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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
6:07 pm	Living History Living HistoryExcerpt from a series of essays: The Stories I Tell The State of New Jersey requires all children to learn the state history along about 4th grade. Most of the other states in the area – NY and PA particularly- also have similar requirements and therefore all kids study Native Americans, usually sometime between the second and the fifth grades. That can be anywhere from about ages 7-11 or so, depending, for anyone unfamiliar with the US grading system.As a Historical Interpreter at a living history museum/park area, my job is primarily to teach school children about the Lenape Tribe. The Lenape are a forest-living tribe who were local to this part of the East Coast until the Europeans killed them off or kicked them out and sent them off to Okalahoma. Lenape are also sometimes called “Delaware Indians.”The average day works something like this:The kids get off the bus about a half mile from where I actually do the tour. We meet them at the bus and divide the school into manageable groups, and ‘manageable’ is extremely subjective depending on how many guides we have and how tough the crowd is. I lead groups of anywhere between 10 and 60 kids, plus chaperones and teachers. Usually, I have about 30 kids, plus the requisite but usually underperforming supervisory adults.At the parking lot, we do the hello speech. Please bear in mind that whatever amount of energy the kids seem to be generating when I first get up there, it is my job to generate just a little bit more. I have to be the most animated person when I’m talking or their eyes glaze over and they start kicking each other. The hello speech usually goes about like this: _“Hi! I’m Mrs. Graham, I’ll be your tour guide! What school are you from? (insert yelled name of school). “Really? Great! What grade are you in?” (more yelling) “And have you been studying the Lenape? (yelled response) “Great! Well, let me tell you how it’s going to go today! I’m going to take you FROM the parking lot TO the picnic area where you will drop off your lunches! Then I’m going to take you on our tour. We have two rules I really need you to follow – ONE! I’m the guide! This means that I know where I’m going and you very likely don’t! Therefore, I NEED TO BE IN THE FRONT. DO NOT GO AHEAD OF THE GUIDE! That means whenever we’re going anywhere, you guys stay behind me. Got it?” (yelling). “Great! The second rule is, STAY ON THE PATH! There are rocks you could slip on and poison ivy you could end up with if you don’t STAY ON THE PATH. Anybody want poison ivy? (emphatic yelling in the negative) “Good! I don’t want you to have it either! So, STAY ON THE PATH! Are you ready to go? (deafening screams) “Okay, follow me!”_Having established my position as leader and threatened them with poison ivy, I take the children up to the picnic area and help them stow their lunches in a large green wooden box set there for just that purpose. At that point, I try to get them started. Sometimes I’m thwarted by a teacher who insists on herding them all to the bathrooms, at which case I lose about 20 minutes to utter chaos. When I’ve got them ready to go, I jump up on a picnic table. At this point, I either reiterate the rules: "I’m the Guide! STAY BEHIND THE GUIDE and STAY ON THE PATH! or occasionally I add more rules, such as Do NOT throw things at the (geese/chickens/other children) and do NOT throw any (rocks, sticks, whatever the hell they’ve brought with them that’s missile-adaptable)! I also sometimes throw in rules for the adults, if they appear to require a few: Parents and Teachers please turn your cellphones to SILENT during the tour, so as not to distract the children and please help me keep this group TOGETHER as much as possible! Thanks! When I’m done giving smiling but very firm instructions to everybody, I jump off the picnic table and start marching them through the woods.It’s about a half-mile walk to the Lenape stuff, so they have plenty of time to talk to each other, ask me weird questions, demand exact times for lunch and gift shop, forget all the rules (STAY ON THE PATH!) and generally run wild. When we get near the start of the Lenape tour, they all go insane because we have a spirit-representation painted on the trees. I love those things, because it neatly transfers