Excellent. I love wearing dresses.

My wanting children can only be blamed on temporary insanity. Speaking of which, I need to run and drag my son into the office to do some boring work during Spring Break. Yesterday he was on Warcraft all day. Today he is my child laborer.

Okay, help needed. I'm looking for a non-beauty pagent answer to this question. I have a friend who is starting the adoption process and needs a sincere but not schmaltzy answer to "Why do you want to adopt?"

Having had to answer that more than once...but, my answers come from someone who was adopting as a first choice, so there is that aspect to my answers. here are main bullet points I have used.

- I want to be a mother and having biological children was not important to me.
- I am touched by the large numbers of orphaned and neglected children in the world and adoption is one way to address the needs of one child.
- I support negative population growth and see adoption as a positive step in that direction.
- I have a medical condition, that may not prevent me from carrying a child to term, but very likely would make a pregnancy difficult and possibly dibilitating for several months.

Sorry, but I will not be pimping Allyson's book at my office. My immediate superior and another co-worker are both Whedonverse fans and people I'd have gladly invited to become Buffistas long ago if not for the fact that this is where I vent about work.

I'd pimp Allyson's book at work... if I only had a job!

(OK, really, I am NOT that pathetic about being laid off, but I might as well get Pathetic Points while I qualify for them.)

As it is, I will be talking up the book in all the venues that I frequent.

msbelle, thank you! the acquaintance who is starting the adoption process is struggling with that answer, but I sent it to her to see if it will get her thinking about her own reasons in a fuller way.

I have a list of things to do again. I wonder if I'll accomplish anything other than having durable medical hardware removed?

does the book mention this website by name?

Kat, here is my to do list for you:

- have durable medical hardware removed
- eat
- sleep
- rest/watch tv
- pump
- visit babies

Theo, did your former place of employment offer you (and nutty I believe) a decent severance at least? Or help with placement since it was a layoff? Also, sorry about the layoff.

I strongly approve of Msbelle's list.

It's a good list. But honestly, the less I have to do, the more I worry.

Robin - did you get anything from us?