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Bark
Opening the car door for me this morning, Guy gave me the up-and-down oggle as I swung into my seat in the dainty way a pencil skirt forces one to do. I laughed at him, to which he replied "Well, what do you want? You're showing off the stems ( Read more... ) -
Have you let Obama into your heart?
During the presidential campaign I was on LJ hiatus, and I feel I should now go on the record as being an erstwhile Hillary supporter.
There, I said it.
When Sen. Obama showed up, I was like who the hell is this upstart trying to ruin our chance at a woman president? But I didn’t worry about him too much; after all, he was a virtual unknown, ( Read more... ) -
Knowing it would be this way doesn't make it easier.
"The California Supreme Court, by a 6-1 vote, today rejected a constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, an initiative measure adopted by the voters at the November 4, 2008 election that added a section to the California Constitution providing “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” The court’s opinion ( Read more... ) -
Cloven-hooved illness
An elementary school in the same school district as Guy's school has been closed due to the H1N1 virus. Thank God all of the cases in the county in which we work have produced only the mildest symptoms. In fact, the worst part of the whole business has been the response from the public:"it's the immigrants fault!" To put it in much milder, and with ( Read more... ) -
I'm not a crook!
Make that cook.
I come from a long line of really quite amazing cooks--my great-grandmother, mi abuelita, still makes some of the best spanish meals I've ever had, and she's well into her nineties, now. My grandmother was an adequate baker, and my mother runs the most messy, disorderly kitchen of any chef who ever turned out delicious herb- ( Read more... ) -
So much for supersleeper
I woke up at 2:30 this morning and by 3:30 gave up. I was so wide awake, I went to the gym and had a workout that made me feel like a champ ( Read more... ) -
Admin Day
I got flowers for "Administrative Professional" Day from my boss and the other staffer who's here in our office (the one I had margaritas with the other day). They're quite lovely, and I was so excited to get flowers I must have been beaming. Even our Cheif of Staff sent me a personal note to thank me--and I'm not even directly her support staff. I ( Read more... ) -
To Politic, or not to Politic
I want to post publicly about the political goings-on about the area in which I work, but am conflicted about whether or not to do so. I don't trust myself to do so in a way which does not reveal who my Member is, or how I feel about what that Member does/what is going on in our district. I don't think anyone who comes across this is likely to know ( Read more... ) -
He's BAAAaaaack!
Guy has returned. He ended up catching the next flight out of Charlotte (I called it Charleston in the previous post--oops!), and schmoozed his way onto the flight out of JFK to OAK. No extra fees involved. One thing I will give him: he can sweet talk just about any woman, and many men, into almost anything. He is the perfect compliment to my shy, ( Read more... ) -
Insomnia Indused Pondering
Usually I'm super-sleeper (my superhero title?). I mean, show me a bed, and I'll get it in it and sleep if it's any time after nine pm. On the sunny side, I'm also an early riser, although less so now that I have a big-girl job that doesn't require me to drag my bleary-eyed self to work around 6am. This makes for a pretty boring night life, as you ( Read more... )