power back to me. They all want to know what those things are and as a rule, I’m the only one around who can tell them. A child is much more willing to listen when they think you have valuable information. Incidentally, so are adults. Curriculum varies by the age of the group. Little kids get bare basics on Lenape culture, we talk more about nature, using what you have available, solving problems of food, water, shelter, etc. The oldest kids get bored by that, so if we get anything above 5th grade or so, we do a lot more stuff about how the Europeans were able to so completely stomp out the Natives. In general, Lenape tour includes the following exhibits, all strung out along a path in the woods. At each site, I talk for anywhere from 45 seconds to 10 minutes, depending on what’s going on around me. Usually I spend about 5-7 minutes at each site, plus time for questions. Introduction – can be done anywhere, depending on the crowds. Involves establishing that life was DIFFERENT four hundred years ago and a lot of questions from me to the group to find out what the kids have been learning in class. Petroglyph – also known as “the rock” – it’s an example of a story carved into stone. This is where we talk about oral tradition and storytelling.Sweat Lodge – talking about the mechanics of getting clean when there’s no running water and the natural water sources get mighty cold come winter. Maple Tapping – the process of getting sugar out of trees. This is one we skip if we’re pressed for time or leading the pack of school groups. Whoever is in the front has to keep moving or other groups get stuck behind you and the guides have to improvise stuff to keep the kids from losing interest. Hunting – an inevitable favorite. Also takes a long time, a lot of information. We talk about who did the hunting (men!) and what they hunted (deer and bear!) and what they used to hunt (bow and arrow!) and I walk around the exhibit showing them examples of bones and fur and fire-starting tools and all the rest of it. The hunting is exhibit is where the children always ask me what the Lenape used the animals’ eyeballs for. Official Response? Great question! Can anyone think of any possible uses for eyeballs? Real Answer: _I have no idea._Next up is Fur and Leatherworking, where I get to gross them out by talking about using brains to cure skins. (That usually shuts down the eyeball kid.)Gardening – we talk about corn, beans and squash, also known as the Three Sisters. We talk about Grandma keeping watch to throw rocks at animals that might eat the garden, and, inevitably, the What If questions about grandma killing the animal, killing the people who were gardening, falling off her little watchtower, etc etc etc. Shaman’s Longhouse – the first indoor exhibit, they always scream when they see the first mannequins dressed as Lenape. We talk about religion and spirituality in very general terms, calling on the spirits to heal people (”If you have a BAD spirit making you sick, you want to call a GOOD spirit to help kick it out!”) and an overview of natural medicines and early healing. Crafting – aka Making Stuff With What You’ve Got. Baskets, pottery, wood carving, beadwork, etc. We talk about toys and games and where clay comes from. Some guides take forever at crafting. I am not one of them.Archeology – I hate this site. It’s a simulated archeological dig that takes forever to explain and involves concepts the average 4th grader just can’t quite grasp. We talk about post-molds and going through ancient trash to get clues about daily life. There are some fake human bones. ”No, these are not real bones! These are fake bones, fake bones, and the fake bones tell us…” and fake mastodon bones ”A mastodon is like a big fluffy elephant, like a wooly mammoth, that lived over 12 thousand years ago!” Archeology takes at least ten minutes no matter what you do. Next comes the Grave Site– ”No, nobody’s really buried here!” and funeral customs. Sometimes I slip the three clans into this one, if I get a group that’s actually studied them. Women’s Enclosure – oh, this one is dangerous. This is where we talk about babies, how they were carried, what the customs were to protect them, etc. THIS is where I always get asked where babies come from, what happens if…and how did the Lenape circumcise people, anyway? (Answers: “Same place they do now, ask your parents for details, no ‘what