A friend's mother said she had the second kid because no way could labour have hurt that much the first time round. That misconception didn't last long.

Would go a way to explain the national average.

CSI this week featured the dining in the dark that we never got a chance to try. Coincidentally as I watch it, it was to be with the same friend as in the first paragraph.

Noah is being impossibly cute. Literally. His cuteness is impossible. Grace too is being cute. THIS is how babies get you to make more of them.

It's so true. And they are in the early days of impossible-to-imagine cutedom. I think of ages 1 to 3 as the Zone of Cuteness. That reminds me, I need to get a proper family portrait done this fall. And I want to finally do Christmas cards this year. Isaac finally fits into the leiderhosen his grandmother bought him.

I have a CSI question...does anyone know who played Michael the blind waiter in this week's ep? I keep thinking I've seen him as a vampire--in Blade on TV, maybe? Or the Underworld series?

eta: Burrell--you know I still have a heap of negatives of you, right?

What a day in college football! USC goes down, and for two weeks in a row Florida has Tiger problems...

uh oh, 'SC lost? That means I'll have to deal with grumpy students on Monday.

I'm in a scrabulous game with someone who cleared their rack twice! in one game! I'm down by 100, which considering, I feel good about.

Not just lost, but lost to last-in-the-Pac10 Stanford! Whee!

WTF is up with College football this year?

It's on crack. Seriously.

My head hurts. Almost enough for me to lie about how long (I'm supposed to not wait past day 2, but this is day 1) because I have no painkillers I can take for it, and drinking myself senseless looks very unappealing.

I have social plans for tomorrow, and I fear I'm going to have to ask him to take me to the ER instead. Maybe I can buy him lunch first.

Scrabulous is alternately too much and too little. A day like today, I could play it forever. And other days it's way too much.