You know, a lot of people have commented on JKR's habit of "telling instead of showing"

And they're right, this is a big flaw in her writing (among other things, I suspect it's part of the reason those books are so damn thick...)

However, there is at least one thing I've noticed she didn't quite do, and I was a bit impressed at it as it'd slipped under my radar. On the other hand, I do tend to be late to these things, so maybe everybody's noticed it already and I'm the last one to know.
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So, am I just really late to grasp the obvious?

Hey, anything to get that idiot out of office...

I forgot about this the first time I saw it. Thanks, rainbow_goddess!

Okay, so, lemme get this straight (so to speak)...

Girls can wear pants all the time without becoming lesbians, but it's not okay to allow boys to wear a skirt, ever, because they won't understand the concept of "special occasion" and might grow up to become one of those hoomoos and, I don't know, beat up on straight kids. It is, however, okay to encourage your young kids to dress up in camoflauge like soldiers, because it's all right if they kill people, so long as they aren't gay.

Got it, thanks.

*munchmunchmunch*

Fried pita. One of God's great foods.

Okay, so we didn't have pita and I had to settle for who-knows-how-old tortilla. The point still stands.

In which I ramble. A lot.

Ana had been cranky cranky cranky, crying and fussing, and I couldn't figure out why. And then I realized "holy crap, you should've had a nap an hour ago! More!" so I chuck her in the crib and she immediately shuts up (and eventually falls asleep).

I didn't know for sure that she was asleep, but I really had to pee. And to do that, I had to walk past her room with no door. But if she saw me, she was sure to freak and start crying. What to do, what to do.... I know! I can crawl past the door, right?

As I'm crawling, it occurs to me that I move the right arm with the left leg, and vice versa. But why? I know that not all mammals do that - some of them move right-right, left-left. In fact, we had a somewhat brain damaged kitty once who spent several days falling over every time she tried to walk. I eventually figured out that she was trying to move both legs on one side first, then the legs on the other (she did recover from this part, thankfully).

So I try that. Huh. Interesting. Not especially easy, though.

And Ana was asleep, so I just got up and walked to the bathroom. No use being silly, right?