Sleeping baby and a laptop is sort of like a beer after really good sex. Total relaxation.

Mom bought Naughty Origami at Powell's for an uncle-in-law. The book is fabulous, but I had to explain what one design was. Threeway - one behind and one in front. I need more wine.

Plei, a sleeping squeakaboo is BETTER than having beer.

So it looks like I'll be in Cincinnati in November for a couple of weeks. My old grad school has asked me to come back and do the sound design for their fall musical.

t does the dance of ND back in the 'hood....

Seriously, Drew -- you will not believe all the renovations to the campus/Clifton area. Some good (new undergrad dorms on Jefferson that look really nice and not like hellholes), and some questionable (Chicago Gyros had a renovation that made it all clean and fancy and yuppie). And there are now approximately 10,000 Indian restaurants in Clifton.

ION, The Boy = YUM.

ION, The Boy = YUM.

some statements are good to see

One of the squashes committed suicide in the microwave and barfed its squash-y guts up.

Cass, I need this for my next tag, pretty please?

I am so there, Anne.

Sincerely,

Crampy McParanoiapants

So me. And I'm so there with y'all, it isn't even funny. Well. I suppose someone observing my behavior, or my night-before the flood sleepless delirium might find it funny. In a not ha-ha sort of way.

And erika? Don't rightly knowya, but boring? That seems as unlikely as Munch cracking a smile for no good reason. I love your Homicidamania and, frankly, am seriously nicknaming my sweetie "Bunky." Seriously. I've already tried it out once. Think it might stick.

Exploding squash! Squash is comedy gold, I tell ya. Years ago, I saw a print of a bunch of crooknecked squash decked out like an operating room crew. The squash on the table had a surgical drape and artistically applied ketchup. Absolutely killed me.

Hey, some glitter shoes are just fine. Especially black glitter shoes. Or red glitter ballet flats.

I really do want and need ballet flats. Especially glittery ones. And, on a related note, I would kill to own glittery Dorothy slippers.

Kill.

IJS.

t runs through thread wearing only tiara and glittery ruby slippers

chases -t through the thread, moving speedily by virtue of her trainers. cackles madly.

although, in reality, I'm sitting here eating koshary.

Mmmmmm koshary! Starchiest of all known foodstuffs! Cheapest of Egyptian food! Rice, macaroni, 2 kinds of noodles, lentils, chickpeas and crispy fried onions, served with a tomato sauce and chili and/or garlic according to one's taste.

It couldn't be starchier. Well, short of being stuffed into a bun and served with fries.

Mmmmm koshary.

serial:

Apparently the best way to guage what a school is like is to do a quick goth count.

Gronk. Still hormonal, but feeling much less paranoid. I greatly appreciated the sympathy, the empathy, and the compliments.