No?!?

Heh.

But a single word with punctuation seems like it would feel ungrammatical.

Huh?

Ow!

Wow!

Wrod.

My company announced yesterday that the Cedar Rapids office would be closed due to potential flooding until further notice.

Bah. A few minutes ago I almost got hit by a truck. The guy was at a red light trying to make a right turn while I was crossing the street. He started pulling forward and I jumped/ran out of the way as he hit the brakes.

This happens to me at least once a week. I think there's a sense of disbelief that pedestrians exist in LA.

Kat what is the article saying that is freaking you out?

Huh?

Ow!

Wow!

I feel like I just stepped into the Schoolhouse Rock segment on interjections.

They show emotion. And excitement.

Here's the article. It's quite long but interesting enough.

But this:

Social scientists know in remarkable detail what goes on in the average American home. And they have calculated with great precision how little has changed in the roles of men and women. Any way you measure it, they say, women do about twice as much around the house as men.

The most recent figures from the University of Wisconsin’s National Survey of Families and Households show that the average wife does 31 hours of housework a week while the average husband does 14 — a ratio of slightly more than two to one. If you break out couples in which wives stay home and husbands are the sole earners, the number of hours goes up for women, to 38 hours of housework a week, and down a bit for men, to 12, a ratio of more than three to one. That makes sense, because the couple have defined home as one partner’s work.

But then break out the couples in which both husband and wife have full-time paying jobs. There, the wife does 28 hours of housework and the husband, 16. Just shy of two to one, which makes no sense at all.

The lopsided ratio holds true however you construct and deconstruct a family. “Working class, middle class, upper class, it stays at two to one,” says Sampson Lee Blair, an associate professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo who studies the division of labor in families.

“And the most sadly comic data is from my own research,” he adds, which show that in married couples “where she has a job and he doesn’t, and where you would anticipate a complete reversal, even then you find the wife doing the majority of the housework.”

Housework, in this context, is defined as things like cooking, cleaning, yardwork and home repairs. Child care is a whole separate category — one that is even more skewed. The social scientist’s definition of child care “is attending to the physical needs of a child — dressing a child, cooking for a child, feeding and cleaning them,” Blair says. It doesn’t include the fun stuff, like playing and reading and kissing good night.

Where the housework ratio is two to one, the wife-to-husband ratio for child care in the United States is close to five to one. As with housework, that ratio does not change as much as you would expect when you account for who brings home a paycheck. In a family where Mom stays home and Dad goes to work, she spends 15 hours a week caring for children and he spends 2. In families in which both parents are wage earners, Mom’s average drops to 11 and Dad’s goes up to 3. Lest you think this is at least a significant improvement over our parents and grandparents, not so fast. “The most striking part,” Blair says, “is that none of this is all that different, in terms of ratio, from 90 years ago.”

It's all whoa. K and I have a somewhat equitable breakdown that is mostly dependent on who has time off when. Things get tense around times when we both work full time.

Right now, she's doing the lionshare of the work. And that will change soon enough. But to see those ratios is depressing.

In the department of "please, God, don't let this happen; politics have been crazy enough so far this century," speculation on an electoral college tie:

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