Jan

Head Cold

I have developed a head cold and my sd card reader has not arrived with my suitcase yet. My plans for the next couple of posts I want to do involve photographs, which requires a way to transfer said photos to my computer. Boo and bullfrogs!

I just discovered the BSC Scrapbook at uandme4bsc and it is hilarious.

Also, I was reading Abby’s Twin today and she said that Long Island was half an hour from New York City. This confused me greatly. Brooklyn and Queens are, technically, ON Long Island. Even if by “New York City” Ann/the ghostwriter meant “Manhattan” it does not take half an hour to get from Queens or Brooklyn to Manhattan, unless traffic is really terrible. Long Island is really, really, really big. It is wider than Connecticut. So saying that “Long Island” is half an hour from New York is crazy, because driving from say, Southampton to New York City would take a hell of a lot longer than one half of an hour. Unless you had a teleporter. I suppose that Abby meant that where she lived on Long Island was half an hour from New York City, but still. Being precise matters when it comes to geography.

Like how Abby’s mom took classes at the Culinary Institute of America, which is in Hyde Park. I have been there, and it took a really long time to drive there from the immediate NYC burbs. Like 2 hours. Just because they are both in New York State does not mean that somewhere on Long Island is close to Hyde Park.

4 Responsed To This Post

chicken_queen said, January 13th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Oh my lord, I never saw that BSC Scrapbook before, thanks for linking it!! Hahahahaha!

Laura said, January 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Yeah I always wonder about how much the ghostwriters actually research a topic. Like in the Super Special where they go to England and Stacey loses her suitcase…so she goes to Harrods for a new outfit. I have been there and it is so rediculously expensive - surely she could have gone to a chainstore? It’s like the writers just thought of every cliche/icon of England and didn’t go any further than that.

Jenna said, January 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Thanks for linking us, we adore our website and always like to see others enjoying it as well.

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Stoneybrookite is a Baby-sitters Club blog written by Greer. It has been online in one form or another since 2002. Greer has been reading the BSC since 1993. She was also stamped as "Stacey" at BSC Stamped. Her geographic location is hard to pin down, as she has lived in seven cities in two countries in past five years, but a part of her is always in Stoneybrook. Hence "Stoneybrookite," the official term for residents of Stoneybrook.