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Folding laundry.

[Cynthia]

Barb wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "I thought we asked Justin to leave."

He's had his warnings. He's on his last leg."

I gave him a stern what for about two weeks ago. I was nice about it, but I didn't want to be.

[Jammies]

Jim wrote: "Jammies. go home."

I did! And I am now wearing eponymous clothing and sipping coffee and twiddling my toes in my red fuzzy slippers. :)

[Cynthia]

Twiddle on, Jammies.

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

Ten min to go for me.

[[deleted user]]

Eating at Masa. I officially love ridiculously overpriced Japanese food.

[janine]

watching bones & eating lunch. dead bodies don't kill my appetite.

[RandomAnthony]

Heh. I know that feeling, Janine.

I'm in a coffee shop in Grafton, WI. The temps are supposed to go from 40 to 70 in four hours. Tornados are predicted. Yay.

[Félix]

Buying plane tickets for Disney World! We're going to Disney World!

[Brittomart]

Yay, Larry!

Right now I'm having that whole fatigue headache that I get when I'm on my period. But I'm gonna be on my way back to school in a little while.

[[deleted user]]

Packing for Miami!

[Félix]

It's a good idea to be packing when you're going to Miami these days.

[[deleted user]]

Very essential.

[Phoenix]

Right now I'm ordering underlayment and feeling like an idiot because I forgot to do it days ago.

Disney World, Larry? I am so jealous! I hope you have a great time though! :)

[Félix]

Thanks! Will be there with grandson Josh. Fun! My niece Erin is Cinderella there this year, too.

[Félix]

Dutch wrote: "You're related to Cinderella?"

Well, technically the wicked stepmom.

[Cynthia]

Larry wrote: "Buying plane tickets for Disney World! We're going to Disney World!"

Woot! Who's going Larry? You and Mrs. Larry? Are you going to stay in the hotel with the guitar-shaped pool? My kids loved that place.

[Félix]

Mrs. Larry and I are going, yes. No we're staying at brother-in-law's timeshare resort right up next to the park. Right next to Animal Kingdom, actually.

It's not until late June -- but we're excited already.

[[deleted user]]

I've never been to Disney World, but it sounds pretty fun. Enjoy, Larry.

[Jonathan]

Sounds like fun Larry--especially nice to go with kids.

[Jammies]

Larry, you and the family are going to have so much fun!

[Félix]

I went a couple times before -- the first being __ years ago when my kids were tykies (is that a word?). Later years I went with Mrs. Larry II. That trip included EPCOT and Universal park.

At Universal, we went on the ET ride. When you go in the door, they want you to say your names to an ET robot. I was paranoid about giving them our names, thinking they would call us up on stage by name or something (I used to be shy, believe it or not).

Anyway, I gave Kathy and Jim as our names.

At the end of the ride, ET says goodbye as you leave. He said to us, "Goodbye Kathy. Goodbye Jim."

We lol'd before "lol" ever was even thought of.

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Shy, Larry? You?

[Félix]

I know. Right?

[Jammies]

Maybe not shy anymore, but always cute, Monkey.

When my family went on a Disney cruise three years ago, I had the good fortune to have a migraine the day the ship sailed. As you walk from the gangplank into the ship, cruise personnel would ask your name and where you were from and then announce you. Thankfully, when I said my name and that I had a headache in a very small voice, I was spared having my ear boomed into.

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

YAY! Disney World! Have some fun for all of us, Larry.

[Félix]

I'll try. I really will.

[Jim]

Enjoy Larry!

[Sally, la reina]

Oh, Larry have fun! We'll miss you around here. There will be a larry shaped hole.

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Right now, I'm icing the knuckles on my left hand.

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "Oh, Larry have fun! We'll miss you around here. There will be a larry shaped hole."

Aw. Thanks. You'll have a couple of months to prepare, though.

[Phoenix]

^Oh good! None of us will have to go through Larry withdrawls for a while then. :)

@ Esme, why are you icing your knuckles?

[[deleted user]]

Because some asshole slapped my ass again.

[Félix]

I read that as putting cake icing on your knuckles, like so maybe you could lick it off.

[[deleted user]]

Cake icing would be a nice alternative...

[Jonathan]

A while back, someone--I think it was Gail--asked me what this picture is that I've been using as my avatar.

It's the viewing platform for a beautiful and very large 19th-century Dutch painting called the Panorama Mesdag, my favorite artwork in the world. Not many people here in the States have heard of it, but it's a magical thing. I wrote a brief article about it for this weekend's paper. Perhaps of interest:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001...

[Félix]

Way cool, Jonathan. Thanks for sharing.

[ms.petra]

Thank you, Jonathan. A very interesting article and the Panorama Mesdag definitely looks like a must see.

[Jonathan]

The Panorama is definitely worth a visit, Petra. And Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is just a ten-minute walk away at the Mauritshuis.

[Cynthia]

Great piece, Jonathan. It reminds me of L'Orangerie in Paris. (Did I spell that right?) We all fell under its spell.

[Jonathan]

You mean the big Monet murals of waterlilies downstairs at L'orangerie, Cynthia?

[Cynthia]

Jonathan wrote: "You mean the big Monet murals of waterlilies downstairs at L'orangerie, Cynthia?"

YES! Have you been there??

[Jonathan]

Yes, those are really beautiful. And you're right that they were inspired partly by panoramas, which Monet remembered from his youth--although, with the rise of movies, the panorama phenomenon had faded out by the time he did that big series of waterlilies after WWI.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Where are those Waterlilies now, Jonathan? I remember seeing them at L'Orangerie back in 1986, but I was wondering if they'd gotten moved to the Musee D'Orsay?

I liked seeing them at L'Orangerie, but I think they'd benefit from a little more space.

And, I would love to see that panorama Mesdag! Cool!!!

[Jonathan]

That particular set of waterlilies is still in place at the Orangerie, although there are many other works by Monet to see at the Musee d'Orsay, including one squarish canvas of waterlilies that he worked on at about the same time as the Orangerie murals:

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And you would love the Panorama Mesdag, Jackie. Check it out if you get the chance.

[Phoenix]

Right now, I'm off to retrieve the munchkins. Then I'm headed to Office Depot, my computer chair finally died a few days ago and it's time to replace it.

[Jonathan]

Myles wrote: "I like the word "Orangerie""

It's a beautiful building, originally a greenhouse for the Tuileries Palace (which no longer exists). Oranges, among other things, were cultivated there for the royal household, beginning (I think) in the 17th century.

[Félix]

What rhymes with Orangerie?

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

Larry wrote: "What rhymes with Orangerie?"

Lingerie? Unless I'm pronouncing Orangerie wrong.

[Jonathan]

Larry wrote: "What rhymes with Orangerie?"

Lots of things. For instance, singerie, the art of depicting anthropomorphized monkeys, which began in the 18th century with paintings and fabric patterns and continues today with sock puppets.