And What's More ...

[copied from dland]

Postscript to my last entry: As I said, my mother's mother's family was not religious -- they were what used to be called Free Thinkers, which was a prelude to being a Secular Jew, which is, I guess, what I am -- and so keeping kosher wasn't even a thought to them. But my mother's father was raised Orthodox, and held those beliefs and customs all his life as best he could, so my grandmother did keep a kosher home for him. However, one of my grandmother's sisters -- Aunt Becky -- was very good at business, and at one time, she and her husband ran a deli. An Italian deli, of all things! So from time to time, my grandmother would take my mother and her brother there and they would gleefully partake of the sausage and ham and other foods that they couldn't have at home.

Second postcript to my last entry: When My Fair Lady was over, Gone With the Wind came on. **deep and repeated sighs** As soon as the music started, I was swept away (no pun intended.) When I hear "Tara's Theme", I start to sway back and forth. I cry often when I watch this movie, and over the years, it's more and more because of the horrors of war that this movie shows, I think, particularly well. It shows them from the home front, a home front being devastated itself. It gets me when all the young southern men run off gladly to fight, because they have no idea what's coming. When all the families wait to get the lists of the wounded and killed at Gettysburg, and every family has at least one loss, it's heartbreaking. And of course, the famous scene of the train depot with all the bodies lying helpless, waiting for medical care or death. Say what you will about Gone With the Wind, what it does well it does exceptionally well.

Let's talk politics. David Geffen, in his recent show of support for Barack Obama, said that Hillary Clinton would be the easiest candidate for the Republicans to defeat. And I think he's right. A presidential candidate needs to be, as they say, Caesar's Wife; that is, above suspicion. Clean as a whistle. Hillary is not. There is too much the opposition can attack her on, and that makes her a bad candidate. What can they say about Obama that we know of? He did drugs in college? Yeah, well, he's already said that himself, moving on. Hillary -- and I like her, for the most part -- is just not good candidate material.

I'm not 100% behind Obama either; his lack of experience disturbs me. Edwards, for some reason, seems to have more; he's my favorite at the moment. I like Bill Richardson, too, but I don't think he's in for the long haul. Now he's got experience, as does Joe Biden, but he doesn't have the charisma to win the nomination.

I'm pulling for an Edwards-Obama ticket at this point. I think they have the best shot.

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It's a little after 6:30 am. They've declared a delayed opening of school today, so instead of leaving now, as I usually would, I'll leave in two hours. I don't know what to do with myself.

The Hubs emailed that his drive to work was not terrible, but of course, there are hardly any other cars on the road when he goes at 5:30. As for K, well, Houston. (We've got a problem) The college is open. The public schools in the town the college is in are closed for the day, not a delayed opening, but closed. The college, I think, must believe that the students who live on campus can get to class, so, no problem, but it's maybe an 80% commuter school, so what's up with that? She and I decided that she'll skip her first class -- she emailed the professor -- and then see what develops. As always, I'm most worried about her night class that gets out at 8:00 pm, by which time the walkways and parking lots there, as well as all the roads, should be pretty slick and frozen.

Ooh, hot flash time! How nice that I have all this extra time and haven't put my make-up on yet.

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Later. Much later.

I won't go into my day, since I've already vented to the Sibs and a bit in email to the Chum, and anyway, I'm not there anymore, so things are a bit better, and I've heard from K so I know she didn't die on the way to school and since the roads aren't that bad she probably won't die on the way home, and so in general, my totally sucky day has eased up some and I'm not going there tomorrow, so that's good. The audiologist's office says that just maybe my hearing aids will be in tomorrow, but I don't think so and I'm not counting on it. I gained a pound since yesterday, it seems, so that bummed me out first thing this morning, but now I'm going to eat a nice Lean Cuisine and look forward to Heroes tonight.

Signing off.


WATCHING REBA :: ENTRY #1386