The excavations would refer to the process of cleaning out our 'office', i.e. the room in which we put stuff where it accumulates in strata. For most of the summer, M. has been campaigning for a cleaning offensive to be led by General Llama, in which some of the chaos can be contained. However, Gen. Llama has avoided the issue until it became ( Read more... )

Things are looking up. Yesterday and today, I took the mornings to go the middle school and high school and complete my observations that were assigned from the Teaching fellows. I had a really good time and need to send thank you notes via email (but I can't remember if I have the right email addresses in my work account or home account.) As my ( Read more... )

It's cold and dark and the shortest day of the year. I think that means...party ( Read more... )

Mommy-llama and I went to go see "The Kite Runner," which was excellent. I haven't read my mom's copy of "One Thousand Splendid Suns," which is by the same author (Khaled Hosseini), and currently occupying the same to-do pile as my KS bar materials ( Read more... )

I had an opportunity this week to wallow in some nostalgia at a meeting of the KC Columbia Club, wherein I was most probably the youngest member (the median age was probably 75.) The Columbia Club is much more liberal in its membership practices than the Barnard Club, open to all undergrad/grad programs and spouses. Barnard College, I love you, ( Read more... )

I got rid of a whole lot of paper today. M. and I use our apartment's second bedroom as an office, roughly divided between me, M. and our auxiliary wedding gift storage. (I do plan on making gazpacho, but first I have to dig out one of 3 cusinarts that I've never opened.) As for my space, it received an extreme makeover in that I disposed of much ( Read more... )

Saturday night, M. and I went to the int'l law society wine tasting event. They held it at the remodelled Union Pacific Depot, which is now a museum/party space you can rent. There was fancy cheese (!) and fancy desserts (!) and 6 different kinds of wine. We read the descriptions (notes of chocolate and cigar box?) and then decided to revert to ( Read more... )

My estate planning group met today and were hashing over our numbers for 2 hours. I'm still not sure we've got it quite right, but it's close enough for estate planning ( Read more... )

I can't say what drove me to clean the bathroom this morning, only that I'd been meaning to do it for some time now and I had the requisite amount of energy and cleaning power necessary to accomplish the task. The porcelain gleams, the fixtures sparkle and most of the mildew has been vanquished. Above it all floats the slightly astringent scent of ( Read more... )

Some of you may be familiar with the great divides among humanity. Politics. Religion. Chocolate v. Vanilla. Here's one you may not have heard of: Varying definitions of "Laundry."

M's definition of laundry: "Wash and dry clothing".
Llama's definition of laundry: "wash-and-dry-and-fold-or-hang-up-and-put-away clothing ( Read more... )