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Cookies - very intense and, I guess, marginally healthy, cribbed from some vegan cookbook at the library ( Read more... ) -
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Updated. This recipe might be less reliable than usual.The fake mole the dev team went nuts for ( Read more... ) -
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I am so exhausted. I'm not tired from getting to work before 6am every morning last week, and not from working all day Friday and then flying home late at night, and not from getting up early this morning to work before I led services ( Read more... ) -
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I feel numb. After five weeks of asking for metrics and not getting any on my part of this huge project, they came back on Thursday in a vague, secondhand way. What I have been doing has not - as they say - moved the needle. God, I wish I had known this three weeks ago when I first started agitating for the metrics, pointing out that the data they ( Read more... ) -
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B had a rough several days. He called me at the end of track practice, that desperate quaver in his voice. He'd had $60 stolen from his wallet. "I was going to take it to the bank to deposit it," he said ( Read more... ) -
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I walked in the house this afternoon and said, "I have to ( Read more... ) -
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"Wait, Ima, how do you crack an egg?" B asked. He was totally serious ( Read more... ) -
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The baby chicks came on Monday. It's been a long time since we've had them, and I had absolutely forgotten how delicate and vulnerable they are. Every part of them is fragile, and I could so easily crush one by just picking her up. We always lose a few, and when they die their bodies seem to collapse as if all of their volume was air ( Read more... ) -
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A lot of the conflict with B comes at the dinner table because that's the only place where all four of us are present. I don't want to give up on family dinner, even if he makes it miserable, because family dinner has always been the basic touchstone of our family ( Read more... ) -
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Later yesterday afternoon, E said, "I think you are singing tomorrow morning ( Read more... )