Caveat Number One: I think kids and babies are cute.
Caveat Number Two: Just because I think babies and kids are cute does not mean I want to hear every detail about the kids of my colleagues and acquaintances.
Caveat Number Three: I have not experienced childbirth or parenting. This I know. Trust me that I know.
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I will admit: in order to make my slog through Stephen King’s Under the Dome, I headed over to Wikipedia for a quick synopsis. I was, after all, just confirming what I already knew to be true about the book’s ending. The book was taking a long time in getting there, so I just hurried [...]
I think I’m a mite cranky thanks to having blood drawn today, but to the searches for “modern English translation to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 87″ . . . you can’t be serious, can you? I mean, really? Sonnet 87 (the sonnet, not the blog) is as plain as day. Read it a few times over, digest [...]
IP and I have booked our honeymoon! We’ll be headed to Cancun in April. Greece is still on the table, though: it’ll either be our “Damn, we’re stuck in D.C. for longer, huh? Let’s take a later summer vacation, dammit!” trip or our “We’ve decided to have kids: this may be the last vacation in [...]
A brief vent:
I hate how my co-workers pronounce my first name. They say it—or attempt to say it—in Spanish, having once told me that I “deserve to have [my] name said properly.” Believe you me, the English pronunciation is hunky-dory! It makes me cringe each time a co-worker says my name. I told one new [...]
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I wrote this a year, maybe two years ago. I just reread it and found it slightly entertaining.
My mother was always somewhat halfhearted in her attempts to make our family a religious one. We were resistant in part because our father, who freely questioned the Church’s authority, allowed us to [...]
I didn’t set resolutions for 2010, but there are a few things I want to improve: I just didn’t feel the need to enumerate them at the New Year. I made a list which I titled “Things I Want To Do Better” in my notebook, and it included exercising smarter, writing, reading more, and searching [...]
As the sun does its work and powers through the hopelessly large of amount of snow still on the ground, IP and I have had a triumph: Saturday night we went shopping for the first time since January 29. Hallelujah!
And this week I have to start working full weeks again. The hell? Well, at [...]
If you look back through my book list posts, Fagles’ translation of The Aeneid makes its first appearance in the October 26, 2007 entry: I mention that it’s in my cart at Barnes & Noble. I then mention that I’m reading it on December 4 of that same year. It stays on the Currently Reading [...]
A very happy anniversary to my mom and dad! They were married at the very young ages of 19 and 25 in our little Mexican village. It’s been a long—and at times, tough—struggle for them, but I know I look to them as an example of a happy marriage, and as an example of stupendous [...]
