Mortaine’s Blog

Sept. 16: CineMar meeting
Sept. 18-19: 19: Drawing class
Maybe I will get John to take me out to the woods and draw while he goes hiking…
Sept. 24-25: In San Francisco for V/Blog conference (? still on?) and rally.
Oct. 1-2: 2: Drawing class
Oct. 8-9: SiliCon with vlog. 9: Drawing class
Oct. 10: Columbus Day, John off of work.
Oct. 15-16:
Oct. 22-23:
Oct. 27-29: SCMLA Conference
Oct. 29-30:
Nov. 3?-6: Las Vegas

St. John’s:

Eco-villa weekly rate: $600
Airfare: $700 each
SCUBA: $130/day (2 trips/day)

Approx. cost: $2700

Last night I dreamed I ran away from home. On a motorcycle. With my ex brother-in-law. Only I wanted to bring my cat with me, which didn’t work so well. I found him at a highway rest stop. I also dreamed that a woman had given birth to twins and wanted to put them in eggs and bury them in the ocean, where they could be harvested later by foster families. I offered to adopt the twins, since they looked just like Allegro (they started out looking like children and morphed into black, furry cats with sweet dispositions).

John and I have been watching House lately. Well, I’ve been watching, and he’s been sitting on the couch unable to turn off the DVD player. Poor man. We’ve decided it’s like Columbo only with medicine. When you watch them all at once, the plots of the episodes are all the same.

Last night’s episode had the line that I recognize as quoting: “Real women have flesh and bone and curves and–” “You have little people inside you.” Bwahahah. Cute. The woman in the episode is the woman who gave birth in my dream.

Things I wish I had more time to do:
spin yarn
knit
draw
write!
read
volunteer
vlog
work on that paper I’m supposed to present in October (eep!)

I would never do this.

Police said no charges had been filed against the parents.

“Basically, the parents thought they were providing for the protection of the children from themselves and from each other,” said Sommers.

I’m hoping the kids had rabies. That’s pretty much the only good reason I can think of for treating them like animals.

The parents should be locked up. In little cages. And have things thrown at them.

Update: According to a link that found (you guys will just love this), the majority of the kids had autism.

Tempts me to make a userpic of a puzzle piece kicking the crap out of a so-called “normal” person for locking her in a cage.

I think fostering is a great thing, a noble thing that we manage to royally fuck up repeatedly. Why, oh why, do we repeatedly put the most vulnerable in our society into the hands of those least capable of caring for them?