In All Fairness

[shiredancer]

I asked to know more about who_took and as a result she has opened herself to questions, so... I figure I owe her the same opportunity. So I'll take a turn at the "ask a question, any question" thing. Although I can't imagine anybody having anything to ask! I spill all my own best secrets here on LJ, although I've not yet gotten to everything. "Yet" being the operative word... give me time and enough morose middle-of-the-night bouts of insomnia, and it will probably all come out. Now, is that a threat or a promise?

The slumber party proceeds apace; it's not as bad as I feared it would be (but only two little girls showed up, so that makes it a lot easier). Why do they love "Trading Spaces" so much? If anybody ever did things like that to my house, I'd shoot 'em with their own staple gun (for all that I don't believe in any guns at all), and not a jury would find me guilty.

Good things that have happened lately: Good chats, Daisy's back online, Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize, and... best of all... my husband bought a lock for our bedroom door. Whoot! No more sneaking downstairs to avoid our middle-of-the-night 10-year-old marauder. Although the fireplace is rather romantic... Okay, so at least we have options now.

Some questions for y'all: Anybody here listen much to Richard and Mimi Farina? And has anybody at all here ever heard of Mary Laswell's "Suds in Your Eye" books? Just curious, you know.

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Ah, you've done it now...

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

I get to ask a question, eh? (Or was the offer only for Who_Took?)

What Happened in Greece, during your trip there with your younger brother in the 1970's? What was the most important thing you learned about life on that trip? What did you learn about yourself?

btw, I finally got around to reading your *jail story*, and hey, I was almost in your shoes there at Diablo Canyon, 2 years later. But the protest got cancelled, for conflicting with some important folk-music festival in Santa Barbara, and rescheduled a week later when I had another commitment, so I didn't get to spend my time in jail.

My spouse wasn't demonstrating on the other side, but his two best-friend/housemates were drafters at Diablo Canyon. Quite a few engineers supported themselves through Cal Poly that way. Their logic was, "hey, yeah, it's a stupid place for a Nuke Plant, but at least *we* can be making the $25/hour, and not give it up to some yahoo who can't tell left from right on the diagrams". You do know that the project was delayed for almost a decade because someone mislabelled "north" as "east" on every sheet of the plans, and construction was 90 degrees off for almost 3 years before they discovered the problem? Hah!

Re: Ah, you've done it now...

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, you do get to ask a question! But you're quite right, it looks like I *have* done it now... leave it to you to zero in on the single most self-revealing story I probably have to tell! As I mentioned to Who above, I'll have to put this in a separate post... and give it some thought. Let's see, how to make this not just the tell-all it is?? And at least I get away with two answers in one post -- I'm ever the laziest poster.

And whoo-hoo -- another Diablo protester (well, almost)! I just knew we had a lot in common, Lin. Yes, I remember that second protest -- it seems to have been a bit of a fizzle, as I recall. And LOL, I certainly remember all the hoopla about the upside-down-and-backward plans. What a mess; I felt quite justified in my protest after that surfaced. I'm just as glad no major earthquakes have struck in that area... although if one does, I sincerely hope I'll be proven quite *wrong* in my fears, and that the lousy thing will stand.

Watch for the Greece post soon!