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Studs Terkel

Posted in infotainment on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m trying to figure out how hyperbolic it would be to say that Studs Terkel is the most important American oral historian of the twentieth century.  The answer I’m leaning towards is “not at all.”  His death today at ninety-six is less a tragedy than a bookend to a full life; he leaves behind such [...]

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Spreading the wealth around

Posted in fluff on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post is SO not about politics.  It is, instead, about some friends of ours who happen to be new parents.  Anna Louise is a week old, and she’s a doll of a baby if I’ve ever seen one.  So I’m spreading the wealth around today by insisting that you go look at her and [...]

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Down the rabbit hole, back up and around, and down again.

Posted in complaints, infotainment on October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This election has really started to test my grasp on reality.  There’s nothing like catching up on the morning’s news, reading the name of an author you read during your PhD exams, recalling that his was one of the dozen books out of that stack of two hundred fifty that you really, really dug, and [...]

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Grimsajunior, Week -29

Posted in pregomatic on October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today marks 11 weeks.  And the bloat continues.
As of my last doctor visit, I had managed to lose about a pound and a half while adding on 2″ to my waistline.  That 2″ has now gone up to 3″, and if my scale is right, I still haven’t gained any weight.  But this week, there [...]

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Grimsajunior, Week -31

Posted in pregomatic on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

16 October 2008
Dude, what is up?  You’re no bigger than a kidney bean or grape, give or take, and yet somehow you’ve managed to bloat my belly out enough so that I can’t comfortably wear two of the four pairs of jeans I own.  Of course, I don’t look any bigger to anyone else but [...]

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Responsible pregnancy diet

Posted in eats, pregomatic on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A cup of vanilla yogurt poured over an equal portion of bread pudding still counts as one of my four-daily servings of dairy.  And! Since the bread pudding was made with whole wheat cinnamon-raisin bread, it counts as a whole grain, too!

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Happy Birthday, Mom!

Posted in fam, photos on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Almost as good as having actual flowers sent to you, right?

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Thanks, but no thanks

Posted in complaints, fluff on October 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »

There’s a vibrating crib for sale on Craigslist.  In an attempt to make it sound more appealing, the seller has noted that “It just vibrated [my son] right to sleep.”  To sleep?  Don’t you mean it vibrated him to coma?  Call me paranoid, but I wouldn’t sleep on a vibrating bed for fear it would [...]

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Uh, yeah.

Posted in complaints, photos on October 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It snowed overnight.  Just a little, but it snowed.  The leaves aren’t even half off the trees and it snowed.  I haven’t even planted those bulbs I bought a couple weekends ago and it snowed.

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Bra talk

Posted in complaints, pregomatic on October 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I think I’ve always hated brassieres.  When I was a teenager and still waiting (and waiting and waiting) on my boobs to make an appearance, they were always too big, and the padded ones I favored never looked remotely natural but I wore them anyway because I was a teenaged girl incredibly insecure about such [...]

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