This just in from the British press... (of course not _ours_ we support self-censorship)
1. By mid-July 2002, eight months before the war began, President Bush had decided to invade and occupy Iraq.
Monday, May 16, 2005
If you haven't already heard...
Local News
In other news, another Vivirito child has set the record for number of blown tires on the same Interstate. The tally is at three, and watchful family members wait for the final tire of this set to go.
The VT was unable to contact child for comments.
The VT was unable to contact child for comments.
Friday, May 13, 2005
In Erin's Own Words...
We had a party for my teacher cause its his last year here, so some kids set up a golf course, and my friend swung the golf club and it hit me on the side of my forehaed. I had to get stiches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am NOT lieing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only got 3 stitches tho, they come out monday. the next day I puked at school and went home. today I puked at school too. I 'm sick! I had a headache too. It was because I don't where my glasses anymore. This week was the worst week of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Erin P.S. Take The quiz!!!!! Of course, you probalbly know most of the answers! ! see ya!
Remarkable Week for Viv Child
The Vivirito Times
13 May 2005
focus section
This is one of those stories that tugs at your heartstrings. If anyone is deserving for an award for making it through this past week, it is Erin Michelle.
She has suffered a series of health mishaps that would leave a normal person in bed for days. But Mishy Moo is currently active and playful in the face of adversity. "It's amazing," said her mother, "She has had such a tough week-- medically-- made harder only by her intolerant siblings. She did not make it through a full day of school."
But Tuesday it really began to slide downhill. At a party for a teacher (shortly after her mother had left school),
"I expected to see blood running down her face, the way the nurse described it," Mother said. "The wound wasn't that bad, but it was pretty deep."
"I just couldn't believe it happened to me on this day," she said, "of all days." But she received the stitches and returned to school on Tuesday morning.
That afternoon though mother received another call from the nurse.
Mother had been called into school to substitute Thursday morning but was not needed; she then went to run errands. After two days of stomach sickness
Friday morning
It remains uncertain whether the cause of
But perhaps the biggest tribulation of Mishy's dilemma was the constant berating of her by her siblings, especially one brother. "He was slobbering away at his cereal while they were at the computer," Mother recalls, "when she asked me to ask him not to eat by her."
Michael responded with hostility, claiming that the suggestion for him to move was "ridiculous" and suggesting that the request was "selfish" and "bratty."
For
Nobody-- except maybe her courageous mother-- deserves a salute more than poor Mishy. This is ours, from all of us at the Vivirito Times.
sry...
if you're looking at this page and it looks HORRID. if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, the neon colors and ridiculous bullets are your own fault. if you are using mozilla firefox like i asked you to, i sincerely apologize for the harshness on the eyes...
Thursday, May 12, 2005
the bus
so i'm _forcing_ myself to read crime and punishment, which is why i've been spacing out so much lately... but i came up with this.
reason #452 why i love living in a big city... busses. okay, well, maybe it's the people *on* the busses. there were these two high-school kids on the bus today, one reminded me of a pre-pubescent evan nave with longer, curlier hair, and the other was a girl. they were talking about sci fi books, among other things. this girl is awesome; i've seen her on the bus before. she is always reading and has at least another book poking out of her bag. but where do these people go? where do sci fi readers go after high school? so i got to thinking about this unlikely cult... i know a few. i know a few, and what's scary is that they're really _smart_ people, and they look at the world with a tilt of their head... y'know what i mean? well, except my 40-ish flatmate who drinks tea and vodka in the eveningtime, is in a medieval folk band, and attends the *festivals*. y'all know which kind i mean. the lute-and-mute-cornett-with-a dash-of-the-recorder-and-maybe-the-bagpipes music with long, flowy hair all around, carmelized snacks, and the people got just a little too into the smells of the epoch renaissance faires. yeah, you've all been there.
well, i've digressed. but really, were have all the medievalers gone?
