Before I go to bed, can I just say Britney Spears made my eyes bleed in her new commercial. I have a serious wiggins going and it's all fromthat.

It was very eye bleed causing.

PM -- ...insent. I think. If that means what I think it means. You have email coming, is my point here. I'm having an existential crisis now because I recognize the terminology from years of lurking, but I don't feel comfortable using it. Anyway. Hi.

Whew! All done. Way too tired to watch Lost or VM. I think I can manage my Another World rerun, and then fall over.

I taught twice today. Really taught by myself -- once with the L3 instructor peering at me (I'm going to run the class myself every other week), and my assistant for the L2 didn't show, so that was all mine. I don't think I've ever been so relaxed and energetic. It was the long drive (that ended going through Malibu, so fire smells traded for ocean salt) and the Red Bull.

Not willing to duplicate it, though.

Lightweight.

(I'm kinda far away, as it turns out.)

Yay ita, for good classes!

And yay baby Ellie for being such a killer cutie pie. Egad, I don't think I've seen her before. She's a beauty.

Yay ita!

Hey, have you watched last week's CSI? Like Cass and Msbelle, I want to know what you think.

Perkins, I think it's wrong. I mean the thing that we learn. Then it's also weird, the thing that the woman says. Not that we're not all thinking it.

I'm undecided, if I want it to end well. Or, what well really is.

I love that 4th of July pic. I need to scroll back and look at these new ones. Not much pic looking at during the traffic jams, on the Blackberry.

Perkins, I think it's wrong. I mean the thing that we learn. Then it's also weird, the thing that the woman says. Not that we're not all thinking it.

I may need to rewatch, since I don't really understand your comment.

I'm not sure which of us Annabel prefers at this point. I'd say it's 50-50. She gratifies Dylan with her bouncey glee every night when he gets home from work, but puts on a similar performance for me if I disappear for any length of time. Heck, sometimes she'll jump for joy if one of us comes back from getting the mail in or taking the trash out, which is gratifying to the ego. And what she really loves is having all three of us together, especially the bedtime ritual of the Family Hug.

It helps, of course, that she's a self-sufficient child, on the whole, good at playing by herself.

Strega--got and responded and thanks.

Lillian, after falling asleep in a hilarious (had I been dressed in something other than an open bathrobe, we'd have taken pictures) position on my lap during VMars, has decided that no, it wasn't quite bedtime.

She's being pretty cute though, the weirdo.