I spent yesterday and today at our new favorite pool, an outdoors number that has been in operation for a hundred years or so but is news to us. So I am pink, pink, pink, and my kid is toasty brown, despite our spf45-in' it up. my two most fervent wishes for the baby came true: that she would inherit her dad's skin tone, and that she not have ( Read more... )

tonight, after reading the george and martha where george has a french lesson and asks martha how to say "please give me a kiss" and martha says "voulez-vous m'embrasser" and then george gives her a kiss and martha says "tee hee, i knew you were going to do that", there was a great deal of back and forth smooching in this household. the kid said " ( Read more... )

my baby is home from her trip to chicago with her papa. she arrived in a cheerleader's uniform. her grandmother bought her a curling iron. WHAT??? she is five years old. and her hair is already curly. i'm at a loss for words here. the curler is going out with the garbage. my deprogramming regimen involves farmer's markets, salads from the ( Read more... )

i read that book.

now i'm making a HUGE amount of pasta with spicy red sauce.

and that is that for now.

omg HI and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sarra!!!

It is raining here, thrill!

i am back in the sunshine after three weeks of alaska, which was a sunny at first and then quite rainy. a perfect vacation which went on just long enough for me to get totally grumpy and miss home. i did a lot of hanging out in the rainforest, hanging out on the beach, hanging out with my sister. becoming a s'mores scientist. everything about ( Read more... )

There is some serious drama in the cave that is my tech services department. It stresses me out all day when I'm there. Upon leaving, I cleanse myself by making some tabouli, and drinking a tall boy of Oly with a little pickle juice in it. Also, I just got a haircut. Not a great one, but passable ( Read more... )

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I am currently fabricating a journal for the last three months of my internship - it would have been easier to actually write notes every day, but that's not the way I roll. You know.

My time could be spent much more productively right now: Ruby Oliver is calling to me, and I started listening to Parable of the Sower today - want more!

a dude picked a fight with me in line at the library today. i have been hopping mad ever since. though afterwards we had a lovely walk by a swampy lake, and saw bunnies and dragonflies and banana slugs ( Read more... )