And I can't be the only one who'd love to see Nilly's inner Jewish mommy.

Oh, yeah? Well, you'll have to make sure that you drink enough fluids before you do (and do you want some soup? Or some other hot drink? Or maybe lunch?), and wear a sweater (what, not the one that I made for you? Don't you like the one I knitted for you? I stayed up so late in order to finish that!), and not when it's raining (and always keep an extra pair of socks in your bag, just in case, and do you want an extra blanket? Or a blanket at all?). Wait, was that a cough? Then you'll have to see a doctor, first, too (oh, and while you're at it, let them have some blood tests, just to make sure you're OK. You're really not eating enough. Are you sure about that soup?).

Um, what was I saying?

Nilly, you forgot to ask why we're not married yet, and if we are, why we haven't given you any grandchildren (after all, you're not getting any younger).

Kathy, seeing as my inner Jewish mommy is still single and childless (as I am), she doesn't want to invoke those questions. Somebody may start questioning her own mommy cred, especially without the married part (and you just specified yourself how important that is), and then what would she be? The inner Jewish not-a-mommy-yet-but-knows-already-how-to-be-a-Jewish-one?

[Edited because even an inner Jewish not-a-mommy-yet-but-knows-already-how-to-be-a-Jewish-one know how to spell "mommy".]

Nilly, here is a summary of my life currently:

My family is driving me insane.

My work is driving me insane.

I am glad I have friends.

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I am in the middle of doing way too much laundry. I think that seriously at least half my wardrobe is in a washing machine right now.

(And I'm in the middle of rereading Anne of Green Gables, and remembering how Marilla made Anne three dresses and thought that was plenty, while I've got probably thirty shirts, six or seven pairs of pants, four dresses, and about eight skirts. She had less laundry, but considering the difference in laundry technology, it was probably more work.)

Nilly! Eeee! I love your inner Jewish mommy. She really sounds pretty much like...me. I have to learn to stop that at some point, yeah?

Kathy, want pictures of the haircut! I love a good haircut. I need one. I'm just too broke and too booked to go get one till week after next.

I'm really tired of the whole "fashion" of women looking like they dressed out of their baby sisters' closets. Clothes should contain enough fabric to cover the body, unless one is A. on the beach, or B. at play. A work environment should not contain visible belly buttons, navel jewelry, cleavage, or the top of your thong. Unless you work on a pole. Just my opinion. Also? Get off my lawn.

P-C! Sorry to read about the driving-insane part of the family-job combination. Ouch. I'm glad to read that there's at least one good element in the whole picture for you.

Do you have local friends in SF already (or from previous online communications)? Or only Buffistas?

[Edited to wave to Beverly. Do you like soup that much, too?]

Do you have local friends in SF already (or from previous online communications)? Or only Buffistas?

I have local friends in the Bay Area from Buffistas, various other online communities, and Rice.

What's Rice?

College.