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Armadillos in our Trousers

by badvoudou

Rated: GC · Book · Other · #984571

It's done.

"Here lies David St. Hubbins...And why not?" - David St. Hubbins, in *This is Spinal Tap*, when Marti DiBergi asks what would be on his headstone.

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SummerLyn Guthrie

Jun 6, 2010 at 7:36pm
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I personally think you should be proud of her and yourself over there for raising her!

SummerLyn Guthrie

Jun 6, 2010 at 7:34pm
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Ohhhh you can't leave! I just found you!!!

And fuss all you want...whine all you want! It makes people feel better believe it or not, when they can participate in your fussing.

Ina Deaver

Jun 10, 2009 at 7:42pm
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I had the same problem! Around that age I liked 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World (that was a morose week). I really liked a book when I was quite little that she might like - it was called "Maneaters of Kumaon," and it was by a man named Corbett. It's his memoirs of killing maneating tigers in a mountainous region of India back in the 1930s. Also totally awesome in the memoirs department is "West with the Night," which is by Beryl Markham.

Also really good is "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," and for that matter "An American Childhood," by Annie Dillard. It just really depends on what she likes to read. Shoot me an email and tell me genres that she likes, and I can recommend a lot of stuff. I was a voracious reader, and I knocked out the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathanial Hawthorne before I started school: by age 12, I had pretty eclectic tastes.

Which reminds me, in the children's section (but well written stuff, if she hasn't already done them) are the Susan Cooper books, the Lloyd Alexander books, the Gaiman books (Coraline, the Graveyard Book), and a pretty good selection of others.

I never liked sci-fi, so I steered clear of that as a kid, but I liked fantasy (hence Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander). We are really liking the Rick Riordan "Perseus Jackson" series - they are fun and very fast-paced. I really liked mystery, so I can make recommendations there if she likes it.

I'm also tight with some very good children's librarians (you can just see me hanging with the librarians -- go on, admit it). If you let me know what types of things she has liked in the past, the collective group can probably make some great recommendations on that basis.

Ina Deaver

Jun 10, 2009 at 7:31pm
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If you quit, I will miss you. And the lunchlady madness. Just promise that there will be occasional musings from the voudou lair.

Quill o' the Owl

May 4, 2009 at 10:24am
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I understand. I've been wrasslin' that same devil myself lately.

For now, I'm just gonna keep up the lame posts though. I have less self-respect than you do.

I would request that you continue to compile lunchlady stories in some fashion, however. And then let me have a peek.

Dark Lady

May 4, 2009 at 10:00am
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{e:pouts} So, no more Ireland?

Satuawany

Apr 23, 2009 at 4:58pm
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Wow, you kinda got me stumped. Ummm...

If she ends up liking Ender's Game there are more to the series. The most immediate are Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Now, Speaker has at least one gruesome scene in it, involving a dead body. It's not in a lot of detail, but it does point out that the innards are arranged in a pattern around the body. Sooo, that may not be what you're looking for. But there's no sex in those books and they've got some really cool ideas in them.

Also, Speaker is the weakest book in the series in my opinion, and I'd even say it's skippable. It shows how Ender gets to the planet he's on in Xenocide, but a college freshmen level comprehension reader shouldn't miss a beat.

For everything else that comes to the tip of my tongue, I remember things about them that probably aren't suitable.

Oh! Spindle's End by Robin McKinley is a pretty cool book. I even have that on review: ("Invalid Entry"

) If she's into that, there's also Beatuy (which is actually intended for younger readers, so I dunno), and Rose Daughter, which has a great ending. Under no circumstanaces should you let her read Deerskin, though, unless you just want to scar her for life.

'Course, gonna make me feel like a goob for dropping Spindle's End at RenFaire, when you were right there.

Hey, I should just look at my review list...and find out that any others I'd recommend would probably just offend her, being directed toward her age group.

badvoudou

Apr 20, 2009 at 5:23pm
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Thanks, lady! We were very relieved to hear the mono diagnosis, though, because they thought it might be lymph cancer for a while. He's actually not feeling all that bad, just a little tired. But jeez - typhus! I don't even know what that is! Living near the border definately brought some interesting bugs your way!

Ina Deaver

Apr 19, 2009 at 5:15pm
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Ay caramba! I hope that he gets better fast. That bites.

I didn't get mono. Got a lot of other fun things -- you can thank living on the border to Mexico for many of those interesting contacts with third-world microbes. One of my sisters was down with Typhus for two weeks once. But no mono in the whole family. I'm not sure we had enough social contact to get mono. . . . . .

badvoudou

Apr 19, 2009 at 12:44am
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Heh - Cat Scratch Fever makes me laugh too. But then, anything that makes me think of Ted Nugent will do that. You can be Typhoid Mary too. Texas is a pretty big state, there's no way they'd know there are two of us running around.

Wait - THREE! Q is there too. Maybe we need to have some t-shirts made, or a secret handshake, or something. Well, at least I know it's ok to share smokes/pints/chocolate with you two.

May 4, 2009 at 7:52am

#648111

and why not

I think I'm done. With blogging, I mean. Almost every day I type an entry and delete it because when I read it, it's full of whining and fussing and nothing very interesting. And there is enough of that in other blogs. I haven't done any writing writing in a very long time. I want to get back to that, and for me, blogging's a copout and a distraction. So I think I'm done. Still going to check in on my favorite bloggers, though, so you guys keep at it. I'm off to get my lunchlady game-face on.

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April 12, 2008 at 8:44pm

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above and beyond

Just how awesome are you guys? I'll tell you just how awesome. I was whining because I didn't have the funds to renew my upgrade and you offered to help out w/fundraising and donations and prizes - and dooood, looky what Quill o' the Owl

whipped up - a bank to hold the gps. And a forum to go with it.

Last night I was reading an e-mail from her and Pete asked what I was up to. I explained to him and he insisted I just pay for the effing upgrade. We argued back and forth and he won. I'm claiming the upgrade as an early Mother's Day gift.

Funny how things work out. Today the mailman brought a letter from our mortgage company. Seems they re-evaluated our property tax situation and we've got an escrow surplus. There was a check. A nice one. Tears of joy commenced to flowing. I dried them up quick, though, so I could journey to our neighborhood HEB seafood dept and buy some crustaceans for dinner. And some Pacifico. Grilling's thirsty work.

So here's what Owl made. It's just too damn cool to stay on private access. I'm genuinely greatful for the support, guys. It makes me feel all warm and squeezy inside. And I'm thinking that I'm going to donate my gps to an upgrade charity. Yanno, to keep my karma shiny and good. Super-special thanks to Owl, too. Do yourselves a favor and take a look at her blog, here

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