Happy Birthday Erika!

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village:

Ah, but are Lana's parents dead?

Today got off to a good start—the first e-mail I read after getting to work was Big Boss telling me I was amazing and waxing complimentary about some technical illustrations I sent out last night.

Feeling so antisocial recently. Not really a problem when it comes to my classes, but it is a problem that I'm not sending emails and making phone calls and inquiries about class visits and product purchases that I really need to.

EdVant*age (is this googleable-- I should delete!)

Is it just me, or does this name feel a little porny? (without the asterisk, of course, which I put in to fool the google)

Go you Matt!

back pats are a great way to start the day.

Oh, Emily! I just thanked you in my heart a few minutes ago!

Somebody here asked me about the difference between "i.e." and "e.g" and I told him which is which, and I told him the trick I use to remember it, which is totally your trick that you posted in a Natter thread, many many threads ago (that "e.g." is "for example" with the trick of "for egxample", and "i.e." is "in other words" because it starts with an "i"). Thanks! See what a great teacher you are?

Was that me? Excellent! Thanks, Nilly!

Is it just me, or does this name feel a little porny? (without the asterisk, of course, which I put in to fool the google)

It does to me, and I have to say it fifty hundred times a day 'Good morning, EdVant*age, this is Sophia!". And fifty hundred times a day, someone says... "Is this the University of R______?" because Advantage is the name of a prominant credit union in town.

This one is about my neighborhood and my neighbors, Nilly.

It sort of struck me that in just about every interview, the interviewers always said (very matter-of-factly) that "no one knows their neighbors, anymore...especially in New York and LA)."

And I thought, "hm. I know my neighbors."

I grew up in a neighborhood where I knew all my neighbors.

There's at least a handful of interesting backdrops to knowing my neighbors, like the community garden, and the fire in Griffith Park. So I thought it might be interesting to explore community again, but instead of internet, my actual neighborhood.

Bread and Jam for Frances

love this series (and the spelling of the name too) for kids.

Seconding the love. But have people actually come up with alternate spellings for Frances? (Aside from the boy version, I mean.) Weird. After hearing that people spell ND "Dru" I'd believe just about anything though, I guess.

Huh. We know most of ours too. I thought it was just the 'hood we are in.