July 2011

Unrelated.

July 18, 2011

—Simone loves tickling. She loves to be tickled, and she loves to be the tickler. Except…I’m sorry, but she is terrible at it. Just awful. It’s good, in a way, because I hate to be tickled yet am extremely ticklish and if someone tickles me despite my protests these two things combine to make me [...]

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I Think I Am Starting a Meme.

July 2, 2011

I have several little items I keep near my deskish area. My rabbit cartoon, a Valentine the nurses made us, which bears Simone’s not-quite-a-week-old footprints, a purple ribbon a friend gave me (in college?), which reads “HOMEWORK CHAMP,” a paper-clipped stack of miniature index cards, which once hung on my Crazy Person’s Bulletin Board—you know, [...]

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I Hear Some Like It.

July 1, 2011

The Heat Index reached 107 today, causing roads to whimper and buckle in defeat, shutting down half the lanes on parts of Interstate 94. I assume it has cooled somewhat outside, judging from all the racket made by the thunder and sirens just a bit ago, but no temperate breeze has yet penetrated our top [...]

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