Today's haiku

Sitting on El Jay
Angst, quizzes, pictures, drama
The simple haiku

(This one kinda sucks. I may do another one later.)

Oh, and silly me, I'm posting this without my new icon. Just wait.

So, Ana, despite having tons of clothes, doesn't have many weather-approprate clothes....

Yeah.

Which is how I found myself browsing The Children's Place. After all, if I want to ensure she has plenty of non-pink/purple clothing, I have to be on top of the situation, right? Right. Their stuff is surprisingly non-expensive (trust me, after you've seen stores seriously selling children's clothes at $50+, your views of what clothing should cost change drastically. I mean, I understand buying for quality, but... children! They don't *need* quality, they just need lots of clothes so that when they stain one outfit, another's waiting!), and, of course, adorable (of course!). Weird thing, though, these people learned a different set of colors than the ones I'm teaching Ana. Energy? Tidal? Mist? Since when is "mist" this shade of blue? Mist is just fancy-woman fog.

If you're curious, and interested in Helping the Cause (clothes that aren't pink!), you can always comment or send over leftover clothes from relatives or whatever. I wouldn't bother, though - we're hardly desperate here. It might be better off sent to charity or something. I'm sure, if you're so determined to give stuff away (riiiiiiight....), Ana'd prefer some toys or books. I've got a massively insane wishlist at amazon that's fairly worthless.

*goes back to browsing the site*

Energy. Pah! If you can't call it red, try scarlet or vermillion. Colors that are, y'know, colors.

I have a question...

Okay, so, apparently, autism rates a decade ago were something like 1/2,500, and now, as people keep saying, it's 1/166, right?

Well, if this is proof that the actual incidence of autism has increased, wouldn't we expect the number to keep rising? They've been saying 1/166 for years now, haven't they? Shouldn't they be up to 1/100 or 1/85 or something? What am I not seeing?

I've noticed that a few people defriended me after I defriended them.

Which is fine, I'm not upset. However, I worry that some people might currently be keeping me on their friends lists because I have them on mine. If this is the case, I implore you, just remove me. It's possible that I'm doing the same thing, and we'll both be happier with mutual removal! So, if you wanna defriend me, seriously, you should go ahead and do it. In fact, in defiance of most LJ memes, I'm here to announce that cutting names off your friends list is a profound and freeing experience. By cutting my friends list down, I don't feel bad about skimming - there's less skimming. I don't feel stressed that omg, I may have missed something very important! It's great. I should've done this months ago.

So, um, yeah. If you want to defriend me, go right on ahead. Feel the freedom in your new friends list.

Oh, and youse guys who keep adding me, unadding me, adding me again? You know who you are. Why do you do that? It's very confusing.