Class of 1950
I was thinking of my Gram a lot today, then a cousin sent this over. The picture is missing her infectious smile, but I love it all the same. I’d never seen it before, and am glad to have this opportunity.
I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have.
This was taken from the August 11, 2010 newsletter, the RootsWeb Review (Vol. 13, No. 8), and it gave me the giggles:
This was written in the margin of the 1803 Census for Oglethorpe County Georgia, Capt Parmenas English District.
“Fishing Creek Academites part morallised the rest get drunk run in debt can’t pay go to jail breakout and run away.”
Thanks to Terry Robertson
obviously, this census taker felt the need to engage in some social commentary, sans punctuation.
I went to visit my darling brother in Montreal a few weekends ago, and I’m going to be posting a few pictures from it over the next few weeks. Here’s the first few from the Quartier des Spectacles, and nearby.
Have I really not posted in two months? Boy, am I going to hear about that this weekend! On the up side, I completely changed my look, and added a badge all on my very lonesome, so I should get credit for that!
Let me know what you think of the Chateau’s new look, I’m having fun with the header, that’s for sure!
So have some patience with me. I figured that I’d try out m
y new batch photo editing software, so you’ll have to let me know how you like the watermarks. In the meantime, I squeezed in a shoot at Union Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, TX, at the beginning of March when all the wildflowers were just coming up. These are just the flowers and the prettiest parts of the plots. I’ll add the tombstones later. Please let me know what you think!
New Glee sneak peek!!!!! Best line? “We’re glitterati; I feel like Lady Gaga!” See it here…
I thought y’all would enjoy this. I’d like to point out that the person that gave me the phalaenopsis was so confident in my ability to kill an orchid that they gave it to me in a reusable container! 
Update – and then I came home to these, which I was slow to get a picture up for… 
Did you ever read the email story about the kid, the Chapstick and the cat? You know the one if you’ve seen it, in one of its five million iterations on the web. I get it regularly as I struggle with my ongoing addiction to lip balm,
Lip balm at hand
as my friends think its funny to torture me. Well, one day I looked up the story to send to a friend, and was delighted to find that the original woman who wrote the story (as a submission to a Suave promotion) lives here in Austin, and blogs (on WordPress) as txmomof3. I started following her (of course!), and ran across this hilarious video of her appearances (or rather, lack of appearances) on Ellen. She warns you that the video is a tad lengthy, but it is worth it.
I haven’t made time to write!!! On the upside, everything is on the up-side I like staying busy, and although it gets a little stressful, I love the direction that my life is heading, so I’m willing to put in the time! Talk to you all soon!
Honestly, I run into the weirdest things by reading Whedonesque…
Lets talk about Felicia Day and Twitter. Felicia is known for the webseries The Guild, and for being one of the Potentials/Slayers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I noticed her when Joss tapped her again for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. She’s a prolific Twitter user (and WordPress user!!), and a huge supporter of social media, so when this article came out in Vanity Fair about business women using Twitter as part of their presence on the net, everyone got excited. Disappointingly, its horrible (and not in the awesome Neil Patrick Harris sort of way).
Felicia was understandably disappointed and posted her thoughts about the incident on her blog. She was very polite about the entire incident considering how livid she must have been, and only crowed once about how the magazine was being made redundant in the spate and growth of new media. Talk about a great lady! I doubt that I could have been that reserved if I had been the subject of the VF article, especially with quotes like this:
In order to stay in touch with, and keep intact, their legions of “followers”—that’s twitspeak for the number of people who have signed up to read one’s tweets—these civilian twilebrities must, you know, tweet a lot.
Wow. That’s deep. I’m now inspired to, you know, tweet a lot. If there is ever a course that focuses on gender presentation in modern technology, this would be an excellent cautionary tale of how to alienate every educated and enlightened individual that reads your publication. Congratulations, Vanity Fair.
ANYWAY, the comments on Felicia’s blog get super interesting after a bit – apparently some of her commenters believed that in taking that photograph (in which the girls appear as stylized ‘virtual reporters’ in trenchcoats and heels with their phones in hand) and appearing attractive/sexy in it, they were deserving to be completely patronized and dismissed in the article. Enjoy the debate.
I also liked the comment (via 2 Twitter posts) from one of the other picture “Twilebrities” Sarah Evans, who managed to put a nice and positive spin on the whole experience.
Thank you to all who posted thoughts & reactions to the Vanity Fair piece. Hopefully this serves as a launching pad… …to highlight real accomplishments by these women. It’s sparked topics that really do need to be discussed, & for that, I’m glad.
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