1) Hushpuppies
2) Biscuits
3) If you turn on the radio, you can always find Creedence Clearwater Revival playing on one station or another.
Things I Love About The South, Part 1
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Tagged adventures with Stick, back in the US, North Carolina, Raleigh, southern food
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Our House, By Isabelle
My mom asked to see a picture of our new apartment, so here is one by Isabelle.
No Points For Creativity
I am as tired of hearing “for Main Street, not Wall Street” as I once was of hearing “China’s coming-out party.”
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Tagged Beijing Olympics 2008, Beijing:Raleigh, China, Raleigh, repatriation
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Voter Registration
Today I called to find out where I go to register to vote (there are voter registration drives all over the place but I always see them when I’m in hurrying to class or to pick up Stick) and I found out that North Carolina has in-person early voting, which means that for most of October, NC residents can go to special pre-voting spots to register to vote and then vote ahead of time. It’s like a little prize for being disorganized.
Anything to avoid a trip to the DMV! It’s also good because if you miss the October 10th deadline for regular voter registration, you can get a second chance to vote at the walk-in early voting between October 19th and the Saturday before election day. (Not sure how they came up with that time period) The locations and opening hours for special early voting in Wake County are listed here, I don’t really know the rules of other counties. Because early, walk-in voting goes on for a couple weeks, I don’t expect any election-day crowds.
Just in case my Twitter buddy Barack is reading, I would parallel park for you too, but now I won’t have to!
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P-Chan
This is P-Chan from Ranma 1/2. My high-school friends Matt (of Pie2K fame), Jon and Willem went to Otakon in ’98, and brought P-chan back for me. I wanted to go to with them, but when I asked my mom if I could go too, she stopped listening after “boys” and “hotel room”.
I have had P-Chan for about 10 years now and he has yet to turn into Ryoga once.
More Unpacking
Something else I found while unpacking. Stick won this at the Cyberlore party a few years ago for reading more Playboys than anybody else, I mean, successfully answering Playboy trivia questions.
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Tie
This quote keeps popping up all over my Twitter feed this morning.
“I was a little disappointed the media called it a tie but I think that means, when they call it a tie, that means we win.”
— Sen. John McCain, quoted by Reuters, “during a telephone call that was caught by cameras filming him at his campaign headquarters.”
This is, by the way, how my niece Isabelle sees a tie in Balloon Lagoon, too.
Via Political Wire, from Reuters.
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On Classicist Romance
We have 2 copies of Winnie The Pooh in Latin.
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Unpacking
Most of our boxes look something like this:
…or this:
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Economics According to Meg
So if you are making minimum-wage as a cashier and at the end of the day, your drawer is missing $20, you probably get fired, because losing a twenty is either stealing or incompetence. But if you’re making a huge salary as a CFO, and large amounts of money disappear from your bank, the government will come in with lots of money to help you out!
