(Don't get too excited, Hec, it's still a longish bob.)

Ms. Pixie Supreme, I think that cut looks great on you. I'm just going to like it anyway.

You can't make me hate it!

Jess, it's sometimes better to just let it grow when you're pregnant. After the baby and your hormones shift, it may come in less thick or a slightly different texture. That's a good time to get it cut.

ION, my Dad (and his wife, and her brother and his wife) have arrived in San Francisco. Also, JZ and Emmett and Matilda have collected my sister from the airport and are headed back.

So everybody who needs to be at the baptism tomorrow will be at the baptism tomorrow!

Pictures of Matilda in the Bev dress will be shared as soon as we have them.

Sunday's all about Little League.

Timelies, all! I hope everyone is doing fabulously well. It's been ages since I've been by b.org. I miss hanging out here. Alas, work, while still pretty much my dream job, still isn't one where I feel comfortable hanging out here while on the clock. And SGA recently ate my brain after hours.

Anyway, I'm settling into things at the office. They're letting me write a lot. I've been on one work-related trip so far (to DC--no foreign travel yet), and I'm starting to see where the various factions and power-lines lie at work. Mostly because the various factions have decided I'm potentially useful and are trying to co-opt me. This is actually a good thing, because most workplaces with 90+ employees have factions and the attempted co-opting suggests I'm doing well enough to be potentially valuable.

I have a line on a new apartment so I'll probably be moving to Carrboro in a couple of months (a lefty-liberal town next door to Chapel Hill). And I've joined match.com, so I may get a little touch before I die. Both of these things seem right and good.

I skipped past months of messages (possibly an entire bitches thread--we're at 34 now?). But the end of this one seems to have a lot of laughter, cross-dressing, and John Donne, so I hope that's indicative of how life's been treating everyone of late.

"Are you mods or rockers?"

"We're mockers."

I know I will feel stupid for not knowing but OMG what is this from???

The Beatles. (Was it just from them or was it from A Hard Day's Night?)

Thanks, everybody, for the support and encouragement. Kristin, your post was extra-nice, what with the vast experience and all, but you've all been a major help for me today. This is such a supportive community. I can't express how much I love it, even when I disappear for weeks at a time.

I'm a bit drunk now, which is pleasant. And really, the day didn't go so badly, despite its beginning. The cheating classes retook their quizzes with minimal complaints - most of the major complainers were the ones that clearly didn't cheat, which I understand since I might have complained a bit were I them - and the class that took the quiz last week had a nice lesson of cutting out percentages from newspapers and discussing real-world applications. Went decently. The day was destined to feel crappy, else it might have been fine. Still, I earned my 3 beers and 2 gin and juices and 1.5 shots of jack daniels, and I'm glad I've had them. I will sleep well, now, and wake up fairly bright and fresh for a day of Saturday School (did I mention that I've been working some Saturdays for 3 hours, plus two afternoons a week from 4-6, outside of normal school time? I get paid extra for it, but still...) Then I'll see a musical (Grey Gardens yay!) and celebrate the history teacher's birthday by dancing and drinking, so tomorrow should be good if guilt-inducingly unproductive (in terms of grading and preparation for second semester).

I would prefer to organize my apartment. It could use it. Especially my bedroom, which is a disaster. I can barely walk in there. But that's okay. Who needs clean/unwrinkled clothes? Not me.

I turn 40 in ten weeks. Crap.

Don't fret, Tom. I turn 40 in about 7 weeks. I'll lose before you do.

I turn in 9 weeks. Or 11. It's just too late to count and I clearly didn't have Gris as a math teacher. I have no thoughts of a book of mine being published, although my mom just had her first book published, and she's 3.5 weeks from 77.

Speaking of Gris, I'm so glad your day was better than expected.

Steven Colbert explains the AT&T deal

I'm glad things didn't go as badly as you though they might, Gris.

Best wishes for Matilda's baptism.

I called my older nephew a little while ago to wish him a happy birthday. He's 11 today, which just seems so unreal. He was just opening the gift I sent him as I called, which was a happy coincidence. He loved the gift and we talked for a while. Then I remembered it was also a friend's birthday today. We haven't talked in a while, but I finally tracked down her number. I really have to make time to get together with her soon. I haven't been very good at keeping up the meatspace friendships the last few years.

Hi everyone.

I had a date tonight, someone I met on nerve.com.

It went fine until he told me that he sometimes likes to wear his Spock ears when he goes out to dinner.

I. Give. Up.