Monthly Archives: October 2007

A Very Good Year.

Well here I am, at work, just sitting here being twenty-eight. It is my birthday, you see. It hasn’t been particularly eventful thus far, which is probably just as well, as I am tired of eventful. Last night I was pulled over by a policeman for the first time, for speeding, in a sort of […]

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Insert Pun Here.

You haven’t lived until you have projectile vomited macaroni & cheese and undigested peas out of your nose, smelled your own stomach contents with every subsequent inhale, and then dragged yourself out of bed at 7:00 the next morning to drive to the office—ON A SATURDAY—in a noble, if Quixote-esque attempt to meet an un-meetable […]

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They Call Him Flipper.

Thursday’s ultrasound was lovely—the Science Babies have arms and legs now (if you use the terms “arms” and “legs” somewhat loosely), though you couldn’t see them properly on Baby B, because it was curled up upside down far away in the top back of my uterus, looking cocktail shrimp-y. I was quite hungry at the […]

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Brought To You by the Letter Z.

I have decided on names for my hopeful future potential possible children: Zofranny and Zooey. Nice and literary, and this way both can have the honor of being named after my new companion, Zofran.
About ten days ago, I awoke at three a.m. and threw up. At the time I was not displeased—my first pregnancy vomit! […]

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Alive, Alive-O!

The ultrasound was perfect. Obviously both Science Babies are extremely talented and advanced, because they grew nine and eight days (respectively) in the six days since the last scan. Both are now measuring seven weeks and two days (I am 7w4d) and their heart rates were a robust 158 and 156. I am limp as […]

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