Urg, being sick.

I'd been nice and healthy for ages, then I spent this weekend being sick. Didn't help that it was broiling hot and that none of the trains were working, or that everyone in the city had the same idea I had, which was to go to the air-conditioned bookstore.

Drippy nose, sinus infection, and I couldn't think. Ick.

I'm feeling much better now, though, and I'm not watching the kid (because she's upstate, not because I'm neglecting her), so that's okay.

Wish I'd felt better yesterday, or the day before, though.

And now I have a semi-serious question.

Oftentimes, when I go on the boat during the weekend, it's like the entire Hassidic population (or at least, Orthodox Jewish and I *think* they're Hassidic) of NYC has decided to make an excursion to Staten Island. Which has led me to make one observation: All the time, in these large families, the girls are dressed alike (and sometimes the boys too).

I asked my mom, and she said that in order to find dresses that fit that idea of modesty, you either have to make them yourself, generally using the same pattern for everyone, or you buy them and snatch up as many sizes as you can when you do. Which I can believe, considering what most *other* people seem to think is acceptable for dresses for little kids...

But why all alike? Do the girls only have one dress each? That can't be.

This leads to another question. Is it just that I notice it more with the Jewish families, or am I actually seeing something here? Because certainly the "let's dress the kids alike" idea exists elsewhere (and if anybody can give me any insight on this phenomenon, I'd appreciate it, because it doesn't make any sense to me), so why do I tend to associate it with twins and Orthodox Jews? Is it because I'm seeing a larger family (often), so it sticks in my mind? Or because it's a fairly distinctive style of dress here? Well, not that distinctive, unless you see it all the same.... Or because I have a prejudice I didn't know?

Or maybe I'm crazy? I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud while not actually being out loud.

I agree with moggymania

MTV isn't the first place I'd go looking for decent advice on People With Disabilities^TM, but it works.

Even the stuff about "PERSONFIRSTLANGUAGERAR!" is coupled with a note that people have their own preferences, and that not everyone may like being a Person With.

The world, it endeth.

Edit: I can't bring myself to put Griff's latest linkypost on its own entry, because it's too much to do that, but go read. griffen is just one of the coolest people I know.

I am now ready to give my opinion on the final B5 episode...

It was...

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