Monthly Archives: June 2009

blah. being married to management sucks.

Just found out that the spouse will be leaving early next week for over two weeks away, including our 16th anniversary, for Big Suddenly Important work thing. Note: I scheduled my LASIK when I did on the theory that he … Continue reading

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assorted confusion

Things I do not understand about this weekend: 1. Why every decision about how to carry boats on our car has to be an argument. Mostly I think he just has an allergy to doing anything the simple way. (We … Continue reading

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tetrapartite maundering

First, there’s an update at the expat-life blog so I don’t need to double-post about us being asked by a cute Taiwanese kid if we dye our hair lighter, or about my trying out a local foot-massage place. Second, we … Continue reading

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villanelle: Cecily Neville’s Farewell

Note: This will make most sense to fans of Josephine Tey’s “Daughter of Time”. That day they rode away, I rather thought they’d all return to me in God’s good time. Men work while women wait, as we’ve been taught. … Continue reading

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image stew

My brain is mushing images together right now, of towers falling and people falling. There was the Holocaust Museum shooting yesterday (was it yesterday?) – someone I know tied it to the Tower of Faces in the museum and its … Continue reading

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griping, but clean

I’m definitely having one of those days when no one seems to be listening – in fleshing out lists of processes other poeple own and supposedly care about; in responses to a giant brain dump I did yesterday in response … Continue reading

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revenge of the foodstuffs (no, not in that way)

Yesterday I got attacked by peanut butter. Twice. The first time was at lunch; I finally gave up on the cafeteria and now I keep PB, J, and bread here. Yesterday I had to start a new jar of peanut … Continue reading

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I am not Dr. Tiller

Because I haven’t put my own life, my fortune (other than some donations) or my sacred honor on the line as the people listed on the I Am Dr. Tiller site do every day. But I support those who are, … Continue reading

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ring

Two and a half years ago (it’s hard to realize we’ve been abroad so long!) in Rhodes, I decided to do something unusual and buy some jewelry for myself, something beyond a cheap pair of silver earrings. I was never … Continue reading

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marriage in PA

This is old news (from last week) but I only heard about it yesterday, and just looked up details. In Pennsylania, State Senator Daylin Leach (a Democrat from Montgomery County – the same county where Ted and I got married) … Continue reading

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