December 2011
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uh oh.
None of my students knew that Dickens created Scrooge, which, I mean, fine, whatever. As the husband pointed out, he is a well-known duck…
But!
They also all thought (think? It’s unclear how much they actually listen to me) that Sherlock Holmes was a real dude.
A very eventful night!
The husband and I went out to dinner last night for very poorly defined reasons (“uhh…it looks like the food in our fridge won’t rot for another couple of days?”)…
While we were there, we saw a girl I used to work with, the cross country coach of a school my school runs against, and a guy who bore a passing resemblance to Einstein. Quite a successful expedition!
It...
I get emails from MoveOn.org, because I pretend to be a good person who cares about the world.
Sometimes those emails are from a lady named Lenore Palladino, who, coincidentally, used to live in my apartment.
Because I only pretend to be a good person who cares about the world, I usually just delete the emails before reading them, but…something tells me I should look into this one a...
“Phineas and I were talking about superheroes, and I was explaining that they are...”
– A text from my sister re: the four-year-old nephew
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