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ETA: OMG A GIGANTIC TREE JUST CRASHED OUTSIDE OUR WINDOW!So, a few nights ago my dad and I went out to dinner, and there I saw a mother (mid thirties) and her son (8 or 9) having dinner as well. She was eating while reading some gossip column on her iPhone, and the kid was playing some game on some electronic device -- they did not exchange ONE ( Read more... )

So! I have not been here in quite some time, again. It's not that I don't love you, LJ. It's that I am EATEN ALIVE by work. And it's just going to... stay like this. Forever. (It will end, I suppose, with my dissertation defense, but that's like a wall so high I can't see over it. Also known as March? Yeah ( Read more... )

~ I am changing my birthday, I think. I don't know what it is, but it feels like September/October is just, like, ONE LONG BIRTHDAY PARTY. (Speaking of, happy birthday, calloocallay!) So, inevitably, I get to my actual birthday, and I'm asleep or hungover or something. Anyway, so I'm sick now, probably as a result of too little sleep and too much ( Read more... )