After 24 hours of no functioning modem, I have:

Yay for Cash's baby spoiler, and continued wishes for a good pregnancy.

Yay for Stephanie and family!

My nominee for one of the worst songs? Charlene with I've Never Been to Me

I sang this song all the time as a kid, never once realizing the point was that all the fun stuff was BADWRONG! I really sculpted my life goals around the other parts.

Hi Shambles! Your name makes me think of The Shambles, in York England.

What do we think of this?

I was happy to hear from you again. Attached is my updated resume, as you requested. I am still very interested in the position of Research/Staff Assistant at the Center for Social Development and Education. As a Psychology major with extensive administrative, research, and database experience, I believe I am highly qualified for the position.

As we had discussed in May, I have spent a portion of the last two years as a contractor helping the 32° Masonic Learning Centers for Children, Inc. with a large research project, using Microsoft Access. I also have significant experience with both Word and Excel and have trained office managers of a large real estate firm on both applications. I am a vivacious, well-organized worker who can support multiple individuals and projects at once.

My attached updated resume provides additional detail about my qualifications and experience. I look forward to speaking with you again about the position. Please contact me at (617) 864-4004 or at vrwinters@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yay, Stephanie and family!

Hooray for Family Stephanie! What good news to start the day with!

Yay for Stephanie, Joe and Ellie!

From TV Guide Online:

Just a week before its premiere, Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies has been fanny-slapped with an NC-17 rating, largely due to its depiction of an explicit three-way sex scene between Kevin "In Wild Things You Saw My" Bacon, Alison Lohman (White Oleander) and Colin Firth (the Bridget Jones movies). "It was so close [to getting an R rating," a defeated Egoyan tells the New York Daily News. Having had his appeal for an R denied by the MPAA, the director now will reinsert a lesbian scene that previously had been cut. So there.

runs off to stand in line for tickets.

Looks good, vw! A couple nitpicks:

As we had discussed in May

is probably better as "As we discussed in May"

and

My attached updated resume provides additional detail

"My attached resume has been updated to provide additional detail" reads less awkwardly to me.

Content is great.

Thanks, Raq! I'm gonna send it off shortly. Eek! I'm nervous about this one. I'd really like it, as it wouldn't require that I use my Federal Work Study (I don't think)...so, it would be more steady. Plus, it's in my field of study, which would also be good and helpful.

Last night, I guess following Teppy's dream about Lilybean & Susan's about Annabel, I dreamt that I drove to Louisiana to rescue the latter two (dream geography prevailing, of course). Annabel was perfectly lucid and articulate, and helped me devise our escape plans, but warned me not to let her mother know, otherwise she'd send her to school early and *that* sounded like a drag.

OK, that's hilarious, especially given that I've been stressing about her non-verbality again! She turned 17 months this week, and the 6th of every month is now the time where I freak out over her lack of talking, what might be causing it, etc. I really shouldn't have watched Letterman last night, for example--hearing Gwyneth Paltrow go on about the cute things 16-month-old Apple says didn't help me at all.

I'ma say it over here, too: Yay, Stephanie!!!