philosophers, and educators believe that human thought naturally develops along narrative lines. In other words, we need to make up stories to make sense of the world. However, these narrative-making processes must be learned through social interactions because they develops along culturally specific lines.
I see this playing out as I read the Uke her bedtime stories. For one thing, she is increasingly interested in books with a plot and some form of conflict (i.e. Olivia) over books that just depict and describe objects (i.e. Goodnight Moon). This is interesting b/c she often does not understand the plot, but she requests these books nonetheless. Then she asks a lot of "why" questions. Specifically she points to characters and asks, "Why angry?" or "Why sad?" She's like, what's this character's motivation? How am I to understand cause and effect in human interaction? Perhaps she is also trying to make sense of human emotions by asking, Under what circumstances is an adult likely to get angry? Under what circumstances is it permissible for me to get angry?
Also, she has recently acquired the word maybe, and she deploys it often. She seems to be testing out narratives to see if they are acceptable to her audience (me). Sunday we were in the car driving home from a nursery on the edge of town. On our way out there we had passed a field with some horses.
Uke: Maybe we see horses!
Me: Do you think we'll see horses?
U: Maybe.
M: Look out the window and tell me if you see horses.
*after a minute or so* U: Maybe horses go Florida.
M *puzzled*: You think the horses went to Florida?
U: Maybe. Go Florida airport.
M: Maybe.
Actually, we did pass the airport on the way out to the nursery, so it was interesting that she put the horses together with another notable landmark from our journey. Then she added soemthing from her own past experience - going to the airport to get on a plane to Florida. Then she tested it all out on me with a "maybe" to see if I would buy into her new, original narrative.
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02:38 pm
[Link] | German expressionist Project Runway!!!!!!! OMG the Heidi Klum and Michael Kors are hysterically spot-on.
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