Res Ipsa Loquitur

Pretty hysterical video from “current.com superstar” (?!) Sarah Haskins, explaining the need for delicacy when discussing female ladyparts.  It has quite a few laugh out loud moments.

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11am

Antigay ad from the Illinois Family Institute.

I will put this up against any crazy ass shit from Al Queada, starring a foaming at the mouth Osama bin Ladan.  This is on the same batshit level - these folks are NO FUCKING DIFFERENT.  Religious fucking fanatics consumed with hatred.

And, to tie it into tax day, they probably enjoy a nonprofit tax deduction.

1pm

President Obama reading Where the Wild Things Are

I kind of love this.

12pm

FB rabbit holes

I got stuck in my FB rabbit hole yesterday and finally just had to walk away, shaking my head.  I am so confused - I mean, legitmately confused.

One ex’s wife requested me as a friend (months ago) and I accepted, not realizing who she was (although it was possible we were acquaintances 20 years ago), and I think another ex’s wife has blocked me, which makes even less sense.    I should add that I haven’t been in contact with either of these men for years and, until yesterday, never even searched for them on FB.

And that is just the beginning of the weirdness.  It is one of those things that I actually would love internet advice on, but description of the whole story implicates another’s privacy, and I guard confidences and privacy.  Also, I kind of come across as a complete jackass in the telling, so the moral of the story is “don’t tempt FB rabbit holes.”

lilyb:

Don’t know what’s going on in the Facebook universe this week (tax procrastinating maybe?) but a bunch of old boyfriends and crushes have gotten back in touch this week. I post this song here because it would just be too awkward to announce this anywhere else.

Karion - talk about rabbit holes.

Here’s the song to fit my mood. And thanks to the posts and reposts of EJ’s Mona Lisas + Mad Hatters to remind me just who to go to to nail it.

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12pm

In dating, you’re either playing a mind game or taking brave, slightly drunk leaps of faith. Personally, if I wanted to date a mind game, I’d curl up nekkid with a Sudoku book.

Via it's such a perfect day

11am

What's in a name?

When my ex and I finalized our split, nearly 1.5 years ago, I made the last minute decision to change my name back to my maiden name.  I told myself that I would continue to use my married name professionally, but would gradually shift everything back to my maiden name.

I had very mixed feelings about changing it back.  On one hand, it seemed to negate the previous 14 years of my life, and everyone in my life now knows me by that name.  On the other hand, why I am using the last name of someone to whom I am not married?  On the third hand, the one that vibrates, I built a professional reputation on that name and did not want to, as the cool kids say, rebrand.  Finally, on the fourth hand, I actually liked my married name better.  A little more mainstream, kind of cool sounding.  Plus, I finally lost the unfortunate nickname from the maiden name that EVERYONE makes.

There is a fifth hand here that bears worth mentioning: shortly before we got married, my ex legally changed his last name back to his birth name.  He had been adopted by his stepfather as a kid.  His mother had long since divorced him and my ex no longer had any relationship with him.  He didn’t want me to take that name, so we both effectively changed our last names when we got married.

Well, I haven’t done much to change it back, even though it has been my legal name this whole time.  I tried the hyphenate thing recently and it seems completely disingenuous.   I am at a fish-or-cut-bait moment and I think I am going to cut the line.  It is just so awkward, in so many ways, but seeing as my ex is getting remarried later this year, it kind of seems ridiculous to hold onto his name.

Even though I sort of think of it as mine, too.  And weirdly, we happened to be on the phone very late a few weeks ago because he got pulled over and needed advice.  I heard him say to the cop, “I am on the phone with my attorney, [my name, using his], please give me a few minutes to consult with her.”

So for fifteen years, I have used this surname, but I used another for the previous two decades.  I think I have answered my own question here, as writing tends to do, but I can get myopic and the internet, she is never short of opinions.

9pm

C.J. Cregg does The Jackal, The West Wing (Season One)

It would take too long to explain why this popped in my head today, but I YouTubed it and it was just as awesome as I remember.

4pm

Jack Johnson, A Pirate Looks at 40 (Jimmy Buffett cover)

It is all piratey this week.

12pm

Don't ask, don't tell

Is sort of my philosophy on exes.   As a general rule, I don’t google, facebook or twitter stalk anyone, and on those rare occasions where I do, I usually stop after seeing just the very basic information.  It isn’t my business, and if we aren’t still in contact, there is probably a very good reason.

I just stumbled upon an old love and I went down a mini rabbit hole.  While I am easily gobsmacked, I am rarely speechless, but now I am.  I….am without words.  Absolutely nothing that I saw remotely resembled the guy I loved.  I kept thinking it couldn’t be him, even though it was the same name, same small suburb, same resume and basic same appearance (except for the hair).

The most horrifying discovery?  He is now the kind of guy who uses “u” for “you” in his twitters.  It is like I never knew him.

12pm