This isn’t the post I’d planned on today, but my current circumstances have lead me here so I’m going with the flow. You see, I have a mere 11 pages left in the book I’m reading (About A Boy), and until about 30 minutes ago I was sitting in a lawn chair on the deck, … More Am I being a little…waspish?
There have been several well-meaning people who, upon hearing about my plans to make a baby, have suggested that I might want to become a foster parent first (or instead). Apparently, there are those who believe that being a foster parent is a practice session, a sort of scrimmage match for would-be moms. I’ve actually … More A New Home for Harry
Harry
…Jen, who was the only one of my [now] three readers to correctly guess the Employee of the Month irony. In fact, she was the only person to guess correctly period. C’mon people–a cafeteria lady named Lettace? I couldn’t make that kind of thing up…truth is WAY stranger than fiction. And what does Jen win? … More And the winner is…
Since school isn’t officially over yet, and since I haven’t yet had to slap anyone for making insidious comments about my career and/or salary, I thought I’d post a few things that have made me laugh out loud this week. 1. Since my first insemination didn’t take (for those of you just tuning in, please … More humorous things other people wrote
Dear Loyal Readers (all 2 of you), When I started this blog I fully intended to post weekly, and for a while I didn’t fare too badly. But then May happened. Whew. Public school employees have no discernible lives during the month of May. In theory it should be a happy time: school is ending, … More Where did the time go?
Have you heard? Some guys have discovered several new species of slime-mold beetles (no, really, it gets better), and they have decided–are you ready?–to name some of them after Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. Swear to god in heaven. Unfortunatley, to quote the ARTICLE, “the decision to name three slime-mold beetles after Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld…didn’t … More Slime
Collarless and Unfriendly: Behold, Chapin
“Minnesota defines a wild, or feral, cat as one with no collar that does not show friendly behavior, said Kevin Kyle with that state’s Department of Natural Resources.” Okay. I was a little disturbed by the whole cat-hunting issue in Wisconsin (did you know it’s legal in South Dakota and Minnesota? I didn’t.), but the … More Kitty-Kitty Bang-Bang
This is what greeted me on the AOL news page today. It seems our President is…reformed (she says while trying not to choke on her latte). This is the second reference to the President’s “new and improved image” I’ve come across in the past 10 days or so. The accompanying caption is “Bush Seems Confident, … More it’s always something (my regards to gilda radner)
one small corner of the universe 