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Inexplicable.
No matter what I do, where I go, or what happened once upon a time, this will always be Home. And I'm homesick for no good reason. I miss my dead dog and my dead cat and my dead grandma. I miss soybeans and cattle and plains. I miss things that never existed at all.
And every time I go back, those things are never there.
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Babies by the bushel.
I'm sure everyone's seen the news about the new litter of octuplets born this week. CNN reports that this woman already had six--six!--kids, but just wanted "one more." Instead of adopting or just dealing with the fact that one woman does not need seven children, she went ahead with fertility treatments and wound up with an enormous infestation ( Read more... ) -
C'mere's okay!
Our leetle kitten (and I mean leetle--she's only 7.2 pounds) has weathered her operation amazingly well. She was knocked out and had three teeth extracted as well as a nice, old-fashioned butt shave. However, she's been bouncing off the walls since she got home, all playful- and snuggly-like even after two doses of medication (pain med and ( Read more... ) -
C'mere's big day.
Tomorrow morning (today, for most of you reading this), C'mere is going to the vet for oral surgery. I'm terrified. The vet's great, the staff cares, and we've done blood tests to make sure she won't react to the anesthesia, but I keep worrying that she's going to fall asleep and not wake up. Provided she does wake up, she's going to be scared ( Read more... ) -
La-di-dah.
Teaching is fun, but it's given me a nasty cold. Damned kids and their poor hygiene ( Read more... ) -
My Life as a Grown-Up.
My schedule today ( Read more... ) -
Short and, well, short.
I have come to realize that it's not kids that I've disliked so all these years so much as horrible parents. My school and after-school jobs have been a blast so far, mostly. Yet bumping into obnoxious, undisciplined children outside of school continues to be a source of severe irritation ( Read more... ) -
The future's so bright, we may need to wear shades.
This morning in a middle school cafeteria, I saw a girl who couldn't have been more than 13 wearing an entire brothel's worth of makeup and an indecently tight shirt emblazoned in glitter with the following:
"Forbidden fruit always tastes the sweetest."
Immediately, of course, I thought of Josh.
