Humid Beings

@champsuperstar Champ's Mississippi Bubble? Aw HELL naw.

Mazel tov to @hungrytermite on her new uptown digs. Enjoy!

Damn, John Glenn is 90. He's older than my grandpa by a few months. I'm not sure why that freaks me out...

I take a wet/dry vac to my car and then my husband's car is in dire need of the same treatment. Thanks, @NOLArain.

I'd lurve to continue to organize my recent Flickr pics, but clouds are a-gathering. @NOLArain, please hold off 'til I get home.

RT @ClaraJeffery: Borders shutting all remaining stores. Not unsurprising but not great news for those who rely in part on newsstand $$  ...

RT @mary_menville: HEY CAN WE ADMIT THAT THIS IS STUPID YET? RT @bcmerchant: #BP responsible for another #oilspill -- this time in Alask ...

RT @rsmithTP: I hope exceptions will be made about launching shuttles into space in case oil rig workers need to destroy an asteroid hea ...

Oh, and anyone mailing anything at the Louisiana Ave post office? Don't exit it out Saratoga, as that street is a LAKE. #nola

Okay, water in my car and a snail crawling up the passenger side? I'd say there was some street flooding today. #nola

Whoa, @NOLArain is obviously making up for slackoff time.

RT @HumidCity: Crime rises with the mercury in New Orleans http://ow.ly/5GGRp

Still here in New Orleans. Still on Hawaii time. Arrrrrrggghhh, jet lag. 8-P

@hungrytermite Gonna have to handle that tomorrow when I can get to a coffee shop wifi. Haven't figured how to do it using the Droid. 8-/

Watching Red Dwarf 8 now that we have a working TV & DVD player.

RT @elsbet: Okay, yet another failed charter. Missing paychecks at Capitol High Academy - WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |: http://t.co ...

WAMBACH, baby. #WWC

PENALTY KICKS. #WWC

RT @AmandaMarcotte: One way or another:no vuvuzelas. #wereallwinners

RT @DavidCornDC: Hey, here's an idea: penalty kicks for the debt talks. #WWC

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A traveling frame of mind has overtaken me, as it tends to do this time of year. Hey, between our extended families living in faraway places and Dan's need to stay in all 50 states at some point in his lifetime, we travel. And though in coming weeks, we will…

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"What are you doing about it?" Dad asked when I told him about the recent Louisiana Science Education Act repeal attempts rearing up only to get smacked down. "So you think this is awful and stupid, which it is. So what are you doing about it?"Well, yeah, I wrote about…

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Well, the parents of my son's school have kind of gotten what they wanted.  Emphasize "kind of":After failed attempts to arrive at an acceptable mitigation plan with the LA Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ), the Orleans Parish School Board announced today that it will postpone its Audubon Charter renovation project until further…

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Time flies when family is concerned. It seems to do so more now than when I was a kid in my parents' house yearning to be free of the obligatory visits, the cards, the gifts, the constant remembrances that hold families together in these times when - more often than…

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I'm a tired broad who has fallen full-on into the Twittersphere since the past couple of early-week posts here.  It's too easy now that I have a smartphone. Throw in the mad dash to clean the house before the in-laws arrived atop the work being done on our house at…

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So, lately The Gambit's Twitter account hasn't exactly been the bearer of good news...among its latest tidbits of legislators behaving badly came this one from last week:BREAKING: @RepealtheLSEA fails by 1-5 vote of state education committee. Sole vote to repeal: Yvonne Dorsey, D-Baton Rouge....followed by this insult to that injury:LSEA: "All…

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Even though I own a copy of it, I've been reluctant to watch Who Does She Think She Is? in large part because I've lived large portions of what the artists in the documentary have gone through. I still see myself and my ongoing struggles in any book or essay,…

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It's a crazy dilemma, to be sure.Yes, my son's school building is in dire need of the renovations that are planned to be going on for the next couple of years.  Yes, the kids can't be attending school in that same building with all that work going on.  Yes, I'm…

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I've been out of the posting loop this week, as I'm still coming down from the successful launch of Endeavour I got to see from 3 miles away.Tell the truth, it feels kind of like this:Yep, that's ET-122 falling back to Earth.  Mesmerizing, isn't it?Yeah....*blink*Back to life on this planet…

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Here we go again, this time in the early morning. Yep, I'm there. Again. Just give the #NASATweetup hashtag a follow.

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We here are happy to be back after Blogger's nervous breakdown. Hey, I'd be needing a vacation, too, if I had to keep track of all these posts all by my lonesome. There may still be some hiccuping here and there with the system, but unlike so many I know,…

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My flood photos from the past few days.The Mississippi River is a-rising, and it hasn't even crested here yet.More on all this from me at Humid City.

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It's hard to write about the NASA Tweetup I attended nearly two weeks ago. Somewhat surprisingly so."I've decided: you should stay," my husband said over the phone as I was waiting for the motorcade of the president of the United States to pass us by.  The arguments spilled out of…

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From a message to parents of my son's school concerning a fundraiser:...donations support critical operating needs, including salaries for additional teachers and teaching assistants and teacher professional development....  It is important that (said school) have high family participation because foundations often want to know if we have the support of our own…

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Despite my previous post, there will be some NASA Tweetup posts coming.  Didn't think I was gonna let it all slip by, did you?'Til then, here's something to contemplate: I didn't notice this sign outside the diner I ate in on the first day of the tweetup until I overheard…

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A vacation from this past week's vacation is sorely needed, almost no question.  Not that I didn't enjoy myself, but the highs and lows in such a short period of time have been short-circuitous to my brain and psyche.  I should have taken a huge hint from the universe when…

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Follow all of us tweeting from the STS 134 tweetup here.  It's Endeavour's final trip into space, and tweeting's the only thing I can do right now.

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Just for the hell of it, I signed up through NASA's website and thought there was no way in hell I'd get picked to see one of the last two shuttle launches - and, even if I did get picked, one of them was scheduled for Passover.  There was definitely…

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Even though I was never much good at math, the first thing to pop into my head when I contemplated it was an equation:(X + car) NY traffic = ZX = family memberZ = the driving experience (which, depending on the variable X, can indeed vary widely)I guess, as a…

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Ah, Passover......that time of year when that burning question is on the mind of every Gentile leader throughout the world...Yeah, it's tasteless, and so are some of the attempts to make, say, kosher for Passover beer.Chag sameach, everybody.

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"What if we win?"

Many, many men will be walking the streets wearing dresses. THAT'S where the guys'll be found. It will absolutely be like Christmas is here again, Mardi Gras came a bit early in black and gold, and JazzFest, Voodoo, and Essence Fest came to play together. For a week. Maybe a…

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"You don't have to put on the red light cameras"

Cameras at school zones - yes. But there are LOADS of 20 MPH school zone signs with flashers needed. That should have been the priority first for all the schools, and not just Sacred Heart and Trinity. Working crime cameras would be an asset. WORKING ones. Red light cameras -…

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"Holiday recommendation"

I too got a kick out of seeing the Deduct Box when I was at the Roosevelt on Sunday night. Gonna have to go back sometime and read the description on it. And thanks for the mention of Ride's plight.

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"The Oyster Filter: a new HumidBeings feature"

Mazel tov on your Filter, you treif thing, you! You're missing the "Off" in Brown's book title, btw.

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"Supa Vice - World Premiere of New Supa Saint Video"

Was that Jim McMahon Supa was partying next to at the stadium?

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"@QueenofSpain You sure that's not a Mary Kay Commando's Uzi? Drew Brees can kick that thing with his pink cleats."

He'll be wearing 'em for breast cancer awareness this coming Sunday.