my life has changed significantly (for the better) over this past month. i no longer feel comfortable posting about my new grown-up life/responsibilities/growing belly into the public ETHER. so it's friends only from here on out. if you have stumbled on this and know me in real life or through another internet channel please leave me a comment ( Read more... )

here we are in athens, georgia. i am alternately getting a chuckle out of all the southerners bemoaning the 'cold' and feeling angst because our trip 10 hours south didn't exactly amount to a heat wave vacation. athens is pretty. matt's here on a three day job interview. i guess he's up against some MIT post docs, but everybody knows that ( Read more... )

we just found out on thursday that baby in the belly is a girl. my kids at school still don't know, but everybody else does. my pulse kind of quickens when i think of how to devise a way to inform a room full of second graders that i'm preg. eight year olds are more 'with it' than you might presume, but they still have this fantastic innocence ( Read more... )

i've been so hesitant to let the cat out of the bag on this one, but for the sake of my old internet-self, the one who wouldn't hesitate to share anything of the personal variety, here's what's up!


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i don't care if it's daggy, in fact i know it is: i really love my job ( Read more... )

here's a public post to make up for all the top secret filtered entries i've been writing ( Read more... )

abraham lincoln had it easy when he went to pen the gettysburg address. saying "four score and seven years ago" sounds so much cooler than whatever it is that i can say ( Read more... )

yesterday we went to this mall where they sell ipods in vending machines ( Read more... )

thank you to the people who commented on my youtube videos in that last post/i am a very slow adapter of 'modern gadget technology' so posting a youtube vid was a BIG DEAL. thank you for watching them. matt's accent is better than mine, but what can you do ( Read more... )

today we went to the arboretum and also to see the 'cherry blossoms ( Read more... )