June 2010
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Slow down, world.
Good lord, I’ve been busy this week. So busy I forgot to Tumble. Sorry. Miss me? I missed you.
Three things I’ve been thinking about this week:
1. I’m coming up on a couple of important anniversaries this summer:
My sister’s 2nd birthday (not the anniversary of her birth, mind you, it’s the anniversary of the day she surprised everyone by not dying like the doctors...
Robert Reich: Closing the Hole in the Gulf: A... →
marcovhv:
A petroleum engineer who’s worked in the oil industry tells me BP is doing the minimum to clean up the oil and everything it can to protect its bottom line. According to the engineer, here’s what BP should be doing right now to mitigate the damage. If the President were to put BP into temporary receivership, he’d have the power to get BP to: 1. Stop releasing dispersants. So-called...
I'm moved in!
But not unpacked yet. Getting there, but it’s been made clear by the days and days of dicking around with boxes full of belongings that we own way too much shit.
Highlights of the move include:
1. Buttloads of friends working with such efficiency that we had all of our shit inside the walls of the house within 5 hours of moving.
2. Discovering that our flowerbeds are full of pretty...
May 2010
156 posts
Moving, not shaking.
I’m on what feels like day 2000 of packing up all of our shit so we can move into a new house. A house—a single family dwelling. Not a duplex. Not an apartment. A house. Tomorrow morning, we move.
I can’t wait to never have to hear the footsteps of children who are not mine racing and pounding above my head. I’m looking forward to not having to hear arguments that end in...