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Terrible impulses I have:

Obviously, everyone is well within their rights to make their own choices in the areas of clothing, footwear, etc. However. When it is cold enough that I am wearing a sweater and pair of wool socks under my black stompy boots, and people walk into the library wearing flip-flops, I will admit that there is always a little voice in the back of my head yelling, "Put some actual frelling shoes on!"

I don't actually say this outloud. But I almost always think it.

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Library conversation:


Patron: So...what's the difference between fiction and a myth?

Me: Well, fiction is any story that's made up, and...let me look up an exact definition. Okay, a myth is a sacred narrative. So something about gods and divine heroes.

Patron: But it's still just fiction.

Me: Insofar as the Bible is fiction, yes.



(I...should probably not have said that last thing. But a) it's true and b) as a person who currently has to clarify when I talk to people about my religion that no, I am not talking about Tom Hiddleston, I am a little touchy about anyone's sacred stories being dismissed as "just fiction".

Fortunately, the patron was not offended and then went on to ask me who had originally written the Greek myths. Yes.)

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Dear America,

You did not elect The Smiler. Well done.




We're not going to definitively find out about whether or not Measure 74 passed till later, what with being a mail-in-only state, but I'm pretty hopeful. And hey, congrats to Maine and Maryland! Tomorrow, also, marijuana may be legal in my state, so that's interesting.

All in all, I'm pretty happy.