reason #452 why i love living in a big city... busses. okay, well, maybe it's the people *on* the busses. there were these two high-school kids on the bus today, one reminded me of a pre-pubescent evan nave with longer, curlier hair, and the other was a girl. they were talking about sci fi books, among other things. this girl is awesome; i've seen her on the bus before. she is always reading and has at least another book poking out of her bag. but where do these people go? where do sci fi readers go after high school? so i got to thinking about this unlikely cult... i know a few. i know a few, and what's scary is that they're really _smart_ people, and they look at the world with a tilt of their head... y'know what i mean? well, except my 40-ish flatmate who drinks tea and vodka in the eveningtime, is in a medieval folk band, and attends the *festivals*. y'all know which kind i mean. the lute-and-mute-cornett-with-a dash-of-the-recorder-and-maybe-the-bagpipes music with long, flowy hair all around, carmelized snacks, and the people got just a little too into the smells of the epoch renaissance faires. yeah, you've all been there.
well, i've digressed. but really, were have all the medievalers gone?
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Merchants of Cool
Douglas Ruskoff, a Frontline Film. Watch it here!
Teenagers are exposed to over 3,000 ads per day, and over 10 million ads in their lifetime.
"Teenagers are the hottest consumer demographic in America. At 33 million strong, they comprise the largest generation of teens America has ever seen--larger, even, than the much-ballyhooed Baby Boom generation. Last year, America's teens spent $100 billion, while influencing their parents' spending to the tune of another $50 billion."
"It's one enclosed feedback loop," Rushkoff says. "Kids' culture and media culture are now one and the same, and it becomes impossible to tell which came first--the anger or the marketing of the anger."
"Rather than empowering youngsters, the incessant focus on their wants and desires leaves them adrift in a sea of conflicting marketing messages."
Teenagers are exposed to over 3,000 ads per day, and over 10 million ads in their lifetime.
"Teenagers are the hottest consumer demographic in America. At 33 million strong, they comprise the largest generation of teens America has ever seen--larger, even, than the much-ballyhooed Baby Boom generation. Last year, America's teens spent $100 billion, while influencing their parents' spending to the tune of another $50 billion."
"It's one enclosed feedback loop," Rushkoff says. "Kids' culture and media culture are now one and the same, and it becomes impossible to tell which came first--the anger or the marketing of the anger."
"Rather than empowering youngsters, the incessant focus on their wants and desires leaves them adrift in a sea of conflicting marketing messages."
The War Business
by Chalmers Johnson.
This article is amazing. Please read!
This article is amazing. Please read!
- "Munitions making and war profiteering have supplanted the energy and telecoms deals pioneered by Enron and WorldCom in the late 1990s as the most efficient means for well-connected capitalists to engorge themselves at the public trough. To call these companies 'private,' though, is merely ideology. Munitions making in the United States today is not really private enterprise. It is state socialism."
- This ‘sepoy strategy’ once involved training ‘native’ troops to serve in regiments commanded by British officers or in imperial Indian regiments thought to be loyal to the British crown, which were normally composed of Sikh and Gurka mercenaries…
- The Americans tried their hand at sepoyism in
- Soviets + US abandoned Afgh; mujadedeen Islam fund turned against US
- It is possible to think of the suicidal attacks of 9/11 as a contemporary version of the Sepoy mutiny.
- Sepoys are useful, but real money is in governmental contracts.
- Vinnell Corporation received $48 million to train Iraqi army…
- International Peace Operations Association—a name George Orwell would have cherished, is made up of private military companies, the revenues of which will rise to $202 billion by 2010.
- DynCorp ‘trained’ Haitian police after
- Camp Bondsteel in the Balkans costs $180 million to operate… it seems too large and permanent an installation merely to meet the requirements of peacekeeping in southern Serbia, amission that President Clinton asserted would last no longer than six months and that Bush said in his election campaign he wanted to eliminate. As it happens… it is located astride the rout of a $1.3 billion pipeline project.
- “military-petroleum” complex
- Halliburton went from paying $302 million in taxes in 1998 to getting an $85 million tax refund in 1999 from relocation offshore.
- When G. Washington warned in 1796 that ‘overgrown military establishments’ are ‘inauspicious to liberty,’ he had something quite specific in mind. He feared that the
- The military-industrial complex is an appropriate place for high-ranking military officers to ‘retire’—circulation of elites
- “We have a military presence in 120 of 189 member countries of the UN, including large-scale deployments in 25 of them.”
- “This is the future. When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.”
