Sometimes you can feel when it's time to end a thing, even though you may not want to. I'm trying to look up, and many of the things connected with this journal can only hold me down. Even though these things are inevitably part of who I am and who I'm becoming, I cannot stay mired in them any more. Come and find me, friends, under a new patch of

Thanks to the gorgeous summer storm going on, our office is now lakefront property.

I really want to go play in it... the back yard would make the most wonderful slip-n-slide right now!

I got all moved!

I am a beast!

I am ... sore.Family and friends were absolute angels. Alas, though, they could not help until after work, so most of the day it was just Daddy and his girlfriend and me. Moving the couch was a superhuman feat. But one way or another, we got it all done ( Read more... )

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What does it mean when I find myself speculating about how defensible--or not--our new office arrangement (with higher cubicle walls) would be in, say, an attack of flesh-eating zombies?

As I believe I observed right around this time last year, at no other time ever in my life, except for moving-time, do I believe a person can possibly have too many books.

What's your strangest celebrity crush? The one where if you told people about it, they'd look at you like you'd eaten of the caterpillar's mushroom and gone right through the looking-glass.

And, to prove that you haven't gone through the looking-glass, why?

( Tell me yours, and I'll tell you mine... )

Oh how I am enjoying the book I'm Not the New Me, by Wendy McClure. She's so sharp and realistic and funny. Well, I mean, it's a memoir, so I should hope it's realistic, but I guess what I mean is, she's very down-to-earth. She calls people on it when they're full of crap or behaving badly, but she's honest about the ways that she's full of crap ( Read more... )

Ach, man, after a joke made during the company meeting about holding negotiations at Steak 'n' Shake or Whitecastle, I am massively craving a burger! Rrawr! Stupid piffling ham sammich in my lunch!

Also, I am delighted by the author of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, who brings the world such ideas as a bouncy castle made up of stuck ( Read more... )

Last night, Daddy and I passed a car with its entire back windshield taken up by a biblical quotation condemning the virgin daughter Babylon to dust and destruction. (But I am lazy, and my break is short, so I will not be citing it here and now ( Read more... )