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• 21:30/3.2K.
  
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• Few things are as bittersweet as your kid asking your advice on matters of the heart.
  
  
• Justin: ...and yeah, it was a pretty good day. I had fun. And I finished all my homework before I left. And oh my God, Mama, please teach me some science. Do you know what we're studying right now? Gravity!
  
  
• Spent much of the weekend feeling kinda Viking-y, listening to ABBA and putting together IKEA furniture.
  
  
• I went to a book launch!
  
  
• Started watching Roots.
  
  Daniel: Wow. I wonder how many of the people who watched this series when it came out totally missed the point.
  
  Me: Well, whoever made the intro announcement, for one. "From primitive Africa, to the Old South..."
  
  Also in the category of Just Didn't Get It, behold the list of "stars" from Roots: Cicely Tyson, LeVar Burton, OJ Simpson, Louis Gossett Jr., Lloyd Bridges, Burl Ives, Vic Morrow, Ralph Waite, Ben Vereen, Leslie Uggams, George Stanford Brown, John Amos, Ed Asner, Lorne Greene, Lynda Day George, and Chuck Connors.
  
  What's wrong with that list?
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  OK, how about this: half of them are white.
  
  Because after all, it is always All About Us. ::sigh::
  
  
• After a couple of rather stressed-out weeks, I think Daniel is beginning to get used to the workload of IB. ::crossing fingers:: He went to the Chess Club today. And won :D :D