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Archive for December 2006

let all the workers march toward progress

On 27 December 2006

There is only one real-life person who occasionally attempts to deliver a Mommy Smackdown to me, and I try to be extra-careful not to go to the mattresses with anyone when it comes to parenting issues. Well, I do have good friends to whom I have said something like, “Um, wow, how's that working?” Or, […]

waterproof flange

On 19 December 2006

NARROW WORLD OF SPORTS As a student of rhetoric and literature (hi! It's Pretentious Opening Sentence Day!), I can sometimes become overly hung up on the football announcing rather than the specifics of the game itself. Monday Night Football no longer features the stroke-victim outbursts of John Madden, but I needn't have worried—Tony Kornheiser seems […]

harlot, stimulated by gingerbread and a postal order

On 6 December 2006

THINGS WE NEED TO WORK ON 1. Night Crisis Syndrome. Otherwise known as the fact that Nora does not seem to be able to handle a normal sleep-cycle interruption by rolling over, replacing index finger in mouth,* and going back to dreamland but instead has to get up and run crying down the hallway in […]