archives for July 2007
and thus teaching camp begins
Monday 30 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
A close look This is a good time to retire by yourself to your own private place. You seek and need comfort from the demands of the outside world, and having a pleasant relaxing time at home is probably the best way to accomplish this. Also this is a good time to go inside yourself [...]
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the lack of what was found there
Sunday 29 July 2007 | I like a cookie
I dreampt last night that my nonexistent girlfriend kept calling to ask me questions, and I told her sleepily, “You’re just using me to Google stuff!” Surveying the searches which bring people to our unreliable shores often yields many more questions than it answers. Why, for example, do so many people want to snort aripiprazole? [...]
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where would we be without dooce?
Sunday 29 July 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
We’d still have our asses, because they wouldn’t be laughed off yet. “Today I drove down to a hotel in the nether regions of Utah to camp out by myself and try to finish off some stuff I’ve got due very early next week. I had forgotten about this, but the billboards along the freeway [...]
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small (literally) disaster
Saturday 28 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
The feral kittens got into the Brujo’s cactus babies. Before I go further, I should explain that I have watched him raise them from seed for over a year, fussing over them, spritzing them with a fine mist bottle, carting them inside and out, adjusting their temperature via electric seed tray and their humidity via [...]
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yet what prodigious mowing we did make
Saturday 28 July 2007 | I like a cookie
Finally, I overdid it. Finally. After days of boxes and boards and sticks and sawing and raking and putting down contact paper and shoving things in closets. It took yesterday morning’s second lawn assault, one week after the first, but I did eventually manage to wear myself out completely. (Though I am pleased to note [...]
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*now* i’m home
Thursday 26 July 2007 | I like a cookie
office, before and after
Thursday 26 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
Sure, okay; so most of it I jammed in the closet in confoundment. Your point? But I felt I absolutely had to have a calm place in which to work. Was this self-care or self-sabotage? Given that I now have approximately 80 hours to finish the book before what the Professoressa calls “teaching camp” starts [...]
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pristine crisper (for oleoptene, who will get it)
Thursday 26 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
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tiny lizard (more bithuthday)
Thursday 26 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
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hipy papy bithuthday! to mandarin
Wednesday 25 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
Especially for her jour de naissance, I provide these highly irrelevant and inappropriate but very Mandarin birthday pictures of my parents’ new kitten Pepper, recently found in the middle of the two-lane blacktop in pouring rain, with a mockingbird dive-bombing her head. I don’t know how long after this ordeal these portraits were taken, but [...]