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Life plans...
okay, so lots of questions lately as to what i'm doing this summer/ where i'll be. here's an as-close-as-i-can-get-it breakdown:
[and doods this is as much for you as me, my calendar is falling apart... wherever i left it... it's there, falling apart...]
050505: cnm
May 13-May 18: Finals
May 20: Commencement @ 9am
May 23- July 1: Teaching/TAing/Reading, (pick your jargon) "Social Theory and Cultural Analysis"
OH TBA
June 3: GRE
then KIKI comes! (woo-woo)
mid-July: down to SD in SoCal for some rays and a free pad (double woo)
end-July: IL with the fam
August: cornfest? really hope i get to hit that one. this is really the highlight of my summer, folks. The event includes the sale of more than 16 tons of sweet corn cooked by an old steam engine and provides some of the best blues bands in Central Illinois.
mid-August: Hungary.
the life i lead.
[tomorrownickbday endmaylaurenbday sometimejuneb'sbday julymattjakemikemomerinbday definitelyforgettingsomeotherbdays]
[and doods this is as much for you as me, my calendar is falling apart... wherever i left it... it's there, falling apart...]
050505: cnm
May 13-May 18: Finals
May 20: Commencement @ 9am
May 23- July 1: Teaching/TAing/Reading, (pick your jargon) "Social Theory and Cultural Analysis"
OH TBA
June 3: GRE
then KIKI comes! (woo-woo)
mid-July: down to SD in SoCal for some rays and a free pad (double woo)
end-July: IL with the fam
August: cornfest? really hope i get to hit that one. this is really the highlight of my summer, folks. The event includes the sale of more than 16 tons of sweet corn cooked by an old steam engine and provides some of the best blues bands in Central Illinois.
mid-August: Hungary.
the life i lead.
[tomorrownickbday endmaylaurenbday sometimejuneb'sbday julymattjakemikemomerinbday definitelyforgettingsomeotherbdays]
Monday, May 02, 2005
CONGRATS, MOM!
...for your admission to grad school!
As of this fall, mom will be attending the Graduate School of Developmental Psychology at ISU! (It's about time they recognized your qualifications...) BONUS: Tuition waiver. Look for her sporting her chic, mother-of-seven-back-in-school-and-still-hip look in August... and congratulate her before that. (Leave comments here!)
We're all so proud of you!
As of this fall, mom will be attending the Graduate School of Developmental Psychology at ISU! (It's about time they recognized your qualifications...) BONUS: Tuition waiver. Look for her sporting her chic, mother-of-seven-back-in-school-and-still-hip look in August... and congratulate her before that. (Leave comments here!)
We're all so proud of you!
Friday, April 29, 2005
The Vivirito Times Announces New Advertising Campaign
29 April 2005
The VT has recently announced an advertising campaign based on the USDA's rennovated food pyramid. Committed to excellence in food and nutrition, the newspaper will be displaying a series of ads regarding eating.
The ads are due to launch today.
This campaign is also a partial response to unhealthy habits developed by those in the Vivirito household. The most poignant case last week was Nick's fainting during choir practice.
"He didn't eat breakfast or dinner the night before," Erin tattled. "So now mom and dad make him eat all the time."
While parental participation may aid in combatting Nick's sporadic eating, the VT felt that something more had to be done. So it launched the ad campaign. It hopes that by using famous cartoon celebrities, comical posters, and other gentle reminders, Nicholas will never again forget to eat.
The VT wants also to remind the community that eating enough is only part of the problem, especially for this family. It is no uncommon occurrence that overeating in this family could result in what some dub 'bucket butt syndrome.' Although Matt seems to be exempt from the inflictions of this disease, none of the other children are.
Mother once noted this phenomenon during a standing-up period of a Christmas Mass, and it has been a family joke ever since.
You may access the ad campaign here.
You may access the USDA's new food pyramid here.
The VT has recently announced an advertising campaign based on the USDA's rennovated food pyramid. Committed to excellence in food and nutrition, the newspaper will be displaying a series of ads regarding eating.
The ads are due to launch today.
This campaign is also a partial response to unhealthy habits developed by those in the Vivirito household. The most poignant case last week was Nick's fainting during choir practice.