if’ questions right now please” and either ‘sharpened seashells’ or ‘ask your teacher’, depending on the age of the group.)Ceremonial Circle – always a favorite. This is where I get to tell them about the punishment for naughty children (being picked up by a guy in a spirit costume and carried around the village in a bag of snakes). This is also where I talk about naming, the levels of heaven, depending on how pressed we are for time.Fishing – by fishing, if I’m not careful, they’re glassy eyed, so I always hop up on a rock and wave my arms around when I talk, which forces them to pay attention because I’m so tall and I’m moving. Men did the fishing, we fished with nets, spears, weirs, fishing poles, bows and arrows…yadda yadda. I also talk about “feet and canoes” as the transportation available to Lenape.At fishing, someone always asks when lunch is. From fishing we go up the hill to the actual village part and the Communal Cooking Area. The cooking area is really a filler exhibit that gives you something to talk about if someone is in the Longhouse ahead of you.Longhouse – The longhouse is always fun. Men built them, women owned them. Even the adults get a kick out of that one. Marriage customs, divorce customs, matrilineal society, Mohawk hairstyles, natural disasters and rebuilding – the long house lecture is varied by the group.Hands On Area – they pound corn, touch furs, and throw corn darts. I hate corn darts, and I delegate a chaperone to make sure nobody puts anyone else’s eye out.Language and Wrap Up – “hello”, “thank you” and “your welcome” in Lenape and then final questions.After that, I take them back through the woods to the picnic area for lunch, and they become their teacher’s problem once again. The guides customarily gather for hot chocolate and commiseration before we usher our schools back to their buses or bail out and head home ourselves. I have learned a few things doing this job:If I get a “What if” question anywhere before Hunting, it is best to switch over to the special “What If Tour", in which I shoot most of the usual What Ifs down before they get a chance to ask. Anything that comes out of a child’s mouth that starts with “One time..” has to be immediately shut down or you’ll be there forever. This job has enabled me to spot a story disguised as a question from a mile off. Children –and adults- are always a little shocked if you cut them off, but a little shock is worth if it keeps everything moving on schedule.If I stand in one place, everyone’s eyes glaze over. Thus, I do a lot of walking around inside the exhibits. I also wave my arms a lot and gesture when I talk. I am frequently asked if I am Italian, which I am not.Teachers are useless for keeping discipline, they expect the tour guide to do it. As a result I identify children by what they’re wearing (“You with the red hat”) and have no qualms about moving one child away from the other, telling people to hush up and sending a persistent offender to walk WITH the teacher. Teachers hate that, but it gets the problem child out of my hair for at least two sites.Chaperones are not to be trusted. Ever. They ask questions that throw off the age-scale of the tour, they never really turn their cell-phones to silent even though you asked them to, and they’ll distract the kids by chatting with each other if you let them. I have no problem telling the adults to be quiet if they’re mucking up my tour, which for some reason shocks them mightily. Every single time.All children of any age are always starving, cold, tired and wanting to know when they’re going to see an animal. The proper responses to questions about lunch, the weather and local fauna are: _“Not yet. Yes, it’s chilly today” and “Most animals avoid large groups of loud children.”_All told, the tour takes about an hour-and-a-half, though it can be cut down to a speedy 45 minutes if there was a bus problem or it’s raining really hard. The ability to project one’s voice is priceless. You have to be louder than they are or they walk all over you. And the last thing? At least one child, or one adult, in every group will corner you to talk about their Native American Ancestry. By the second week of any season I will have had two Cherokees, a Crow, a couple of Sioux and a whole pile of ‘one-sixteenth’ of some tribe they’re not sure the name of. When in doubt: smile, nod, and remind them about the poison ivy.
