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girls just wanna eat and sleep

So it’s a girls’ weekend around here. This weekend is, apparently, the start of fishin’ season in Pennsylvania. I’ve run this factoid by a few of my Philly friends and gotten blank stares in response, but Brett is from them parts that actually know these dates and also get a day off of school at [...]

KID EATS CHEESEBURGER

Holy shit. I can’t remember the last time I posted. What I can remember, without looking back to read it, is that it was vaguely attempting to be wise and philosophical and probably a sappy goodbye to my teacher training. Enough about that. What I can remember is that for the second week this month, [...]

sweet spot

We are 36 hours into the Nor’easter that is pummeling much of the East Coast and I don’t have any idea how bad it is anywhere else because I’ve kept going to work even though yesterday was Veteran’s Day and today was essential personnel only.  I am not essential but I have so much work [...]

waiting. coughing. sneezing.

With all the talk of flu this and flu that paranoia, I think I’ve become a little jaded to the discussion.  News programs tell me I should fear the flu, but really I think we’re overstating it, just like shark attacks a few summers ago.  I didn’t really care, until I got a phone call from daycare [...]