"He didn't eat breakfast or dinner the night before," Erin tattled. "So now mom and dad make him eat all the time."
While parental participation may aid in combatting Nick's sporadic eating, the VT felt that something more had to be done. So it launched the ad campaign. It hopes that by using famous cartoon celebrities, comical posters, and other gentle reminders, Nicholas will never again forget to eat.
The VT wants also to remind the community that eating enough is only part of the problem, especially for this family. It is no uncommon occurrence that overeating in this family could result in what some dub 'bucket butt syndrome.' Although Matt seems to be exempt from the inflictions of this disease, none of the other children are.
Mother once noted this phenomenon during a standing-up period of a Christmas Mass, and it has been a family joke ever since.
You may access the ad campaign here.
You may access the USDA's new food pyramid here.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Lecture
She begins the fickle fall into academia...
This Thursday, April 28th...
Come hear my lecture on the scintillating topic of online alternative news media!
5:00-6:30 p.m.
2060 Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB)
Can't make it? Check out my lecture notes (via Powerpoint prez) here.
Still pondering... sad that I've succumbed to to the black hole of altogether too-rigid technological structuring (hence the powerpoint)? To compensate, will take questions and comments throughout the talk. I needed a way to link to my sources and other webpages...
This Thursday, April 28th...
Come hear my lecture on the scintillating topic of online alternative news media!
5:00-6:30 p.m.
2060 Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB)
Can't make it? Check out my lecture notes (via Powerpoint prez) here.
Still pondering... sad that I've succumbed to to the black hole of altogether too-rigid technological structuring (hence the powerpoint)? To compensate, will take questions and comments throughout the talk. I needed a way to link to my sources and other webpages...
Monday, April 25, 2005
Oops... Dang Microsoft.
Just noticed that my blog may look a little funny if you're using Internet Explorer(the blue "e" icon) as your internet browser. I've been playing around with the template coding, which could very well account for this... I'll fix it soon, needn't you fear-- just not today. (Am... so... tired... fighting corporate pillaging of our world makes one a bit weary-eyed.)
In the meantime, download this: Mozilla Firefox.
Again with the footnotes...
Microsoft is a typical company seeking a monopoly in its field by thriving on evil business practices... systematically sabatoging 'open source'1 software and code, other market competitors, small businesses, elementary schools, and the individual consumer.
Will add more later... just... too... tired... Watch for updates. In the meantime, download Mozilla!
1. Read: collaborative, not-for-profit. Linux and Unix are two examples of 'open source' operating systems, software, email and browsers (Mozilla, Opera, Netscape). Other 'open' movements have long-existed and are thriving on the democratic forum of the web. Open source software is accompanied by 'open publishing' movements (Indymedia and Wikipedia) and other open movements which also culminate under George Soros' 'open society' movement that supports transparency in politics and enacted democratic practices world-wide. These movements value collaboration and cooperation over profit-oriented, highly competitive, and closed systems of government, economics, and information-sharing.
In the meantime, download this: Mozilla Firefox.
Again with the footnotes...
Microsoft is a typical company seeking a monopoly in its field by thriving on evil business practices... systematically sabatoging 'open source'1 software and code, other market competitors, small businesses, elementary schools, and the individual consumer.
Will add more later... just... too... tired... Watch for updates. In the meantime, download Mozilla!
1. Read: collaborative, not-for-profit. Linux and Unix are two examples of 'open source' operating systems, software, email and browsers (Mozilla, Opera, Netscape). Other 'open' movements have long-existed and are thriving on the democratic forum of the web. Open source software is accompanied by 'open publishing' movements (Indymedia and Wikipedia) and other open movements which also culminate under George Soros' 'open society' movement that supports transparency in politics and enacted democratic practices world-wide. These movements value collaboration and cooperation over profit-oriented, highly competitive, and closed systems of government, economics, and information-sharing.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
CAFTA
CAFTA... a "free trade" agreement between the US, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and (possibly) the Dominican Republic.
CAFTA...
- will increase inequality between the common worker and the corporation that will buy him out.
- will privatize essential public services such as water, health care, education, and energy.
- will support even more outsourcing while undercutting human rights for the workers who will work.
