Graduation was very nice today. Sad and wonderful as graduations often are.

I came home and crashed for three hours, and I am supposed to be grading now. Donwanna. Also? My kitchen smells. This is how much it needs cleaning. So did I clean it? No. I lit candles instead.

crap I shoulda come over and cleaned your kitchen instead of having sherry. drat.

Day from hell yesterday.

Put in another application for a rental house. I feel good about this one, but you know? At some point in life I thought I'd make enough money and be respectable enough to not get turned down for rentals.

ION, this vid of women in art is tres cool: [link]

I would totally rent to you Raq, if I were wealthy enough to own real estate in that area that is.

That video was fabulous. Nice that some people have that kind of time. Wow.

Random news: I scored a T-shirt that says "Kiss My Tiara" for $3 on the clearance rack yesterday.

Ben and I are seeing Pirates 3 today, too. So far it's been a decent weekend, aside from the punishing humidity and heat. Blech.

What kind of asshats are renting in the D.C. area, Raq? Who wouldn't want a smart, sexy woman of the world with an adorable child and husband?

vw, your day yesterday sounds ... well, head-bangy. But it all worked out! And there was icce cream!

sj, I'm so sorry about the family picture thing. That's just mean. I'm glad you and TCG had some fun, though.

Does anybody else play the game Tropix? I downloaded it the other day. It's just a silly little collection of games like Solitaire and Sudoku and a Zuma clone etc. but you also have this island with a monkey and a crab on it and you buy them things. It's very silly and apparantly designed just for me because I totally love it. Anyway I named my first island La Isla Buffista.

Thanks for the symapthy, everyone. Thanks for the -ma for my aunt as well. We're going to make an extra effort to see her this summer.

Housing-ma Raq.

Maria, not the Italian side of my family, fwiw.

Ah...loving this new setup.

Poor Raq! People should totally rent to you. Do you need references? I would totally be a reference for you.

Thanks guys! I don't think it's a reference thing - I think it's that we want to live someplace nice and the landlords of those places don't want toddlers.

However, the place I'm hoping for now already has baby gates on the stairs, so some tenant had a child.

Or a dog, I guess.

Glad you're happy with your new computer setup, bug! Esp. after the hassle.

Oy. I really hope it works out, Raq. That would be so frustrating.