New community: Contented Aunts

This arose from a discussion in catamorphism's journal, about the distinction between people who are happy to be childfree--but like children and are glad to have one or more children in our lives--and people who dislike children.

If you're happy to be an aunt or uncle, by blood or choice, you might want to join. contented_aunts is open and unmoderated. It's a place to talk about being an aunt/uncle. I'd like this to be as open as possible: if you're happily an aunt now and might have children later, or your children are grown but your younger sibling has made you an uncle, and feel like hanging out here, that's fine too.

Edited: I fixed the tag--had a space instead of an underscore.

New community: Contented Aunts

This arose from a discussion in catamorphism's journal, about the distinction between people who are happy to be childfree--but like children and are glad to have one or more children in our lives--and people who dislike children.

If you're happy to be an aunt or uncle, by blood or choice, you might want to join. contented_aunts is open and unmoderated. It's a place to talk about being an aunt/uncle. I'd like this to be as open as possible: if you're happily an aunt now and might have children later, or your children are grown but your younger sibling has made you an uncle, and feel like hanging out here, that's fine too.

Edited: I fixed the tag--had a space instead of an underscore.

"common Romance"

In the course of this afternoon, I've read a few paragraphs of French on alt.poly--in a discussion of the relative advantages of Montreal and Quebec City as alt.polycon sites--and glossed Catalan names in Fred Lerner's fanzine writeup of his trip to Barcelona.

I've never studied either language, but I know Spanish moderately well, which is enough to fake reading Catalan (I've never tried speaking it, and for all I know my guesses on pronunciation--which basically assume that whoever made the spelling rules spoke and wrote Spanish--are completely off, but they do for saying names in my head, and glossing the meanings of building names and such.) and is probably part of what my rudimentary knowledge of French is built on.

Meanwhile, it's cool and damp, as if to try convincing me that Labor Day really is the end of Summer, and the smoke detector is beeping to tell me that its battery is low. It will just have to keep beeping until cattitude gets home, because I can't reach it. [Update: it wasn't the smoke detector, it was Cattitude's cell phone--high-pitched beeps are very hard to localize.]

"common Romance"

In the course of this afternoon, I've read a few paragraphs of French on alt.poly--in a discussion of the relative advantages of Montreal and Quebec City as alt.polycon sites--and glossed Catalan names in Fred Lerner's fanzine writeup of his trip to Barcelona.

I've never studied either language, but I know Spanish moderately well, which is enough to fake reading Catalan (I've never tried speaking it, and for all I know my guesses on pronunciation--which basically assume that whoever made the spelling rules spoke and wrote Spanish--are completely off, but they do for saying names in my head, and glossing the meanings of building names and such.) and is probably part of what my rudimentary knowledge of French is built on.

Meanwhile, it's cool and damp, as if to try convincing me that Labor Day really is the end of Summer, and the smoke detector is beeping to tell me that its battery is low. It will just have to keep beeping until cattitude gets home, because I can't reach it. [Update: it wasn't the smoke detector, it was Cattitude's cell phone--high-pitched beeps are very hard to localize.]

I can and will delete comments if sufficiently provoked

So please stop quoting Vanna Bonta in my journal.

I can and will delete comments if sufficiently provoked

So please stop quoting Vanna Bonta in my journal.