Monday, July 17th, 2006
5:59 pm	Happy Birthday, Brian! Happy Birthday vale797 !!!! You are surely the most wonderful and terrific of people, and I wish you many, many more birthdays to come, each happier than the one before it!~a
Friday, July 7th, 2006
9:48 am	Happy Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the very lovely and delightful, talented, awesome and super-cute-when-sleepy
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
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Sunday, January 15th, 2006
10:22 am	The Sick I am the sick.sniffleMy throat is sore, I'm all stuffy and miserable. I do NOT approve, not even a little bit.The apartment is freezing, but the heat will hopefully fix that soon. A sizeable amount of snow was dropped on us last night, but bececause of how the wind is blowing, in some places you can see grace, and in others the snow is all drifted. The wind is unreal - my windchime (a gift from bitterbert about a million years ago) is working overtime. Fortunately for me, I have tomorrow off, so today and tomorrow will be spent in the house re-reading the early works of Laurell K. Hamilton while sucking down large quantities of cold medicine, chicken soup, and orange juice. Unfortunately, since we don't HAVE cold medicine, chicken soup or orange juice, I'm going to have to beg my husband to go out in the snow for me to hunt down those items. He hates going out in the snow and cold, so this will not please him, but we does love me a considerable amount, so hopefully it'll even out. ~a Current Mood: sick
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
6:19 pm	Virus Warning Reposted from chestervhe_Hey, if one of your friends chat windows opens up with a "How did your pic get here?" question, do not follow the link.It's a virus vector. Be warned. Just close the window and warn that person via other means that their system may be infected._~a
Monday, December 5th, 2005
9:26 pm	clean up Just took a bunch of folks off who don't post ever, or who don't comment, or who I never really have much to talk about with - nothing personal to anyone, no ill feelings, just streamlining a bit, if folks don't use their LJs or have anything to chat with me about, seems silly to inflict my life on them with its tiresome details. :)~a
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
3:14 pm
Monday, July 25th, 2005
9:28 am	started my day with an hour and change of phone call stupidity with AAA. Can't find the membership number, can't find me in the system, need a different department. Hang up, transfer, automated menus, no, I don't want it in spanish.grrr.FINALLY after giving up and calling my dad to get HIS number to help them find mine, the tow truck is on the way to fetch the car, and Eryq is on HIS way to meet it. The place near us where, hopefully, they can find out what it is and fix it, can see us today, or so they claim.It's probably the starter. Hopefully it won't be a nightmare to fix, money or timewise.It's only 9:30 am and already today is sucking. Gah. ~a Current Mood: aggravated
Friday, June 24th, 2005
9:53 am	Funny! One of my co-workers sent this to me. It had the following header on it. :)"This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter. The accuracy of thiscorrespondence has been checked with Urban Legends. To verify it for yourself go to Snopes.com.<< ( Read more...Collapse ) Current Mood: amused
Saturday, June 4th, 2005
5:59 pm	Loving the Weekend... What an awesome day!I woke up early for some reason - 8:30am, on a saturday!- but he slept in. I had a nap midday tho, while he was playing video games, so we didn't really start moving around until 2pm. Much as I'll miss Will and Mikey and them at EotR tonight (hope it's fun!), I'm glad we decided to take the night off from LARP. EotR is a good 2.5hrs each way for us, so it was nice not to have to be hustling out of the house by midday to make game. This afternoon we went over to Lake Hopatcong, which is maybe 10 minutes from the house, just on the other side of our cute little town of Netcong. I think we're going back tomorrow with a picnic, today we just dropped in so I could get into the water. Beautiful weather, high 70s, brilliant sunshine, perfect blue sky. Summer is definately here! The lake is gorgeous on days like this, vivid blue, with lots of geen trees and nifty houses all around. It's a big lake, so there were boats on the far side, even some jet-skis and things. Enough to provide interesting boat-watching without being annoying or loud, and they were considerate of the swimming area, didn't come too close. The swimming beach