Nilly, you are going to be a beautiful bride!

Unrelatedly, I have a crush on TJ Thyne from Bones

Oh, my, yes. I have quite the Thing for him.

Commute took 1.5 hours this morning. That sucks hairy donkey balls.

My kids won't be seeing the speech today at school. But, assuming school officials approve it, they might see it later this week at school. Their teachers are pretty likely to okay it.

Commute took 1.5 hours this morning.

That is not good.

That is not good.

Really, no. There's some new construction (in addition to the 6 year old construction) that's causing about a 30 minute backup. I need to find an alternate route.

Commute took 1.5 hours this morning.

Damn. That sucks.

Since I now live much closer to Evanston (two blocks), my commute can be as short as 25 minutes. It would probably be ten or 15 if I drove.

NILLY!! DRESS!!! WEDDING!!!!

I agree!

Also, I need much more coffee. It's fuhreezing in here.

So they are installing new cabling on my floor, so I have 2 ladders and 2 guys in my office, sawing holes in the wall and someone running a vacuum in the office they just finished with. Peaceful and conducive to work it is not.

NILLY!! DRESS!!! WEDDING!!!!

msbelle read my mind!

Not happy to be back at work.

msbelle read my mind, again!

I hope that commute time isn't going to be a regular thing, ChiKat.

I have been enjoying my 10-15 minute commute-by-car that I started since going back to work. Unfortunately, it does look more and more like we will have to think about buying a second car to make life go smoothly with the juggling of two full time jobs, nanny share and dog. Having never made a car payment in my life, I don't really want to start now, so I'm half hoping my parents offer to sell us the car they're currently loaning us.

I have some construction issues on my commute as well but luckily the alternate routes are pretty decent. Today's only trick was the railway crossing that cried wolf, well I guess it cried train, but no wolves or trains were to be seen.

Hey, people remember that president guy we elected last year?

My favorite part is the "Get Smart" bit....

Sasha And Malia Obama Head Back To School After Fun-Filled Summer

In Paris, they toured the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Louvre and Pompidou Center museums. They ate lunch at the Elysee presidential palace with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla. They shopped at Bonpoint, a high-end children's store.

London brought visits to Big Ben, the British Parliament's famous clock tower, as well as to Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, a Harry Potter movie set and Buckingham Palace, where they got a tour and a greeting from Queen Elizabeth II. They also took in "The Lion King" musical.

The family set out on another trip right after Malia turned 11 on July 4 that took them to Moscow, Rome and Ghana – all in one week.

At the Kremlin, Sasha stuffed her hands into her pockets as she walked its hallways. President Barack Obama said they began calling her Agent 99, after a character in the 1960s TV spy comedy "Get Smart."

"I thought she was going to pull out her shoe phone," the president joked.

A highlight of the visit to Rome was the Obama family's meeting with the pope. The sisters also took in such ancient Roman archaeological wonders as the Colosseum and the Pantheon, a domed monument in the city center. The also had fun learning how to make blackberry and banana gelato at Giolitti, the Italian capital's most famous ice cream parlor, and left the shop with several pounds of the ice cold confection.