Last night Elise & Matt dropped by for a visit on their way home from Corpus Christi.  We ate take out Mexican food and talked for roughly an hour and a half, then the too-short visit ended when they hopped in the car to keep heading home.  I lost track of how many times we exchanged yawns during the course of the evening.  We were all quite tired.

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Before last night, I hadn't seen Dead Poet's Society in more than five years.  Once upon a time, I watched DPS every year.  A college roommate would put it in the VCR, or a church friend, or it'd come on TV (back when I watched TV).  So, I've seen the movie quite a lot.  I used to think it was excellent, awesome, and any other number of fabulous ( Read more... )

I haven't felt much like writing recently. I've been utterly exhausted most days because of Isaac's recently-changed, super-annoying sleep habits.  He used to wake up and either fall quickly back asleep on his own or fall asleep once somebody poked their head into his room to let him know he was not all alone in the world.  For the last week or ( Read more... )

I should be going to bed right now, but instead I'm sitting at Steve's lappy typing away to kill the time. Ever since Pascha, I've had a hard time going to bed at a reasonable hour. It's meant that I've had very little sleep. Night after night of no more than four or five hours of sleep taxes the soul. This taxation is further compounded when I ( Read more... )