wasn't very crowded - just some kids playing marco polo on one side, and two life gaurds on duty keeping them in line. Now, I love to swim, preferably in the bay or ocean, but a lake will do just fine. We had a pool at the last complex in VA, but I'm allergic to chlorine. I can take a dip in hotel pools and hot tubs, things like that, but I can't tolerate it on a regular basis, nor stay in as long as I like. Having a lake so nearby is perfect, even this early in the season the water was really nice - sunwarmed on the top especially, a little cooler near the bottom, but not unpleasant. It had that great smell of good lake water, a mostly sandy bottom, at least in the swimming area, where they made a beach. Reminded me of childhood trips to Point Sabego or Emerald Lake, camping up in Maine and Vermont with my dad. Predictably, I forgot to put on my sunblock, and even though it was almost 3pm when we arrived, I still got a little color. It won't fade to a tan, of course. Just like all good little goths (or ex-goths, really, I think I'm too happy and fond of pastels to really BE a goth now that I'm old and married), no matter how much time I spend in the sun every day, I only ever shift from 'white' to 'red' and back again. Ah well. Eryq didn't feel like swimming, he stayed sensibly in the shade with his book. Today was an experimental trip, so we only stayed a little while, just long enough for me to get a good swim. Hunger drove us forth from the pretty scene, and we hit the Shop-Rite on the way home for sodas and lunchable goodness. Late afternoon has been full of reading and hanging out. Dinner will be late, since lunch was at 4:00, but that's fine by me. I got the kitchen cleaned up, and the open windows and fans are keeping the house very pleasant. NJ is definately a gentler climate then VA - much less humidity, and cooler all around. We haven't even had to turn on the AC yet this year, we're trying to avoid it as long as humanly possible. In VA, we usually managed to make it to mid-may before we bowed to the need for AC, so having the house open to the air is really fun.I love it here, I really do. My mother says to me, "don't you feel like you live somewhere?" and I can answer in the affirmative, every time. Granted, one always lives somewhere, but she's referring to living some place great, some place that has value of itself, not just because your home happens to be there. Much as we miss all our lovely Mid-Atlantic peeps (and we do miss you!) the quality of life here in NJ is just so much higher, so many more things of the type that we really like to do. Work situations are infinately better for both of us, and at heart, neither of us are city people. It's funny, I always sort of thought of Jersey as an ugly, trashy sort of place (Elizabeth, anyone?) but where we live is low mountains, forests and lakes, vacation land. Cute little towns with community theatres, parades, historical houses. The farmers market will be open soon, and I can't wait. Local produce around here should be fabulous. Tomorrow we will probably head back to the lake, earlier in the day and better prepared, with a picnic. I'm not sure the weather will cooperate, there are to be storms in the afternoon, but hopefully I can get a swim in earlier. Next weekend, weather and work permitting, we may go check out the Lakota Wolf Preserve in Columbia, NJ -(about 25 miles from here) - and Camp Taylor, which has cabins for rent, boat rentals, lake, nature trails, etc. I don't think we'll stay over, but a day trip could be a lot of fun, and I really want to see the wolves and bobcats at the preserve. :)~a Current Mood: happy
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
8:12 am	Wild Weekend Saturday Morning - work.Work was okay, but it started out rough - seems that snoozer, the calf, got rabies somehow in the last couple weeks. ( Read more...Collapse )Things lightened up though as the day went on. We had a big group from Youth and Family Services, they'd organized a festival type thing for forster kids and families, so there were lots there. Music, games, etc. Down at the barn, and we had a little flock of kids (of the goat kind) and lambs bouncing around. We got them in a temporary pen but they started chewing through the netting early on, so there was about fifteen minutes of lamb/kid catch and transfer, putting them into the larger, more permanent pen. Trouble was, they kept jumping or wiggling out, it wasn't designed to keep in little animals. So then we'd have to chase them down and catch them again. They were very bouncy and cute. I heard from my boss later that there