- will facilitate pollution by favoring mass, corporate farms.
- is anti-democratic in its implementation-- it does leave room for public forum and forces countries to abide by US corporately-designed laws.
- is anti-democratic in its form-- it was written in highly technical writing and will be voted on without being read.
- will destroy our environment.
- ties the hands of poor countries.
- is being actively opposed in north, central, and latin america.
- NY
- Texas
- Guatemala
- El Salvador (Excellent economic analysis!)
- Catholics
- Oxfam
- AIDS advocates
- Rep. Earl Pomeroy (ND)
Saturday, April 16, 2005
digmed
for those of us who haven't checked out the webbie nominees for this year... some great stuff.
day26
Pirates, Poets, & Passion
RTM86
Subservient Chicken
day26
Pirates, Poets, & Passion
RTM86
Subservient Chicken
Friday, April 15, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Books...
Currently reading:
White Noise, Don DeLillo: An intriguing story of a rather verbose family in otherwise normal circumstances. Its attention span matches mine, and it asks the questions we all forget to ask.
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy: Her seminal work, a wonderful story (autobiography?) of an Indian family. Spiritual, meditative, touching. One of those books that really takes you away...
What's the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank: Furthermore, what's the matter with Normal? Why are intellects ostracized in this country???
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz: His childhood in Israel. I'm slowing moving through...
Recent books:
Paroles, Jacques Prévert: The best thing about this poetry was my reading it in French. Yay!
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer: Dangerous, elusive, hilarious, imaginative.
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant: A recommendation from my mother... as it should be.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez: I know, one of those books you feel guilty for not having read. Well, you should. It's good, but not because people say it is. Disturbingly hilarious.
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse: I cried. When I write books, one shall be like this.
White Noise, Don DeLillo: An intriguing story of a rather verbose family in otherwise normal circumstances. Its attention span matches mine, and it asks the questions we all forget to ask.
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy: Her seminal work, a wonderful story (autobiography?) of an Indian family. Spiritual, meditative, touching. One of those books that really takes you away...
What's the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank: Furthermore, what's the matter with Normal? Why are intellects ostracized in this country???
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz: His childhood in Israel. I'm slowing moving through...
Recent books:
Paroles, Jacques Prévert: The best thing about this poetry was my reading it in French. Yay!
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer: Dangerous, elusive, hilarious, imaginative.
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant: A recommendation from my mother... as it should be.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez: I know, one of those books you feel guilty for not having read. Well, you should. It's good, but not because people say it is. Disturbingly hilarious.
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse: I cried. When I write books, one shall be like this.
Friday, April 01, 2005
Commencement/ Graduation
[The following is written for my family and friends... all of whom I love. This composition is spontaneous, but heartfelt. I find myself especially writing to those younger cousins/ siblings of mine who have yet to embark on the journey of adulthood. Luke, Joe, Lauren, Mike, and Matt, you are in my thoughts... live it up, kids. It's great fun.]
Well-- it's finally happened. I have waded through enough paperwork, slipped between the cracks of enough bureaucracies, slept through enough classes, and hammered out just enough essays to finally get out of school.*1 What do I get for all these endeavors? Another piece of paper.*2 Awesome.
But, really, I have done a little more than what I have indicated there. Okay, a lot more.*3 And I have learned a few things, too. One of the most valuable things I think I have learned is how to make lists; another is that I have no way of relating to the world outside of college. Taking these together, I have developed a dual-series course map to succinctly describe my own experiences.
Life Lessons, 101
Tings i lurned at the u'iversitie, 1b*4
I could offer these overviews in more detailed syllabi, but I find it more fun to randomly insert my life lessons into everyday conversation.*6 Ask the Vivirito kids how they like it.*7
Anyhow, my purpose of this letter was merely to request RSVPs for my commencement ceremony, held
Friday, May 20 -- 9:00 a.m. -- Greek Theatre -- Berkeley, CA.
So give me a holla if I get to see ya there!
--Elizabeth
*1 Well, not 'officially.' It will take many months before the paperwork goes through, possibly even a year. But I am not holding my breath.
*2 A degree! A Bachelor from the College of Letters and Sciences at UC Berkeley, to be precise. My major? Interdisciplinary Studies: International Communications and Politics.
