Aug
31
Ms. Tennessee Gets Bitten By Rattlesnake, Saved By Ms. Iowa(this tidbit courtesy of my sister, who is very busy over at Homeland Security)
Aug
31
She’s Learning
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(on phone with my mom, Sal)Us: blah blah blah blah blahMe: O.K., Ma, I better let you go. Love you!Sal: O.K...............Later!Me: Hmm. Was that you saying bye, or were you employing 'later' in a formal adverb sort of way?Sal: I was saying bye!Good job, Sal, good job. Your kids are proud of you.
Aug
29
Very Detailed Breaking News
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Barring any unforeseen disasters, we are moving!To Incline Village, in Tahoe.It's going to be great.Relief from all this traffic and overcrowdedness and nonsense... I have lived in the Bay Area for nearly 5 years, it's been wonderful and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but now it's time to try something else. I can't wait!
Aug
28
Total Eclipse of the Heart
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This was my brother's favourite song when he was 4 and I was 5. No lie. Mine was Air Supply's "Making Love out of Nothing At All"... sweet jesus. I'm blaming it all on my mom. Anyway last night I got up to see the lunar eclipse! It was gorgeous! I actually had to get up twice, for some reason I was like "OK so the full eclipse starts at 2:52 a.m. but I should probably get up a few minutes before that so I'll set my alarm for 1:40", which I did. Went trotting up to the roof at 1:45 in time to catch the very teensy beginning of the hour-long movement into the full eclipse....
Aug
27
The Inaugural Game
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Major excitement of the weekend: we bought our very own Scrabble game! Scrabble is my favourite (it has been the topic of multiple posts now) and actually the next fish, which I haven't even picked out and bought yet, is already named Scrabble.Here we are during our inaugural game:No prizes for guessing who arranged their letters thusly... (ahem. it was i) BUT in honor of the inaugural game, I am posting my inaugural Blog Poll: Free Polls - Take Our Poll P.S. I won the game in ...
Aug
24
I went to this all girls' high school near Baltimore, Maryland. It was a boarding school.It was fine, I didn't hate it or anything, but whenever I am with people who wax rhapsodic about how fun high school was and how they did all this cool stuff, I definitely cannot relate. High school involved studying, participating in class since there were no boys around to call you the President of the Goody Goody Association of America (g-squared a-squared for short) if you were smart, hanging out in Paula's room building one lame physics project after another, cleaning my room, and more studying. That's about it. Also this is where I honed my gossiping skills because once ...
Aug
22
Fish are Cute and They Deserve To Live With Me!
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I said this to my sister last week."What on earth did they do to deserve that?!" she said. Little brat. Moving on... they are alive and well! Thus, they get names.I was going to name them Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshee.But little Siouxsie has an attitude problem and likes to ram into the Banshee whenever food is involved.She's a beast. A black buggle-eyed beast.On top of that I am not sure if she's a she or a he so I figured a non-gender-specific name might be better.SOOOOO, it's Beastie and the Banshee!...
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