Aw, thanks! My first ever set of anniversary congratulations, whee!

Also, amych and Rio, I hereby decree that your own wedding days will be big royal blasts and that you will both look simultaneously terribly romantical and smoking hot. Also, that your actual marriages will be less blasty but much more deeply satisfying -- bone-deep, marrow-deep, little secret core of you-deep.

Also, isn't this also one of Kat and Lori's anniversaries? If not their wedding anniversary, then at least the anniversary of their wedding party and what was reputed to be the best cake in the recorded history of cake. So happy anniversary, and may your right to call it that be re-affirmed by the powers that be as soon as possible, and happy cakeiversary, Kat and Lori!

Perkins, insent.

I'm still all wound up from circus-y work. I was there for almost 10 hours. I wore my polkadot corset and did a lot of fetching of random concession-stand items from the local Safeway, read two chapters of the copy of Gaiman's American Gods that Perkins gave away before moving, swept the lobby and tidied up the auditorium and the bathrooms between the matinee and the evening show, cleaned up the dressing room, sold a handful of t-shirts and several dozen red clown noses, watched a 45-minute show by the San Francisco Youth Circus that was an utter miracle of crazywild choreography, incredible teamwork and attentiveness by the kids, and ass-kicking music, re-tidied the auditorium and the dressing room (I am saddened to admit that the only creature more slovenly than an audience member is an actor), and finally dragged my aching self home.

But, still not tired.

RIO! JZ! PERKINS!

Yes, that seems to be all I have in me right now.

What vw said, only with a lot more !!!!s.

Yes, sleep eludes me again.

VW! EMILY!

I think I may need to go to bed now, so I can be nice and awake to go have big fun in the city tomorrow.

Bed? Sleep? What are these crazy things you speak of?

I don't know what timezone Eddie is in so I don't rightly feel I can scold him, but vw, you should most definitely be in bed.

However, since you're up, I at least have the opportunity to say semi-live and in person, go you with the rocking of the schoolwork! You're awe-inspiring and humbling and I'm so very glad to know you.

but vw, you should most definitely be in bed.

Did you read my story in Bitches? I don't think I'm going to be sleeping tonight.

And thanks so much!

Happy Anniversary to the ZMayhems!

And welcome to the world, Seth!

Robert's off playing tennis with the ambassador and the Greek Minister of Something-or-Other (sometimes being a diplomat really *is* like that) and the baby's asleep after a hard morning of smiling and cooing. I should be cleaning the house, but instead I'm trying to figure out if my stylus is causing my computer problems. I can't live without my stylus tablet for computer art, though, so I hope it's not.

JZ, your message is in Bitches.

But happy anniversary here, too.

Lily's cousin's birthday thing was today, so I got to spend a large part of my afternoon at his Little League game, where Former Gov. Gary Locke was also in the stands, though rooting for the other team.

Raquel, housecleaning is overrated. Stylus troubleshooting, however, is not. Good luck with it!

Happy Anniversary to JZ and Hec!!!