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Jan. 21st, 2009 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkYou only get sworn in as President once, it'd be nice if they could not screw it up. Almost as bad as Neil Armstrong blowing his lines.
Aside from that, it was my brother's birfday. He turned 21. This is a perplexing development, as I'm fairly sure he was a small baby yesterday.
And something quite good was accomplished by a person dear to my heart! (I almost wrote that something good "happened to" her, but that would be very inaccurate.) A painful chapter was closed and a new beginning embarked upon. Sorry this is about as detailed as a newspaper horoscope, but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to tell people about it. :P
My sinuses didn't explode. A friend suggested I boil water and put a towel over my head and breathe the steam, which was sound advice. I can sort of breathe now, which is an improvement, though talking is touch and go.
I discovered there is a "low cost" optometry clinic somewhere, which I need because I don't have eyeball insurance and my glasses aren't glassing very well. To sign up for it you apparently have to call on a Thursday between 11:30 and 12:00. To be honest this is not very encouraging, but we'll see. I expect there's a long waiting list.
Aside from that, it was my brother's birfday. He turned 21. This is a perplexing development, as I'm fairly sure he was a small baby yesterday.
And something quite good was accomplished by a person dear to my heart! (I almost wrote that something good "happened to" her, but that would be very inaccurate.) A painful chapter was closed and a new beginning embarked upon. Sorry this is about as detailed as a newspaper horoscope, but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to tell people about it. :P
My sinuses didn't explode. A friend suggested I boil water and put a towel over my head and breathe the steam, which was sound advice. I can sort of breathe now, which is an improvement, though talking is touch and go.
I discovered there is a "low cost" optometry clinic somewhere, which I need because I don't have eyeball insurance and my glasses aren't glassing very well. To sign up for it you apparently have to call on a Thursday between 11:30 and 12:00. To be honest this is not very encouraging, but we'll see. I expect there's a long waiting list.
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Date: 2009-01-21 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-21 06:46 pm (UTC)Obama started repeating the first part too soon. This, presumably, threw off the chief justice, who then misplaced the adverb (to the 3rd of 3 possible positions, instead of the first).
Obama then started to repeat that, then stopped, realizing Roberts had messed it up, Roberts jumped in at that point to try to correct it, but Obama was already past the proper (first) position, so Roberts moves it to the 2nd position. Then Obama ignores him and repeats the first thing he said with it in the 3rd.
Concatenation of unfelicitous speech acts, as they say.
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Date: 2009-01-21 02:03 pm (UTC)And it wasn't Obama who screwed up! It was Roberts! Obama stood there patiently waiting until Roberts untangled his tongue.
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Date: 2009-01-21 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-22 01:00 am (UTC)