I was just remembering the Thanksgiving at Tom and Nora's! Good times. Also, Scrabble. And excellent food.

I've had a whirlwind vacation, including three new pieces of furniture, more of my belongings transported here, a Chaplin film with symphony accompaniment, and the Barber of Seville. I'm kind of exhausted and could use a weekend.

Oops.

Happy birthday, DJ!

Your friend doesn't know what happens to the card once you've gotten it. So you're in a petty kind of mood--ride it out without shame. No blood, no foul.

DJ, I forgot to say Happy Birthday!

Very pretty, Ms. Bug. You know you can do brunette just as well as you did blonde.

Thanks! This is my natural color, as I’m too lazy and broke to color it right now. I like it. It works.

Silent receipt of the card is acceptable then, to me.

I agree.

Also, Happy Belated Birthday, Daisy Jane!

I'm kind of exhausted and could use a weekend.

This is TOTALLY how I feel. I love my parents, and I had a fabulous time at their place, but I got *no* schoolwork done, except for reading a chapter of a book that has a paper due tomorrow and interviewing one of my parents’ neighbors for a paper due on Thursday. Ugh.

Dropped Dad off at the train station near my house and just got home. I'm ready for a nap. But, must get to work. Craziness will abound the next few weeks.

I managed to cut someone out of my life, and she just sent me a card.

Good luck... I'm currently agonizing over this from the other side. My friend B. cut me loose a few months ago and I'd like to send her a birthday card...

Hmm.

Good luck... I'm currently agonizing over this from the other side. My friend B. cut me loose a few months ago and I'd like to send her a birthday card...

I'm going through this with my Christmas card list.

Dear commuter train:

Please be on time, and do not hurtle forward through space to try to make up your lateness because we are JAMMED in the aisles and you are just asking for a frikking lawsuit.

Dear shuttle bus:

Please get it together and add more busses per hour and stop whining to us, the riders about your lack of funding. We don't care. We just want to get to work on time. Also, if your shuttle is JAM packed with 10 minutes to go until the scheduled depart time, please leave immediately, instead of having all of us crowded together, overheated and cranky and not moving any closer to our destination.

Dear elusive independant wealth:

WHY are you not with me? If you were, I wouldn't have to deal with stupid commutes every day.

Dear "Safety Dance" song:

Thank you for cheering me up considerably after the standing and the lurching and the pushing and the shoving and the oh-my-knee-hurts and the glayvin.

Love & kisses,
Nora

Belated Happy Birthday, Daisy Jane!

My friend B. cut me loose a few months ago and I'd like to send her a birthday card...

It sounds like Miss Manners needs to address the etiquette of the disputed end-of-friendship. I wonder if divorce procedures apply here.

It sounds like Miss Manners needs to address the etiquette of the disputed end-of-friendship. I wonder if divorce procedures apply here.

I know, right?