Category Archives: geek

wash your hands afterward

September 3, 2009 – 2:00 pm

So. Don’t tell anybody but I seem to be re-working my manuscript. The first one. From 1998. There’s no good reason for this, except for the fact that there is clearly something wrong with me (and also I’m waiting to hear back from any of my several beta readers before I can do another draft [...]

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more, now, again

August 14, 2009 – 5:50 pm

SO, my husband is camping again. It’s lovely that my husband camps, and even lovelier that he does it without me (my idea of a vacation does NOT involve sleeping on dirt, with the bugs and the nature). But it’s his second week-long camping trip in as many months, and we’re WAY behind on work, [...]

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neigh

August 1, 2009 – 6:17 pm

The boys are camping this weekend.
Wait a second. Let me say that again: the boys are camping this weekend.
Given that there are three of us, with two of us gone that just leaves me. Alone. Completely, blissfully alone. For the entire weekend.
I barely know what to do with myself. I feel like the horse in [...]

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startup mama

July 29, 2009 – 8:15 pm

The internet. I love it, and yet it sucks the lifeblood right from my veins.
We’re dealing with the Terrible Threes, not only with the kid but also with the business. Both are growing at an alarming rate. Both demand huge amounts of time and attention. (Only one regularly elbows me in the sternum, however.)
I’m [...]

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listicle

June 16, 2009 – 10:47 am

Things:

We’ve actually started going to the gym! A leading motivator is the fact that they have kick-ass childcare which Ellison LOVES. He begs to be taken to the gym. It’s cute. (Related things that are kicking asses, namely mine: pilates. Ow ow ow.)
Ellison got into preschool! SO EXCITED OMG. He starts in the fall. [...]

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scratch & sniff

May 15, 2009 – 9:23 am

My kid’s breath smells different when he’s sick. Not gross-different, but definitely different. My mom used to say that my breath smelled like rubbing alcohol when I was sick, and it’s kind of like that with Ellison too. It’s cool that the mom nose notices things like that, isn’t it? It’s like an early warning [...]

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birthday

May 3, 2009 – 9:26 pm

It was my birthday last week. Yes. I am 35 now, a solid, respectable age. I would have posted about it sooner, but usually I loathe my birthday for reasons which have absolutely nothing to do with age and absolutely everything to do with that one time when I was 14 and no one came [...]

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