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Is that an oxymoron?

I'm composing longer posts in a word processor when I'm in my room without wireless, but right now you'll have to be satisfied with this picture from my window in Misano.


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Thanks to all of you who have expressed your condolences about Moxie. Forgive me if I don't reply to each of you; I really don't know what to say besides "Thank you, so much," and so I want each of you to read this as expressed ( Read more... )

In the end, I went more peacock than robin's egg, but I am very pleased by how they turned out.


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Thank you all who contributed suggestions for my packing agenda yesterday. It was super helpful, and there were many things I added to my list because of it ( Read more... )

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We snuck out to Bath for a quick trip this weekend. We had been making tentative plans for Cassie to spend her April break with Mom & Jim, and mid-April kind of snuck up on us, too. In fact, I was so unprepared that I completely forgot to make Troy a kennel reservation, and when I tried to do it on Friday (and our favorite kennel shuffled some ( Read more... )

Paper given. Well-received.

There might have only been about 10 of us there this morning, but we were mentioned in the Vancouver Sun as one of the interesting panel titles (last paragraph; the rest of the article is interesting too, natch. I for one will not be missing the Spivak-Damrosch showdown. It's going to be epic ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for Vancouver early, early, early Thursday morning. Well, my flight's at 7am, but the airport's an hour away and I need to be there an hour before takeoff, yes? So. Eaaaaaaaarly.

I have a nifty little carry-on sized suitcase with wheels.
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Coming home today was better than coming home yesterday would have been, I suppose. And actually it wasn't bad at all until we got to Albany. There was a crash on the onramp to 87, which was scary (was just being towed away when we passed), and slushy snow in the road the whole way home from there. We opted to go north to Bennington and over the ( Read more... )