Also, while I was in the wilds of Michigan spending time with the family, I got addicted to Friday Night Lights and I'm looking for someone to blame. I would appreciate it if someone would step forward and admit to putting the episodes on my laptop and forcing me to hide from my family by consuming a backlog of media.

Tom, that was a lovely picture. Now *I* am glad that your apartment is facing eastward.

msbelle! When is your flight?

I've been TAing (and filling in for lecturers) for every work day in the past week-and-a-half. I don't have any voice left. Trying to speak makes me sound like a door or a furniture screeching in a low-badget horror-film (it's low-badget because each time I open my mouth I get a different sound effect, some of them pretty horrific and don't sound like a door at all. Not that it's supposed to sound like I have a horror-film set hidden in my throat, but still).

All this whining is here to say that, when typing, no-one can hear you squeak. So I just had to post.

[Edit: 3+1+1=5. Post #s don't screech either!]

I am at work because I am squeezing every vacation day I can. Plus I don't leave until midnight and there are copiers and printers here which I need right now.

I don't leave until midnight

How long is the flight?

Also, while I was in the wilds of Michigan spending time with the family, I got addicted to Friday Night Lights and I'm looking for someone to blame. I would appreciate it if someone would step forward and admit to putting the episodes on my laptop and forcing me to hide from my family by consuming a backlog of media.

I'll take the blame if it means we get to talk about it here. It was the first new show of the season that I knew I would keep watching.

I am also at work. I'd rather be here.

Meep, msbelle. I am so excited for you. We just went to church with our friends who adopted a Chinese girl, and I just discovered that my sister's sister-in-law is in the process of adopting two Guatemalan kiddos, the older about the same age as yours. They all seem to be doing really well with their processes, so here's hoping yours goes super smoothly.

with layovers, it ends up being 27 hours.

From Jessica's link:

Japanese Sake Spa

There is a constant dripping from a huge cask filled with real Japanese Sake! It is said that Sake is very good for the beauty of your skin. It is an enjoyable experience taking this type of bath. A unique Japanese experience.

AWESOME.

with layovers, it ends up being 27 hours.

Oh, wow. What's the time difference? [Edit: I wanna know if I'm going to be thinking about you when you're asleep or having lunch or waking up or whatever.]