was a similiar jailbreak amongst the chickens, hilarity all around.After THAT I got tapped to help with pony rides, or rather, one shetland pony, one medium-sized quarter horse and one giant thoroughbred, 17 hands high. Big damn horse. ( Read more...Collapse )Eryq dropped by in the afternoon, because I wanted to show him around. So we took a quick walking tour, I introduced him to a few folks, and then I was ready to bail out - it was about 3:30. It was slow enough that I felt no guilt, so off we went back home. I took a much needed shower.I napped for a little while and drank a LOT of water - dehydrated all to heck from being in the sun all day- and then we rallied and went off to see Revenge of the Sith.Aside from both of us having to snarl at the obnoxious kids behind us - Eryq's snarl, as you might imagine, was more effective than mine- we had a good time at the movie. Aside from the cruddy dialogue, I liked it pretty well - they did the one thing I really, really wanted them to do, which was to give me a visual segue between the these 'new' first three episodes, and the other 3. Towards the end, the hallways, sets, etc, started looking 'right' to me, that all-white plastic ship hallway, the little toasters on wheels skittering out of Vader's way - I was happy.We got out of the movie at 10:30pm, and stopped by the Budd Lake Diner (tasty, 24 hours!) to pick up some take-out. One nice thing about New Jersey - lots of Diners, it's easy to get food late at night that isn't MacDonalds, which was not the case in Falls Church. Late supper was had with Empire Strikes Back (we'd just seen the A New Hope the other day), but I got tired and went off to bed before we hit cloud city.All in all? A very nice weekend. Today is gray and rainy and I don't have to go out in it, so I'm going to relax and take it easy before Monday comes roaring down the tracks. :)~a Current Mood: cheerful
Friday, May 20th, 2005
3:48 pm	drip drip drip.. ...wow, what a wet day.It rained all morning, and of course, this was the day we had 18 classes coming through the Village. Did they cancel? No. They showed. Every last one of them.Ayii......I was soaked through by about 10:00am, before I'd even gotten them out of the picnic area. Cold, wet, but the kids were okay so it worked out fairly well. Had to skip the Archeology exhibit because of a jam up, but I got them through and back to their nice warm bus. Thankfully, I had an extra long-sleeved shirt in my car, so I was able to put on a dry shirt under my polo before I did the second tour. Also managed to get a cup of hot chocolate to take along with me as I was heading back out into the wet woods.The rain DID stop, so I didn't get any MORE wet, and my pants dried pretty well, so I was mostly damp and chilly, instead of soaked and miserable, for the second tour. The kids were AWESOME, great teachers, good chaperones, it was a godsend, if the kids had been bad, as cold and icky as it was, it could've been a lot worse. As it was, we had a lot of fun, even with the weather.One funny moment - the power went out, all through the village, and up the highway nearby, so, as we got into the Shaman's longhouse.... Abby: "Okay, lets take a look at our Shaman.." (tries light..no light. VERY dark longhouse)Abby: "Okay, Let's TALK about our Shaman..."Fortunately, one of the chaperones had a little flashlight on her keyring, so I was able to spotlight the shaman's stuff, his necklace, the herbs, etc. They all jumped a mile when I shook the rattle, it was great. :)After a kick ass tour full of happy kids, parents, and teacher, I got them back to the gift shop, met up with Henry and we drove in this truck back out the the village (SO tired of walking, yay truck!) to clean up. We got everything locked up tight and then realized we still had spears in the back, so we ended up sliding them under the door of Archeology to stay dry, since we didn't have keys to UNLOCK things. Finally went to clock out - power's still out, so we wrote our departure time on the sheet and hopped into nice warm dry cars. Here I am, one hot shower and bowl of soup later, feeling much more like a real live person. I had a good day, despite the rain. Totally exhausted, though, I think Star Wars is gonna wait until sunday. Tomorrow is Baby Animal Day, and I'm going to be there for most of it, should be fun. The weather, thankfully, is supposed to get nice.BTW...just as I'm finishing this up? Here comes the sun. A bit late, bucko!:)~a Current Mood: amused
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
