I have to go by a Borders to buy my first textbook, and what am I going to be doing about notebooks for note-taking, anyway? Must go by a Staples, too, then! Life suddenly seems so complicated.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! Casper woke up with a wet bed (unusual for her) so we started the day with laundry. Now she's at school (second day) and they are going to do a ceremony called "walking around the sun" where she carries a globe and walks around the circle once for each year of her life. mr. flea will be there to talk about milestones and show pictures. Apparently this is a Montessori thing.

After school ends at 12, to the Museum with grandparents, then we'll have her (family only) birthday party when they get back. She is getting clothes, Tinkerbell panties, a bad animated movie about horses with Bryan Adams music called "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," a bike helmet, and a bike, and several other things that I don't know what they are yet. Seriously, a zillion presents, and they are only from immediate family (parents, 2 aunts, 3 sets of grandparents.) Imagine if we'd invited her whole class to a birthday party like some people did!

Is it sad that my lunch is the big event of the day that I'm looking foward to?

I hope not, because I'm looking forward to lunch, too! I have chicken and linguine in garlic and olive oil, pine nuts, peas, summer squash, tomatoes, green onion, and parmesan, with fresh blueberries for dessert.

Theo, congrats on your new school new year! Go you! I'm very happy for you.

We're rocking lunch buddies!

OMG you guys, those lunches sound so good!

Now she's at school (second day) and they are going to do a ceremony called "walking around the sun" where she carries a globe and walks around the circle once for each year of her life.

Huh. That sounds kind of interesting, but really only doable for the littles, right? I mean, twelve times around the circle would take all day! Or does Montesorri not go all the way up?

Theo, I found dollar stores to be excellent sources of notebooks when all I really needed was some paper to write on and not a $10 Notebook System.

We're rocking lunch buddies!

We have tasty comestibles and shiny hair! We should be fighting crime.

Now I'm trying to decide on whether to buy two notebooks (one for each course) or a double-subject one, and how big (steno or standard) and whether it should be the perforated detachable paper. And of course, whether there should be a unicorn or a dragon on the cover.

Seriously, my whole academic performance could rest on these details!!!1! Or maybe I'm just obsessing over the details to allay my anxieties? Surely not.

Don't forget about college vs standard (? the wider one) ruling!

Congratulations on re-studenting, Theo!

And yay new job and going for change even when it scares you, sarameg!

And Sophia, paying off creditors is not boring. Being your own woman and the boss of your own money is a noble and excellent goal (this means you will be at the next F2F, right?).

And Happy Fourth Birthday, Casper!

I have a couple of hours of painfully dull data entry ahead of me; I'm saving the paperdol/SJR interview for then. It shall be a balm unto my brain (the paperdol half, anyway).