I'm opening the backlog of accumulated mail.  So many markers of procrastination ( Read more... )

I'm cleaning a bunch of papers off of my desk. There's a note on a picture of this set of this set of Passover Plague Ten Pins

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Butternut turned two today, and I turned 41.

Yay, us!


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Butternut turned 2 today.

Here are some post-birthday-party moments for your viewing pleasure:

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No one's dropping bombs on me.

My LSAT scores were scheduled to arrive on Monday.  So, I left my schedule clear for Monday so I could spend the whole day absorbing the information and having whatever emotional response I was going to have without worrying about needing to see anyone else and be "on ( Read more... )

Every since Butternut was a tiny baby, Pumpkin (mostly, with an assist from me, sometimes) has been singing Butternut to sleep with a song to the tune of "The Ants Go Marching" that he likes to call, "The Zombies Go Shambling."

Zombies Go Shambling One by One, hurrah, hurrah.
They have to shamble, they cannot run, hurrah, hurrah.
Zombies go shambling ( Read more... )

Has everyone heard enough re-statements of Lincoln's Gettysburg address recently to remember that near the end he says, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday,
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Just learned that a job I was really, really hoping to get has had the funding pulled out from under it.  Some kind of misunderstanding between the national organization and local affiliate.  Very disappointing -- interesting job, good issue, good people to work with, good pay and benefits, etc.  Except, you know, it doesn't really exist ( Read more... )