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August 8, 2008 out of the loop 
So I'm afraid I don't know anything about this hobbit business. I've seen links to a few of the main players in the hobbit business, but I haven't bothered to read anything about it. I like hobbits. I also like elves. Goblins and orcs, not so much. Never made my mind up about Gollum. The bloggers in question are, I'm sure, fabulous and wonderful and upstanding people whose blogs I simply don't read, not because they're not good blogs, I'm sure they are terrific blogs, I just don't happen to read them. As a result I drift here and there over the post-BlogHer-osphere and have no idea what anyone is talking about, can't contribute to the conversation in any way, and feel vaguely relieved that I didn't attend BlogHer, because if it can turn friendly, hairy-footed little hobbits into a bone of contention that lasts for a month or more, well. Hobbits saved the world! Yay for hobbits! And if anyone knows of a real hobbit blogging anywhere, please do send me the link. There are so many questions I would like to ask. Like, why do the doors have to be round? And, don't you get tired of being so infernally cute all the time? Also, the Twilight thingamabob has hit the bookstores, and apparently it's the new Harry Potter or somesuch. I never read Harry Potter, and I haven't read Twilight, and I very much doubt I ever will. All over the blogosphere I see conversations raging about Twilight, just as conversations raged about Harry Potter a year or so ago, or whenever it was they came out; as I said I never read them so I didn't keep track. And I suppose I could start a conversation here about the books I'm reading (about the effects of divorce on kids; what the world would look like without humans; the process of creativity; and a spaceship run by a vampire, a cyborg, a woman who intentionally gave herself multiple personality disorder in order to increase the efficiency of her brain, a soldier and a guy whose brain was rewired in some vaguely not-human manner to address his childhood epilepsy). In this conversation, a pin could be heard to drop, and yes, I realize that you can't hear pins dropping over the internet. And! I hear there's some recession thingie in the States? I can tell because so many of you are blogging about finding jobs and going back to work because your finances are tight--just in time for me to quit my job and head back to school. (Fourteen working days to go, not counting today.) It's not that I don't enjoy these conversations. If I didn't, I wouldn't read them, right? It's just that the best contribution I can manage is to sit here sagely nodding my head, and you can't see that because you're not here, you're on the internet. And then I start babbling away about the things I care about right now and I picture all of the people reading--which is actually quite a lot of you, not that you could ever tell from the comments--sitting at your computers, sagely nodding your head because you really don't have anything to say. All of which is to say that I expect this will be something like that. Because most of you are not diabetic. So yesterday I went to the endo, and guess what? Turns out I'll be getting my insulin pump supplies for free starting sometime in the fall, whenever the forms and procedures are set up. Huzzah! (This is where you can say "huzzah" too, if you'd like.) Posted by Andrea at August 8, 2008 9:05 AM under Pins and Needles EMAIL this entry (comments fields are below this section) Comments Huzzah! Also, hobbits? Whaaa? I'm even further out of the loop than you, it would appear. Posted by: Casey at August 8, 2008 10:14 AM
Fantastic! I too am used to the 'great medical news' followed by 'actually, doesn't apply to you or anyone you know/care about.' You got great news! I'm thrilled for you. I hope it takes a little load off your mind as you go back to school to start your new adventure. Posted by: Isabel at August 8, 2008 10:19 AM
Huzzah! That is marvelous. I am perpetually out of the loop. But I did see the Paris for President video fairly quickly, thanks to My Love's campaign news addiction. Posted by: Madeleine at August 8, 2008 10:37 AM
Huzzah! It's great to hear you qualify! And just for the record, I really enjoyed the book about what the world would look like without humans. And I'd love the titles of the books on the effects of divorce on kids. :) Posted by: Lindsay at August 8, 2008 10:48 AM
Huzzah!! (And that feels weird typing because I'd be more of the Hurrah or Woo hoo kind of victory cry but I'll say it just for you. ;) Posted by: cinnamon gurl at August 8, 2008 11:00 AM
Huzzah! I consider myself reasonably in the loop and have no idea what hobbits you're talking about either. Posted by: rian at August 8, 2008 11:07 AM
First, HUZZAH indeed! Second, I would be flat-out GIDDY if you would start a conversation about the book about a spaceship run by a vampire and his neuro-whacked crew members. I finished Blindsight last week and felt a profound sense of loss at having to put the book down. All I've wanted to do ever since is talk about its characters, those minds, that world, our world. Oh... it's SO, SO gooooooood. I've pleaded with as many people as I can to start reading it. (I do believe I have a crush on Watts, not that I've met him or know anything about him. Even his acknowledgments and reference section left me starstruck...). Ahem. I've got to get a grip. And third: hobbits? Huh? I'm with Casey, out of the loop yet again. Nor do I have any idea what Twilight is. I'm proud to say that I have heard of Harry Potter, though I never bothered reading the books. Posted by: Bella at August 8, 2008 11:12 AM
