You know what’s super great about this particular Thursday?

It’s also a Friday, in essence if not in name. And that makes it a great day for a TiLT list. This week I am loving …

• Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, who I learned about through the current issue of Bust. Kamala Lopez made a film about Rankin, which I have not yet had the chance to see (since I only read about it yesterday). The film is available at ASingleWomanMovie.com.
• BUST Magazine. I picked up another a copy yesterday and read a couple articles while waiting in line to pay for it. Then I read the rest of it while sprawled out on our temporary bed after work. BUST is probably becoming my favorite magazine. I’ve been frustrated with feminism before, and I feel like the girls at Bust really get my type of feminism — like, it’s cool to have a lady on the front cover wearing a fluffy dress, but it’s also pretty fab that she makes her living telling crass jokes and being generally foul mouthed.
• This conversation I overheard in the bookstore yesterday:

Person 1: His name is Yuri.

Person 2: Yuri?

Person 1: Yeah, like … like, like Russian, like, ballet dancers and stuff.

• Alice and Kev, a blog about two homeless Sims. I started reading this blog a week or so ago, and it’s really clever. Obviously, there are some major differences between the way Sims act and the way real people act, but Alice and Kev is a rather eye-opening experiment.
• Sarah Von’s list of what to do on Independence Day.
• The new “pet” at Sea of Shoes, Nao.
• The fact that Southwest Airlines doesn’t gradually inch up their prices by the day or the hour, and that until the tickets sell out, I can still put employees on the same flight at the same price today that I got on Monday. This is so handy when, say, an employee backs out of a business trip at the last minute and you spend all week looking for his replacement. Southwest also gives full refunds if you have to cancel a flight, and they offer more direct flights and lower fares than most other airlines, which is why I’ve abandoned Expedia and started using Southwest almost exclusively when booking travel for people in my office.

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