Two things involving children.

[elisi]

Happy Birthday quietpoet! Hope your day is everything you could wish for! *hugs*

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Then something I've been meaning to share for a while. This is from one of the Cherub's library books, and keeps cracking me up. Clearly someone thought that it was time to update this particular fable for the iPod generation:

"So who'll fetch the flour?" asked Heidi the Hen.

"Not me," said the dog.

"Nor me," squeaked the mouse.

"Oh I'll fetch it myself," muttered Heidi the Hen, and she nipped to the deli and bought it.

(In her little red car. WHAT HAPPENED TO PLANTING CORN AND HARVESTING IT AND TAKING IT TO THE MILL??? Anyway, then she bakes herself a birthday cake which then runs away, is nearly gobbled up by a sly crocodile as it rows the cake across a lake, and is finally caught and eaten by Heidi the Hen and all her friends... Two fables for the price of one!)

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Also, this afternoon, in my front room. (Miss M is 12, Impish Girl 9)

Miss M (musingly): Why is it always the girls with the most make up who scream the loudest?

Impish Girl (dismissively): It's because the girls with the most make up are the stupidest! (Then, contemptuously) Girls with the most make up like Justin Bieber!

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[the-redjay.livejournal.com]

When she's older you should point her in the direction of Sartre...

[elisi]

Oh given the way she reads almost everything she'll probably find him herself... ;)

(Btw I finished 'Alien Abduction' if you need a distraction. I hope you're doing OK?)

[the-redjay.livejournal.com]

(I heard from my friend in Japan, so yes. I've not heard from friends/family of other people I know, though, and I'm just... tired. I will read the end of that, though, should make me feel better)

And I quite like Miss M. She's a smart girl, the way I see it.

[elisi]

I heard from my friend in Japan, so yes. I've not heard from friends/family of other people I know, though, and I'm just... tired.
*hugs* I find it hard to get to grips with the scale of the whole thing... I hope you'll hear from people soon (in my next entry there's a link which links to a missing persons database kinda thing).

I still remember how, after Katrina, one of my LJ friends had to wait a month before she managed to find out that her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren were OK. I don't understand how she stayed sane, not knowing for that long.

And I quite like Miss M. She's a smart girl, the way I see it.
Oh she likes you too! And quite often asks after you. Plus, she has sort-of written the fic she promised you, but it needs... editing. It's lovely, but the plot doesn't make any sense. :)

(Oh and I hope the fic helps you to have a little break. I think breaks are very necessary, but sadly only have fic to offer.)

[the-redjay.livejournal.com]

Eh heh. I forgot that fic. She's so sweet, writing it for me. Tell her I said hi? And that I agree with her about the screaming girl thing. ;)

I have family in Palestine. I went crazy during the bombing in 2007 even though I was in the country. Phonelines were down sometimes. And the explosion of the hotel in Taba? I didn't hear from my cousin for a long time either, she had only JUST decided not to go to the hotel... my anxiety disorder's back lately, and a good friend of mine hadn't heard from her family until yesterday either, and all the Japanese students at the uni... It's heart-breaking.

[elisi]

Tell her I said hi? And that I agree with her about the screaming girl thing. ;)
Will do. And I'll try to sit down with her and force her to edit the story. (Really, it's marvellous to make her learn this stuff now - it'll come in useful for the rest of her life!)

I have family in Palestine.
That must be impossibly difficult. *sends more hugs for future use* I hope your friend hears from her family soon!

(And now I'm going to forget about everything and write! *resolve face*)

[the-redjay.livejournal.com]

Editting skills in my past would have been very useful right now, I agree. *glares at essay around sleeplessness*

[elisi]

Afraid I can't say anything profound about writing as your icon is totally cracking me up! :)

[the-redjay.livejournal.com]

No, to be fair, the icon gets me every time, too.

[promethia_tenk]

Hee--the first thing to pop into my head was that's a rather amusing inversion of Monsieur 'hell is other people' Sartre. Glad I'm not the only one.

[the-redjay.livejournal.com]

Fools seldom differ Great minds think alike ;)