Huzzah! I don't have diabetes, but my son does, and we know well how spendy all that pump stuff is. Posted by: elandsimom at August 8, 2008 11:32 AM
Huzzah, indeed, on the medical news! I know about the hobbit thing, only slightly, through third-hand explanations. I too have been totally thrown by all this Twilight hoorah, especially the vehemence with which people, many people, are discussing a book I didn't know existed. The World Without Us is in my to-read list. I have also been working my way through LeGuin's Lavinia, which I justify reading because the Aeneid is on my school list (again). The book you described sounds like the perfect addition to my to-read list! Posted by: Mouse at August 8, 2008 11:51 AM
Huzzah. I know nothing of bloggy hobbits either. I am in the thick of the Twilight business but I do recall a year or so ago a whole whack of Battlestar Gallactica conversations going on that I just looked at glassy-eyed. Now I am watching the series on DVD and would love to dive in but, alas, I have come too late to the party. Posted by: Mad at August 8, 2008 12:24 PM
HUZZAH!!! I've been sending good thoughts your way for this---what a relief! Posted by: Mary at August 8, 2008 12:38 PM
Huzzah!! Posted by: LauraJ at August 8, 2008 12:40 PM
How wonderful!! You must be feeling some relief with that news... Oops... Huzzah!!! Posted by: Tanya at August 8, 2008 12:50 PM
Huzzah! A million Huzzahs! Woo Hoo! I am delighted... you must be delighted. Quelle Liberte! Posted by: sibling at August 8, 2008 1:55 PM
You huzzahed! Thanks. :) Mad, good point. Though you know I have no idea what's happening now b/c I don't have cable and have just been praying that no one writes about it until after Season 4 comes out on dvd. AT which point, we can all join in again. Bella, it's a deal. Once I'm done. (Mouse, if you're referring to the same book, it's Blindsight.) Lindsay, sure. I'll do a mini-review post after I'm done them. They're fairly repetitive, which I suppose is a good thing since it means The Experts agree, and as we all know this is not a given with parenting books. Posted by: Andrea
Yippeeeeeee!!!
Huzzah!!!
And I'm behind on the Twilight stuff, although the two I've read, I've enjoyed immensely. I'd love to know what that last book you referenced is called. It sounds fascinating. Posted by: Major Bedhead at August 8, 2008 2:56 PM
Hurray! What a wonderful thing. Yes, I do nod my head a lot when I read your blog. I also think of lots of long things I want to say, but I don't really want to say them in comments and I don't really know you so I don't want to bother you, blah, blah, blah. But I am here and I read whenever you post. ps I know nothing about the Hobbit business. Posted by: craftydabbler at August 8, 2008 4:37 PM
Awesome! Just in time for school. Yay! Posted by: Kia at August 8, 2008 6:30 PM
Oh. Forgive me. HUZZAH! Posted by: Kia at August 8, 2008 6:32 PM
Yaaaay!!! I'm so happy about the free supplies! :) And I wanted to get the title for the book about the world with no humans, Marcus was talking about that....didn't we talk about it? He's interested in the concept.... Posted by: rachel at August 8, 2008 7:34 PM
My older daughter is DEEP in Twilight obsession. I read them, and it is, in my opinion, a good, but poorly written tale. As to the hobbit politics, yeah, who knows, its weird. Makes me think of high school. Total huzzah on free medical supplies! Posted by: crazymumma at August 9, 2008 11:35 AM
Huzzah!! Posted by: Miche at August 9, 2008 7:07 PM
I'm her boyfriend, and I STILL don't know what the hobbits reference is all about! (Proof positive we've had better things to talk about, I suppose...) Did I mention HUZZAH? Posted by: theboyfriend, a.k.a. Greg at August 9, 2008 11:59 PM
Whoops! Okay, I just did about 30 minutes of surfing and reading on the hobbits thing, because my curiousity got the better of me (and apparently I am allergic to sleep). And... wow. I should probably retract the "better things to talk about" comment because, frankly, the whole thing is simply out of my depth as a non-mommyblogger. Still... wow. Ummm... hey, what was that about insulin pump supplies? Huzzah! Posted by: theboyfriend, a.k.a. Greg at August 10, 2008 12:50 AM
I'm completely lost on the hobbit thing. I'm not nodding sagely on that: my mouth is slightly open, my nose is wrinkled, and my eyebrows are all wonky as I say, "Huh?" To the insulin pump supplies, I say HUZZAH! Posted by: Pork with Bones at August 10, 2008 4:56 AM
Why do you think I didn't include links? And I get how these things can feel very big to the people in them--it's just that the people out of them typically end up feeling, well, out of the loop. Thanks for the huzzahs. :) Rachel, it's The World Without Us. haven't finished it yet. Julia, sure thing. Looks like there's more interest in that book than I thought. Posted by: Andrea
I am fairly confident that I haven't seen this many huzzahs in one place since my 18th Century Literature course. But I second (or twenty seventh) the sentiment so . . . huzzah! That's fabulous news. I am also completely lost on the hobbit thing, but I will learn from Greg's mistake and not read up on it. Hopefully I am sufficiently late to the party to have missed it. Posted by: Morrigan at August 12, 2008 11:20 AM
Ok, I read Blindsight, ready for the discussion. Posted by: Elizabeth at August 26, 2008 3:13 PM
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