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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Domestic goddess update
So it turns out that not only were the former-crap-LA-curtains the right length to be cut into front panels for the shades, but they were the right width to um… not be altered if the seamstress in question was extremely … Continue reading
Serendipity…
So when I’d planned out all these curtains last year, apparently I made a mistake in calculating for cloth – I picked a very nice denim fabric for the bedroom curtains, but I didn’t get enough of it. I suck. … Continue reading
Week 39: Bump, kick, nudge, ouch, baby, don’t you want to come out yet?
38 weeks, even. Ok, so it’s 4:30 am on Sunday, but I’m still up and just about to go to bed on an enforced-bedtime-so-that-I-don’t-sleep-too-late-Monday deadline. Yeah, yeah, 4:30 am is too late by anyone’s measure, but it was 6:30 or … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, baby preparations, labor and delivery, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, pregnancy, slacking, Thanksgiving, writing
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Lift-off… liveblogging my wordcount
Ok, so I said I’d start writing at around 4 this afternoon. It’s now almost 6:30, and between backache, hormones, emptying the dishwasher, hormones, ravenous hunger, hormones, answering a few emails, hormones hormones hormones, the distraction of the Internets, and … Continue reading
Back on track…
So I woke up late today – superlate, actually – after a good Thanksgiving. No turkey, but some quality time with Christian and a nice warm dinner (with tasty dessert), plus a nice slow walk together out in the cool … Continue reading
Thankful.
Ok, so my last post was full of snark, but seriously, it’s (in the U.S.) Thanksgiving, and so I’ll be serious for a moment before I go make the two of us a Thanksgiving dinner (not turkey this year – … Continue reading
A word to the not-so-wise…
Sometime in, oh, I don’t know… April of this year, I made a snarky tongue-in-cheek post about the AOL generation trying to reproduce and some of the very special things (especially the very special acronyms) the folks on the “TTC” … Continue reading
The quarter is oooooooooover, the exam is printed… I’m finished!
As I mentioned in my last post, I finished writing up the final exam sometime early this morning before I went to bed (and I was entirely correct in thinking that because I’d outlined the last essay in English, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Denver, German, good things, Life, pregnancy, snow, weather
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And… done!
Wrote the last essay in English. It’s a little long, but I’m done. Tomorrow I’ll format, print, and take a quick trip to the university to deliver it. And then… naptime, I’m sure. Good night, Internets…
