Weekend update
Mar. 24th, 2003 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenI am insanely tired. This is what I get for not going to bed early last night when I had to get up early in the morning to drop my car off at the dealer (I want it to get a checkup before I do the road trip to Connexions). Fortunately I don't have much by way of work but still, I hate feeling this brain dead. And of course the kicker is that a nap would fix it but I'm stuck at the office so bleh.
Watched the Oscars. Snarked about it on LJ (waves to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zyre and wolfling) Glad Eminem won. Shame he didn't perform. Was very glad for Michael Moore's speech. Steve Martin was fine in skill but damn were some of the jokes too "jokey". Like you could practically see Bruce Vilanch (osr) standing behind him and patting himself on the back for his cleverness.
Or whoever was doing Bruce's job if it wasn't him.
How much do you wanna bet one of the first things Nicole Kidman did was call up Tom Cruise and go "HA HA HA HA!!!"?
Spent time with the family yesterday. Had nice bonding time with my nicknameless neice. I swear, when she's all well-behaved I start thinking of how I could settle down with someone and start raising a kid in the next few years or so. Of course a lack of a spouse and a sperm donor definitely puts a crimp in those chances at the moment ;) Although I do find it interesting that when I randomly try to picture this, I'm seeing myself with a wife instead of a husband. Too much Melanie and Lindsey on QAF or my subconscious trying to tell me which one would make me happier for the long-term? You make the call.
Sis-in-law, who is pregnant again as I've said, revealed last night that she had two miscarriages in the past year. You know it's funny how I didn't know about these kids at the time and, obviously, now will never meet them but I still feel a little twist in my gut for them. Like I miss not getting a chance to meet them, or something. Guess that's the human animal for you, huh? You can love someone even if you never met them.
Sis-in-law and I also bonded over our anti-war sentiments. It made a nice cleansing conversation after last week's conversation with Mom. I got the impression that sis-in-law was happy to find a fellow peacenik as well.
Of course the truly sad/scary thing was when we talked about Bush. Sis-in-law is German - as in "worked for the UN" German, not German-American - and she said it was like Germany in the late 1930s. Dude - if you've got a German saying the president is a little too much of a psycho dictator how sad are we? She and I were also in agreement that the fear isn't just for now, but for the fact that 2 years from now we've got no guarantee that he'll be out of office. It wouldn't surprise either of us if in 2 years Dubya fabricated some reason to not even have elections at all. Save him the bother of having to steal a second one. I mean it's one thing to sit here and go "we can elect him out, even his dad looked like a shoo-in 2 years away from his reelection campaign" but, well again - wouldn't surprise us if Bush figured out how to get rid of the elections.
Assasinations anyone? ;)
Watched the Oscars. Snarked about it on LJ (waves to
zyre and wolfling) Glad Eminem won. Shame he didn't perform. Was very glad for Michael Moore's speech. Steve Martin was fine in skill but damn were some of the jokes too "jokey". Like you could practically see Bruce Vilanch (osr) standing behind him and patting himself on the back for his cleverness. Or whoever was doing Bruce's job if it wasn't him.
How much do you wanna bet one of the first things Nicole Kidman did was call up Tom Cruise and go "HA HA HA HA!!!"?
Spent time with the family yesterday. Had nice bonding time with my nicknameless neice. I swear, when she's all well-behaved I start thinking of how I could settle down with someone and start raising a kid in the next few years or so. Of course a lack of a spouse and a sperm donor definitely puts a crimp in those chances at the moment ;) Although I do find it interesting that when I randomly try to picture this, I'm seeing myself with a wife instead of a husband. Too much Melanie and Lindsey on QAF or my subconscious trying to tell me which one would make me happier for the long-term? You make the call.
Sis-in-law, who is pregnant again as I've said, revealed last night that she had two miscarriages in the past year. You know it's funny how I didn't know about these kids at the time and, obviously, now will never meet them but I still feel a little twist in my gut for them. Like I miss not getting a chance to meet them, or something. Guess that's the human animal for you, huh? You can love someone even if you never met them.
Sis-in-law and I also bonded over our anti-war sentiments. It made a nice cleansing conversation after last week's conversation with Mom. I got the impression that sis-in-law was happy to find a fellow peacenik as well.
Of course the truly sad/scary thing was when we talked about Bush. Sis-in-law is German - as in "worked for the UN" German, not German-American - and she said it was like Germany in the late 1930s. Dude - if you've got a German saying the president is a little too much of a psycho dictator how sad are we? She and I were also in agreement that the fear isn't just for now, but for the fact that 2 years from now we've got no guarantee that he'll be out of office. It wouldn't surprise either of us if in 2 years Dubya fabricated some reason to not even have elections at all. Save him the bother of having to steal a second one. I mean it's one thing to sit here and go "we can elect him out, even his dad looked like a shoo-in 2 years away from his reelection campaign" but, well again - wouldn't surprise us if Bush figured out how to get rid of the elections.
Assasinations anyone? ;)