3:33 pm	Work was pretty good today - nice kids, reasonable sized group. Had to do a turbo-tour, push them through quickly, but it all turned out okay.The goslings are out! Fluffy yellow and gray baby geese all over the place, escorted always by mum and dad. SO cute. The snapping turtles in the pond try to eat them, but so far my two fave families are all in tact. There were also about 5,000 chipmunks running around today, itsy cute stripped things scampering about. Rumor has it we have a baby groundhog, but I haven't seen him.It's clouding up now but the day itself was glorious, warm in the sunshine, cool breezes, drenched in sunlight. The lilacs are blooming, and some wonderful sweet bushes near the footbridge - don't know what they are, but they smell awesome. I shut down lenape today after all the kids were gone, with a co-worker, and even though it was kind of a pain, it was nice to be back off in the woods with nobody around. There were tons of turtles out in the pond, a little garden snake in the shallows, a bunch of toads and a tiny cute peeper frog on the path up to the Village. The birds are almost as fun - the geese and goslings, the swans on the canal. I saw Baltimore Oriols and Red Winged Blackbirds all over the place today, and a lot of bright yellow birds that look like canaries - might be goldfinches.On the homefront -my tomatos and basil died, not enough sunshine, but the pansies are doing well and there are blue jays coming around. Even though they're obnoxious, I like them because of the bright colors, and how bold they are. I do like living here. :)~a Current Mood: cheerful
Friday, April 15th, 2005
3:35 pm	Household Letters Dear Vacuum: I hate you. You hate me. Without you, my rugs are scary. Without me, you have no purpose. So let's cut the crap and just get on with it, all right?Thank you.~The Management-------------------------Dear Cats:We've been over this. Freshly washed hardwood floors are extremely slippery, and, moreover, will make your feet taste yucky when you try and wash them after sliding headlong across the hallway while trying to escape the (admitedly demon-infested) vacuum. Please do not give me reproachful looks when you a)slide and b)rediscover the nasty taste of lemon soap.~MomPS: This apartment contains a couch, a bed, several comfy chairs, your very own multi-level clmbing unit and a giant terry-cloth aligator that has been given over for your exclusive use after repeated hostile negotiations. Is it absolutely necessary for you to both nap exclusively in the (formerlly) clean and cathair-free laundry I had set out to dry? Current Mood: aggravated
Wednesday, June 18th, 2003
5:30 pm	ashoeMagic Number15JobConservationistPersonalityChancerTemperamentSteelySexualWhatever, Whenever, WhoeverLikely To WinA Duel With PistolsMe - In A WordUniqueColourBrought to you by MemeJack
Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
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Friday, March 7th, 2003
12:00 pm	FYI--some product recalls RecallsConagra Grocery Products Has Recalled Hunt's Tomatoes SauceReason: The product is unfit for food due to being held in swollen cans.Distribution: Nationwide and Mexico.Navajo Manufacturing Has Recalled Motrin IB and DayQuil LiquiCapsReason: Mispackaged by Recaller; packets of Motrin IB were incorrectly repackaged in hanging card packages labeled to contain DayQuil LiquiCaps.Distribution: Nationwide.Tom's of Maine Has Recalled Natural Nasal DecongestantReason: Misbranded; dosing instructions for adults/children 12 yrs & older will only provide half of the required amount of active ingredient.Distribution: Nationwide.Schering-Plough Has Recalled Feen-A-Mint TabletsReason: Disintegration: failure due to tablet softening.Distribution: Nationwide.Akorn Has Recalled DrugsReason: Container/closure integrity problems; leaking containers.Distribution: Nationwide, Bahamas, Israel, the Phillipines, Canada and Australia.Caremark Pharmaceutical Has Recalled Toprol-XLReason: Mislabeling; bottles labeled as containing 100 mg tablets actually contain Toprol XL, 50 mg. Tablets.Distribution: Nationwide.Tom's Of Maine Has Recalled Nasal DecongestantReason: Misbranded; dosing instructions for children ages 2 to 6 will provide excessive amounts of active ingredient.Distribution: Nationwide.
Saturday, March 1st, 2003
1:51 pm	So, I guess I'll have to change my LJ name... ...when I change my LAST name, sometime next fall.I hope you'll wish us happy, peoples, 'cause Eryq and I are getting married. I've got my sparkly new ring and everything, we're officially NVA's latest engaged couple. :)a Current Mood: ecstatic

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