It's a Scrappy inferno! Also, congratulations to my sister, who will be rollin in the dough. Roll, flea, roll.

filmmaker Steven Okazaki

I heard this fellow on public radio the other day. Hell of a project. Apparently, there are enough Hiroshima survivors living in SF that they have a monthly get-together to talk about the weird ilnesses they get/have gotten over the years.

JZ, Matilda continues to be adorable. It's weird because Grace is now completely bald of our own doing. Or really to correct the terrible cut the nurses gave her. She has a Natalie Portman/V is for Vendetta thing going.

Happy birthday, Robin.

I have a million things to do today and absolutley zero motivation to do them.

She does so exist

Look at that big girl! What happened to your baby???

a long time ago someone (I think it was Steph L. passing on her brother's recommendation) recommended a good value knife from target. Does anyone remember which one?

Sophia, it's this knife set. It's quite good for an average cook like me.

Burn Scrappy Burn!!!!!

Legend has it that bald-for-a-long-time babies end up with curly hair. Don't know if the olde wives are correct on this one, but they were on my sisters who were duck-fuzzed past two.

JZ, is your big girl big enough for the Tiki shirt now?

I think Suri Cruise may be bogarting much of the world's baby hair.

Wearing Cuban heel stockings to work today. V. exciting.

Kat--I hope you feel less at the end of your rope than you did yesterday.

Robin, happy birthday! It's been a full couple of weeks, huh?

Annabel was fuzzy-headed for the first few months, but then quickly grew lots of hair. I once had another mother ask me, apparently in all seriousness, how I got her hair to be so thick. I can't remember what I said, though I wish I'd either said, "DNA," or, "Why, I've been rubbing her scalp with Rogaine since we brought her home from the hospital."

Thanks Steph! I, to am an average cook, but I am sick to death of hacking away at my vegetables with a paring knif I paid $5.99 for at the grocery store!

I am in a bit of a panic, because my university has decided to change all the Healthcare Plans to make them "more fair" (I wish they would just say to save money). The upshot is that I used to pay nothing for my benefit and a $15.00 co-ay, and now I am basically going to have to pay $56.00 a month to get the same benefits or pay less and take a change that I have to come up with thousands of dollars if I am sick. My cost of living raise raise per month this year comes out to $61.00. Also, if I get my expected re-classification and big raise, I will have to pay more! And we have to pay $500.00 a year to park here (well, I don't, because I don't have a care.)

It is very anger making because the reason most people came to work at the University when there were higher paying options was because of the free health benefits and free school. Now that the other business in the area have crapped out and the University is now the highest employer in the area, they have been slashing our benefits. PLUS they are doing that crappy wellness thing where they pay you to take a health assessment survey-- which in my brain is just going to lead to me paying higher insurance because I am fat and depressed (although quite physically healthy).

Shoes stretch when you wear them, right?

Not often or extensively enough, if you're me.

Or, sometimes, too much.`