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molly_oI had all these plans to take the BG to the fireworks in Takoma (=less crowded than the ones on the Mall and perhaps more like my childhood memories of the ones on the Mall, before they created an elaborate, celebrity-filled celebration and then created elaborate security protocols to deal with the resulting crowds).
Instead, we went to the neighborhood parade in the morning. It was led by a delegation from the Marine Band, and an excellent local high school marching band brought up the rear, and in between there were cars advertising real estate agents and a couple women dressed as the Statue of Liberty and lots of parents and kids marching on behalf of one school or another. (My favorites were the kids who tossed candy to the bystanders - and then ran to grab the pieces that fell short for themselves.) After that, I felt like we had celebrated pretty well
I keep thinking of Minotaur at the most random times -- editing an article about San Diego at work, or dabbing a bit of diaper cream on the BG's taint. Still, I don't know if it will really hit me that he's gone until CON.TXT. RM is *really* going to miss him -- he looked forward to hanging out with Stuart at slash cons.
Lately I've been watching TrueBlood and Burn Notice (though not slashing either). It's a fun exercise to watch TB and compare the plot structure to the books; the TV writers often take a wildly different path to get to a similar place.
I've also been watching a lot of this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Za-V_lhwGg. I thought it was awesome to begin with, but I made the mistake of watching it with BG, and she likes to replay it 5 or 10 times every morning.
Instead, we went to the neighborhood parade in the morning. It was led by a delegation from the Marine Band, and an excellent local high school marching band brought up the rear, and in between there were cars advertising real estate agents and a couple women dressed as the Statue of Liberty and lots of parents and kids marching on behalf of one school or another. (My favorites were the kids who tossed candy to the bystanders - and then ran to grab the pieces that fell short for themselves.) After that, I felt like we had celebrated pretty well
I keep thinking of Minotaur at the most random times -- editing an article about San Diego at work, or dabbing a bit of diaper cream on the BG's taint. Still, I don't know if it will really hit me that he's gone until CON.TXT. RM is *really* going to miss him -- he looked forward to hanging out with Stuart at slash cons.
Lately I've been watching TrueBlood and Burn Notice (though not slashing either). It's a fun exercise to watch TB and compare the plot structure to the books; the TV writers often take a wildly different path to get to a similar place.
I've also been watching a lot of this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Za-V_lhwGg. I thought it was awesome to begin with, but I made the mistake of watching it with BG, and she likes to replay it 5 or 10 times every morning.