Ok...I don't know if this is the case every year, but commencement is on a FRIDAY this year...at 10am. That's just weird.

Must stop looking at graduation info. Must work on paper.

I SWEAR I heard a traffic report a couple of weeks before the Great Buffalo Escapade of Ought 5 that mentioned a buffalo on the road up in Greenspring. Same vicinity as the later buffalo.

Maybe you were in an eddy in the time-space continuum? And you actually heard the traffic report for a couple weeks into the future? Or, our Evil Overlords (tm) were doing a test run of the buffalo thing.

I live on the main flight path of LifeFlight to the hospital, which is three blocks away. Anymore we just go "Isn't he awfully low?" or "They're in a hurry" or "Must be a bad one if they're taking off and heading out already." Sometimes they come over in the wee hours of the morning; we just wake up halfway, mutter "Hope he makes it" and go back to sleep.

Maybe you were in an eddy in the time-space continuum? And you actually heard the traffic report for a couple weeks into the future? Or, our Evil Overlords (tm) were doing a test run of the buffalo thing.

I REALLY think so! Nobody else heard it! (but not many of my friends commute like I do...bastards).

Raquel, to de-gloom myself, I'm thinking of your baby (with his cunning little chin!) cocking one eyebrow. THE CUTEST!

I never could do the raise one eyebrow thing. Actually I lost a contact lens in h.s. trying to do it. I was holding the one eyebrow down while trying to lift the other and my finger slipped. I poked myself in the eye causing my contact lens to pop out. It landed under my seat and, while pushing my chair back so I could try to find it, I crushed it.

I'm not the most graceful of girls. To say the least.

We're in the landing path for two airports. The smaller, closer one lands mostly private one or two engine props. The kids grew up learning to say, "get it up!" from all the sounds-too-low craft passing overhead. Also, it's weird to be watching teevee and have landing lights come fingering through the blinds on the half-glass door at night, like in Close Encounters.

Raquel! So glad to see you posting again! Missed you.

Cramp ease-ma to Nora.

I may grab a short nap before DH leaves for work. Not enough sleeeeep...

I didn't get enough sleep the night before last, so last night I slept for over 8 hours, straight through.

I actually like this morning.

Back when I first moved to SF there was one cafe that I wrote in almost daily. Five minutes after I walked out of it, a man stabbed his ex-wife to death in the line there. I came walking back and she was still on the floor with blood everywhere. That was close enough for me.

Whoa, Hec. But you so could've had Emma Zoole from that. Most interesting fact from last night's meeting. In actuality, one in every four Arizonans is a registered R. Way less than I expected.

Raquel - your website is great and I loved the pictures of Mal! What a cute baby!

I didn't get enough sleep the night before last

I feel like I haven't gotten enough sleep in *months*. I keep reminding myself that I'm getting over a cold, because otherwise I'd think this was a relapse of my depression, because it feels the same -- I get home from work and just cannot be arsed to do anything because I'm so exhausted. Not work out, not do laundry, not make dinner -- nothing.

Though I'm missing all the other symptoms of depression, so I'm sure it's just residual Ick from the cold. But a girl worries. It's been almost 2 years since my last relapse of my depression, which is the longest stretch of time (as an adult) I've gone without having it come raging back. And I'd like to keep it that way.

All the same, I sure could use some caffeine right now. Perhaps a diet coke will magically appear on my desk....