We have a date for Anya's surgery now--April 13th. For the palate surgeon, it's a fairly routine operation to repair her palate ("Only one and a half hours!") but when it's your baby, it's kinda squicky and worse when it's surgery in the mouth because we all hate dental work AMIRITE. And this is a baby with a real oral fixation right now; it's not ( Read more... )

Full term! I'm doing better with this pregnancy than Sarah Palin at state governorship, hahaha!

Last week's gynae appointment had the doc estimating the baby's weight at 3.2kg (just over 6 lbs.) which he says is the average weight for Asian newborns. Guess we're in the above-average-size zone already, though this girl is half-angmo. (Though, from ( Read more... )

Or, this modern fantasy novel is Empty of Inherent Existence. A quick book review.


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This is why, in one of my old jobs, dominatrixes (What's the correct plural? Dominas? Dominatrices?) were my absolute favourite people to talk to:

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