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Archive for February 2009

freeze into time now

On 23 February 2009

TIMES WHEN IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO OWN A SCALE I am wearing some pants today that I have not worn in a few months, and they are all floppy and clowny and sliding down my ass gangsta-style. Ask my sister-in-law about how she twice prevented me from buying things in size XL, even after […]

mud, of course

On 13 February 2009

HAPPY GENDER EXPECTATIONS DAY At the Valentine party at Nora's school, the kids were encouraged to “dress up.” The school is kind of big on dressing up, actually. Not on a day-to-day basis, but they talked about dressing up and looking sharp for the Winter Assembly, the Inauguration festivities, and other events. It is not […]

strange kind of feeling

On 9 February 2009

The fog is making me want to crawl back to bed, although I feel about one thousand percent better than I did yesterday, when I mostly schlubbed around in pajama pants and cursed the day that cheap American lager was invented. LT took Nora to the zoo so I could repent in peace, which was […]

predefined educational goals

On 1 February 2009

I GET INTO DUMB ARGUMENTS WITH PEOPLE AND MACHINES 1. The other day I had a fight with a graphic-designer coworker about “tag clouds.” Me: I just think it's stupid. Graphics Guy: They look cool, though.Me: Who cares how it LOOKS? Stupid. And useless. And simple-minded. Oooh look, the important words are really BIG.GG: You […]