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[cimorene]

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   Dear Miss Manners:
   
   My grandmother received a phone call from her late husband's brother's wife this week. She tells my grandmother that her husband would like the set of china back that he gave to my grandmother and grandfather as a wedding gift 60 years ago. He brought the china back from Germany while in the service, and he wants to give it to his children. He did not tell this to my grandmother directly; he had his wife tell her.

   
   this sounds like a stunt that my mother's infamous "sister-kidnapping & 50th-anniversary-party-destroying" aunt pat would pull. that makes a good story for parties. i should keep in mind to relate it some time.



2. elfiepike sent me a tiny miniature chair. it's incredibly cute. it's tinier than the candles on our coffee table. a tea light or a christmas ornament could recline in it comfortably. i am smitten. i already had a weakness for little tiny chairs, but this is a modernist chair which is possibly even more special.



3. professor saruman explained today that when writing in a foreign language, it's a good idea to have a "so-called native speaker" look over the paper. uhmmm. am i missing something? something like how 'native speaker' isn't actually a real word, let alone the totally normal term for, you know, a native speaker?



4. i haven't seen anyone linking stories about this online around lj, which is odd, but i read in hufvudstadsbladet yesterday that nasa's just unveiled a plan to have an inhabited moon base by 2024 as an intermediary step to establishing a colony on mars. this is the future! coincidentally, just last week isilya and i were talking about how much more aggressive the push to make space inhabitable should be.

Comments

[thegoldsky.livejournal.com]

re: 4

jon stewart was talking about that on the daily show yesterday or the day before! he was making a joke about how nasa hadn't outlined any deadlines or strategies or budgets for the project, so clearly they should recruit donald rumsfield to lead it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh, god. nightmare! although in this instance they want international cooperation. rumsfeld's buddies only want in on the party when it involves making billions of dollars, not when it involves spending billions of dollars.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

:D! you got it, you like it, yay! actually, i had no doubts that you would like it; we got them in the store and were unpacking them and i thought, cim must have one of these. (ahaha, we ended up returning the rest to the company, though. XD)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

:D i totally did! it is desperately adorable.

i have no idea why i like tiny little chairs so much though. it's just so... wee.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

wee is one of my favorite adjectives. sometimes people make fun of me for using it, though. their loss! XD

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hollsh swayed me with an impassioned and convincing argument that it's one of the words that makes the world a better place and everyone should use it. XD