Whatcha thinking about now?

[kalynraye]

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It's a wine day!!! Oh and Asian meatballs and all I have to do is show up and enjoy some amazing company.

[Näre]

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I have some jalapeno slices in the fridge and since I'll be away for a few days I don't want to leave them rot but neither do I want to throw them away.

So... Perhaps it would be a not-so-good good idea to stuff my mouth full of those little imps and see what happens.

[Munin-Hugin]

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It's a wine day!!!

Yay! I've been having a glass of wine every night before I turn in for the evening. Tonight is the last of a sweet white that I "emancipated" from my parents' wine rack.

I have some jalapeno slices in the fridge and since I'll be away for a few days I don't want to leave them rot but neither do I want to throw them away.

So... Perhaps it would be a not-so-good good idea to stuff my mouth full of those little imps and see what happens.

Make a salad, dice them up, and throw them in there! I've got about two dozen scotch bonnets in my freezer that I've been saving for well, I have no idea, but I'll think of something one of these days.

[iris]

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The election is over in a few hours. Migh have a new prime minister, not that it makes much difference. But yay! I'm sick of political propaganda everywhere.

[volcaniclastic]

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I think I own too much stuff. I wish I could get money for it, though. Nobody buys books on the internet in town. And all the ads I've put up for outdoor gear so far have gone unanswered.

Nobody wants my things. :/

[Jembru]

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I casually mentioned to a colleage that I am thinking about becoming an NVQ assessor, but that I don't really want to learn to drive. She told me that she knows someone who used to work for our company and left to do that, and she doesn't drive. She apparently manages perfectly well to make it to appointments with clients on public transport. This changes everything.

I was worried that I wouldn't have time to study Japanese anymore, but I'll have plenty time to read on bus journeys between clients, and I'll be able to sneak in short skype/line conversations in the afternoon (evening in Japan). So it shouldn't mean an end to Japanese for me.

You know, I might just do this. It feels right somehow. I'm not sure if I can tear myself away from my current job, but let's wait until the offer is on the table before I worry about making that decision.

[Medusa]

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They make Butterfingers peanut butter cups.

I'm going to roll around in that stuff.

Pronto.

[AntonBRaxas]

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I am thinking about what to buy my wife for her birthday.
A book? A dragon statuette? A broomstick skirt? A new Faerie shirt?
Of course this comes with a nice sushi dinner at the end.
Wish me luck!

[thalassa]

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When I was a kid, my momma made me read a book off the American Library Association's Banned Book List every week during summer vacation.

The minions will be starting their first Banned Book Summer Read...but I'm not going for 1 a week, since most banned books are a little bit older than they are ready to read.

Chickadee:

The Egypt Game (banned because kids create their own Egyptian ceremonies)
The Witches (banned because magic)
A Wrinkle in Time (banned because magic)
Harriet the Spy (banned because it endorses lying, sneaking around, and cursing)
Number the Stars (because inappropriate for age)
Julie of the Wolves (because inappropriate for age)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (because anti-family)
Alice in Wonderland (because drugs and talking animals)
Harry Potter (series) (because magic)

(Luckily I still own most of these from when I read them at her age...)



Sharkbait:
And Tango Makes Three (banned because two daddies)
The Giving Tree (Banned for being sexist--female overly compliant tree, selfish demanding boy)
The Lorax (Banned for being mean to loggers)
Strega Nona (Banned because magic is good)
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Banned because the cops are pigs)
The Rabbits Wedding (banned because interracial marriage)
Junie B. Jones (series) (banned because bad attitude and kid grammar)--these we have to do as a read aloud, they are a bit long for independent reading
In the Night Kitchen (banned for nekkit)
Hirshima No Pika (challenged for not making war glorious)

(It was really hard to find banned books for a kindergardener...)

[anunitu]

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You know I had to do a search for banned books,cause you got me hooked. I am always just shocked when books are banned,most of them ones I have read and enjoyed very much...

[MaskedOne]

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When I was a kid, my momma made me read a book off the American Library Association's Banned Book List every week during summer vacation.

The minions will be starting their first Banned Book Summer Read...but I'm not going for 1 a week, since most banned books are a little bit older than they are ready to read.

Chickadee:

The Egypt Game (banned because kids create their own Egyptian ceremonies)
The Witches (banned because magic)
A Wrinkle in Time (banned because magic)
Harriet the Spy (banned because it endorses lying, sneaking around, and cursing)
Number the Stars (because inappropriate for age)
Julie of the Wolves (because inappropriate for age)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (because anti-family)
Alice in Wonderland (because drugs and talking animals)
Harry Potter (series) (because magic)

(Luckily I still own most of these from when I read them at her age...)



Sharkbait:
And Tango Makes Three (banned because two daddies)
The Giving Tree (Banned for being sexist--female overly compliant tree, selfish demanding boy)
The Lorax (Banned for being mean to loggers)
Strega Nona (Banned because magic is good)
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Banned because the cops are pigs)
The Rabbits Wedding (banned because interracial marriage)
Junie B. Jones (series) (banned because bad attitude and kid grammar)--these we have to do as a read aloud, they are a bit long for independent reading
In the Night Kitchen (banned for nekkit)
Hirshima No Pika (challenged for not making war glorious)

(It was really hard to find banned books for a kindergardener...)

Wait a sec, Wrinkle in Time and Number the Stars are banned. Wrinkle in Time (or parts of it, it's been a while and I don't remember) were assigned reading in school and Number the Stars was part of 6th grade Language Arts.

[anunitu]

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Depends on the part of the country MO,some places ban a LOT of books

[SleepingCompass]

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I remember when I was a kid my parents used to bribe us to get us to read. We could earn an extra half hour of tv time or a dollar for every book read. Hated it in the beginning and then became a book addict; my sister was the same way. My little brother was too much of a jock to care that much about tv time and since he was the baby, he never needed the cash like my sister and I, so he's never caught the book bug.

Reading banned books is a neat idea

[Medusa]

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Man, as a kid and into my adult years it was library trip time every weekend. Once I learned the dewey decimal system the world was my oyster!

[monsno_leedra]

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You know I had to do a search for banned books,cause you got me hooked. I am always just shocked when books are banned,most of them ones I have read and enjoyed very much...

Isn't that the truth. Sadly at times it's also banning of multiple books simply because they have the same title and no one takes the time to separate them. I recall in high school I was reading a western titled THE OUTSIDERS and the school and my English teacher said ok then discovered it wasn't the teen drama book THE OUTSIDERS. So one book was ok but the other was not on their approved reading list. As they put it the one was ok for non academic reading and outside school but it wasn't fit for school usage or recommended reading list.

As much as I dislike banning books though I really dislike the rewriting of a book to make it politically correct to make it acceptable. Seen lots of folk tales and fairy tale books that are re-written to make them more correct. Tossed some of Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff that was re-written to change the period references to blacks in his Tarzan books.