if there are spiders and/or flies in the new house (on which we are closing tomorrow morning) so help me baby jesus. my dad says it's a good thing the closing is tomorrow, as the number 8 is a lucky, fortuitous number in Chinese culture (that's why the Olympics start tomorrow ( Read more... )

thursday morning my mother woke me up at 8 because we had a deer in our yard. we wondered how she got there because we live in the suburbs and if she came from by the river (which is most likely) we wondered how she crossed Riverside drive which is extremely dangerous and busy. and she was just walking around our yard for about half an hour, eating ( Read more... )