*3 Paperwork, that is. Without going into the details of the discriminatory policies of the UC system towards out-of-state students, let us just note that it is a pain to transfer.
*4 How to footnote.
*5 This one is particular to Berkeley.
*6 I must take after my father in this manner.
*7 especially Matt. I recall an especially notable conversation.
Me: "Do you know what an IPod is?
Matt: "Oh my god."
Me: "No, really, Matt, do you know what it is?"
[Matt begins walking away.]
Me: "Matt?"
Matt [yelling]: "Why does everything have to be so political with you?! Just let it go! You have to have an opinion about everything!"
Me: "IT'S A STATUS SYMBOL! That's all it is! Like white 20-inch rims for your ears! With spinners!"
Matt [calmly]: "I love when you come home. No, really, I do."
[Matt was thenceforth not seen by me for the duration of my stay at home.]
[Mother is laughing in the kitchen.]
This is how the Vivirito Kids argue. There are really no lingering hard feelings. This conversation was actually just hilarious. I also feel it deserves the following follow-up:
Me: "Kiki, you like it when I come home, right?"
Kiki: "Ummmm...."
Well-- it's finally happened. I have waded through enough paperwork, slipped between the cracks of enough bureaucracies, slept through enough classes, and hammered out just enough essays to finally get out of school.*1 What do I get for all these endeavors? Another piece of paper.*2 Awesome.
But, really, I have done a little more than what I have indicated there. Okay, a lot more.*3 And I have learned a few things, too. One of the most valuable things I think I have learned is how to make lists; another is that I have no way of relating to the world outside of college. Taking these together, I have developed a dual-series course map to succinctly describe my own experiences.
Life Lessons, 101
- There Is a World Out There.
- Find it.
- Ask it questions.
- Listen.
- Be patient.
- Learning Is Fun. (You just gotta find the right department/ teacher/ book/ country/ mentor.)
Tings i lurned at the u'iversitie, 1b*4
- Protests are a great place to meet funny/ passionate people.
- Sometimes, you gotta look past the incredibly racist mascot and just root for the team.
- How to intermittently utilize a genre of verbose yet refined lexicon, how to facilitate the professionalization of the intelligentsia, and how one's grade becomes a benefactor of both.
- It is all a conspiracy.*5
- You learn the most from discussions with people you most disagree with.
I could offer these overviews in more detailed syllabi, but I find it more fun to randomly insert my life lessons into everyday conversation.*6 Ask the Vivirito kids how they like it.*7
Anyhow, my purpose of this letter was merely to request RSVPs for my commencement ceremony, held
Friday, May 20 -- 9:00 a.m. -- Greek Theatre -- Berkeley, CA.
So give me a holla if I get to see ya there!
--Elizabeth
*1 Well, not 'officially.' It will take many months before the paperwork goes through, possibly even a year. But I am not holding my breath.
*2 A degree! A Bachelor from the College of Letters and Sciences at UC Berkeley, to be precise. My major? Interdisciplinary Studies: International Communications and Politics.
*3 Paperwork, that is. Without going into the details of the discriminatory policies of the UC system towards out-of-state students, let us just note that it is a pain to transfer.
*4 How to footnote.
*5 This one is particular to Berkeley.
*6 I must take after my father in this manner.
*7 especially Matt. I recall an especially notable conversation.
Me: "Do you know what an IPod is?
Matt: "Oh my god."
Me: "No, really, Matt, do you know what it is?"
[Matt begins walking away.]
Me: "Matt?"
Matt [yelling]: "Why does everything have to be so political with you?! Just let it go! You have to have an opinion about everything!"
Me: "IT'S A STATUS SYMBOL! That's all it is! Like white 20-inch rims for your ears! With spinners!"
Matt [calmly]: "I love when you come home. No, really, I do."
[Matt was thenceforth not seen by me for the duration of my stay at home.]
[Mother is laughing in the kitchen.]
This is how the Vivirito Kids argue. There are really no lingering hard feelings. This conversation was actually just hilarious. I also feel it deserves the following follow-up:
Me: "Kiki, you like it when I come home, right?"
Kiki: "Ummmm...."
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