This made me cry. We should all be so strong.. and quite frankly, we should all want to fly with the angels.

So I got a call from a former coworker who needed me to do him a favor on a classified system and.. blah blah blah.. long (and top secret) story short, I agreed to meet him in between two of our buildings on campus to pick up a CD.

I had completely spaced on the fact that we were holding a book fair downstairs, but I figured it would be a great opportunity for me to browse books.  Cause I love books.

(I love Narnia.  Which I have read, by the way.  Yes, all of them.  I just read them when I was eight.)

I was naturally drawn to a rack of children’s books, and Horton Hatches the Egg called to me.  Seeing as how I played Mayzie la Bird in Seussical: the Musical! last summer, I thought it would be fun to read how my character came about.

So I read the first page:

Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg:
“I’m tired and I’m bored, And I’ve kinks in my leg From sitting, just sitting here day after day.
It’s WORK! How I hate it!
I’d MUCH rather play!
I’d take a vacation, fly off for a rest
If I could find SOMEONE to stay on my nest!
If I could find someone, I’d fly away–free…”

HOLY CRAP.  I’m totally Mayzie, y’all. 

 

Thank God Bryan can be Horton.

If you run in my blog circle, you’ve already heard about the issues with posting pictures of children on Flickr.  At first glance, I ignored it, thinking it was just alarmist crap. (I think everything is alarmist crap until it smacks me in the face.) But after seeing it three times in a six hour period, I decided to read up on it.

Mal linked to this Flickr user here, who had it happen to her daughter.  Another blogger I read also had it happen to her children. 

The more I read, the more sickened I became.  As someone who has lived through “internet impersonation” of sorts, I can’t imagine using innocent children’s images.  Even more disgusting is the fact that Orkut, the social networking site that is the main server in this issue, has not only given a lackluster response but refuses to penalize Orkut users for stealing images.

So today, as I have time, I will go through my bazillions of Flickr pics and mark all the ones of The Boy “friends and family only”.  Which makes me mightily sad, because those pics often pop up on my site and make everyone smile.  He’s frickin’ Opie, after all, and everyone deserves those freckles.

If you have a Flickr account, please feel free to make me a contact so we can still talk about how much he looks like his father.  You can find me here:

http://www.flickr.com/people/sarahlena/

It just makes me very, very sad.  No one deserves to have their online identity stolen, especially those who have no voice to fight it.