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My sister lost her job a few weeks ago, which means *I* effectively lost my job a few weeks ago. Also? Everybody's going away for Thanksgiving and I'm bombing the house, so my holiday is largely going to suck. *sniffle*
Oh, well, that's what bookstores are for, right? Beats me why B&N would be open on Thanksgiving, but I'm pretty sure they are, so I might as well make the most of that.
Monday is our library day, and yesterday I managed to get Jenn to come along... and she didn't get to meet either of the usual librarians as they were out again. The substitute librarian wasn't very effective at getting the loud kids to shut up and stop being so loud during storytime (the normal ones aren't superheroes at this either, but they're better than he was). The kids weren't badly behaved, per se, they were just loud. Even when they shushed each other, they were loud!
Fascinatingly, though, I got to hear them use the word "flamed" in spoken conversation to mean a. insulting people in real life to their actual faces and b. having fun going back and forth insulting each other in real life. They were preteens. I was dying to go up and ask if they normally used this word in real life like this and if they'd first heard it spoken or if they'd first seen it on the internet or something, but mostly I just wanted them to shut up, so I didn't.
On our way home from the library, we stop at Subway and pick up two cookies and two boxes of juice, for the girls. (We don't stop at the ETG because the ETG is closed Mondays.) I usually get them oatmeal raisin, but sometimes they get chocolate chip and I just *tell* them it's oatmeal raisin. I ran off after leaving the library to go to a protest that turned out to be Tuesday, and somehow Ana managed to convince her mother that I *always* get them double chocolate chip instead! Oh well, Ana lost another tooth (it had been twisted sideways in her mouth, ugh!), so that deserved a celebration.
Oh, well, that's what bookstores are for, right? Beats me why B&N would be open on Thanksgiving, but I'm pretty sure they are, so I might as well make the most of that.
Monday is our library day, and yesterday I managed to get Jenn to come along... and she didn't get to meet either of the usual librarians as they were out again. The substitute librarian wasn't very effective at getting the loud kids to shut up and stop being so loud during storytime (the normal ones aren't superheroes at this either, but they're better than he was). The kids weren't badly behaved, per se, they were just loud. Even when they shushed each other, they were loud!
Fascinatingly, though, I got to hear them use the word "flamed" in spoken conversation to mean a. insulting people in real life to their actual faces and b. having fun going back and forth insulting each other in real life. They were preteens. I was dying to go up and ask if they normally used this word in real life like this and if they'd first heard it spoken or if they'd first seen it on the internet or something, but mostly I just wanted them to shut up, so I didn't.
On our way home from the library, we stop at Subway and pick up two cookies and two boxes of juice, for the girls. (We don't stop at the ETG because the ETG is closed Mondays.) I usually get them oatmeal raisin, but sometimes they get chocolate chip and I just *tell* them it's oatmeal raisin. I ran off after leaving the library to go to a protest that turned out to be Tuesday, and somehow Ana managed to convince her mother that I *always* get them double chocolate chip instead! Oh well, Ana lost another tooth (it had been twisted sideways in her mouth, ugh!), so that deserved a celebration.
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