Yeah. It's September 11th.

I remember exactly what I was doing on September 10th, back... four years ago? Wow.

I was at the Borders at the WTC. I used to live there. Last week, I had a dream of it - not really a dream, more like a memory that happened while I was asleep - it was so vivid, it was real. I remembered sitting and reading in the kids section, which had a fake tree in it, and it used to have a green carpet, made to look like spreading grass (that is, it had a curvy, irregular edge), but the carpet had an unidentified stain on it, so it was eventually replaced, in the same, curvy, irregular shape with a stars and comets carpet, right under the spreading fake tree.

Anyway, the night before it all happened, I wasn't sitting there. I was sitting in an actual chair in the area next to the music section, except I *hate* sitting in chairs, because I keep getting uncomfortable, so I kept switching positions - legs hanging over one arm, turn around so they hang over the other arm, sit normally, scrunch up my feet beneath me... of course, it didn't work, right? I was still uncomfortable.

And I had a whole stack of books I didn't finish, and mommy and I went home late - I didn't leave the store until they were almost closing. So we caught the N, at Cortlandt. Or it might've been the R. Didn't matter, there wasn't any Q or W to mess things up.

I used to cut school and go to that bookstore.

*shrugs*

I'm just thinking aloud, metaphorically.

Some more NYTimes articles....

Another article on hurricane survivors

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On things left undone on 9/11

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On memorials
Comes with a slideshow

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On lost cities

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On our refugees

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On a wedding four years ago

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On living in Lower Manhattan

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More articles...

But first! Does everybody on neopets have a different, individualized Temple of 1000 Tombs? If not, does anybody have a map for my tomb, do you think? (I'm going nutty trying to find a door that's gray, oval, with a pawprint on top of it. I've found the other doors that my parchment reccommends, but they have higher numbers than GOP, and they don't work.)

On to the articles....

On on Shrubboy

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On flood control

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On the parasitic hairworm, too cool

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On Wells College....

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On teaching, and Shakespeare

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On dizziness

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On Baton Rouge's reaction to refugees

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Another article on 9/11

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On the outsourcing of tutors

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And yes, still more! More, more, more, all for the price of one article!

On evacuated students

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On the evolution of the human brain

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On China, and classes on gay studies

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On preserving historical documents

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On the San Francisco earthquake

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On Egyptian medicine

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On food in a Harlem school

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On families divided by the recent disaster

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Remember a while ago, I posted an article on gold salts and autism...

Somebody's done their research on the subject.

At least, I assume they have. Since I'm too lazy to do *my* research, I'll just trust that they're right, and wait for corrections. This link is posted so those who are interested in the subject can read it.

Fun little game...

Taken most recently from trollprincess:

The object of the game is to stump the person writing the journal. I've been writing in my LiveJournal since who the hell knows when, and can't possibly remember all the topics I've talked about in that time. Your job, if you choose to accept it, is to go into the archives of my journal and pull out a random quote, only from public posts, and then my job will be to see if I can remember what I was talking about.

I promise not to cheat, but you will have to just trust me on that.

You tell me if I'm remotely right or wrong. Please don't pick a quote that's so random that it could apply to anything, like "feh" or "Damn it!" or something equally general. Pick something that might actually be about something.

Modification of the rules:

1. If you like, you can link to the entry in question when you post your comment. I promise not to click until after I've guessed.
2. If I can't tell where it's from, I reserve the right to make up a completely asinine fakepost involving the quote.
2a. Or I might just sit and pout.
3. If an entry seems personal, just not locked, please use your best judgment. I reserve the right to screen comments if they inadvertantly quote an entry that we should just pretend is locked, for the time being. None of them *should* be unlocked that ought to be locked, but a few of the older ones might be anyway.

Edit: Corrected spelling of LiveJournal. One word, capital L, capital J.

So, lemme get this straight.

It's fair to continue to politicize 9/11... (to the point where people Must Wear Our T-Shirts?), but to call people out on mismanagement regarding the recent hurricane, that's not cool?

So. Moving to a previously uninhabited isle. How much does it cost to buy an island, do you think?

Oh, and speaking of t-shirts, I was at Union Square yesterday, visiting the bookstore (I liked Will of the Empress, but somehow couldn't get into Wizards at War - I'll try again Saturday coming), and of course it's political opinions central over there (was it always this bad? It seems to have gotten steadily more and more dramatic this year especially), and there was a place with political shirts and onesies. I wanted to get Ana a "W is for Wrong" onesie, but they only had that in adult T-shirt size, and anyway, I've got no money. Alas.

On Will of the Empress....

The new Circle book. I forget what the new quartet (?) is called, specifically, but you know the broader series.

This is only very minor spoilery stuff I'm listing, and it's really nothing that we didn't already know from conversations Tammy's had online, but I'm cutting it anyway.

( In which I compare JKR unfavorably to Tammy.... )

Now, for my report on the book on its own merits: I liked it. My only real complaints would be that it's a bit slow-moving, and that on the issue it tackles as an issue (legalized sexism and abuse) Tammy does tend to go on just a bit.

But really, it's a good book, and I've always found that the Circle books are better than the Tortall books because there's less MarySueism going on. It's still there (all four of them are ridiculously powerful? Wha?) but it's not nearly as annoying. Tammy does, in my view, tend to Sue up her characters. It's an affliction, I'm sure.

Y'know, I just realized I have *no* icons from her books. Oh dear. Must remedy that.