You should sing the title of this post to the tune of Sinead O’Connor’s “Last Day Of Our Acquaintance.” Tomorrow will be my first first-day-of-work since 1999. I have a little bit of the nervous…
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The Wordy Shipmates
I often like to call Sarah Vowell the Gen X Doris Kearns Goodwin or Stephen Ambrose. She’s a historian for our time, and unlike the Goodwin and Ambrose books I had to study in college,…
If you could see (and hear) me now
You would find a rather large woman sitting in a rather large green chair wearing blue pajama pants smeared with cinnamon roll frosting (marks left by the Tibbles on Wednesday) and a black cardigan sweater…
50 years of wanting to do with it you
50 years of popular songs condensed into single sentences. My favorite: Frank Sinatra, “Strangers in the Night” — I’m drunk and I want to do it with you. {via}
The last days of unemploymenthood
It seems only fitting that I spend my last few days of unemploymenthood watching the worst that TV has to offer while sporting pajamas. Of course, I’d have probably done that anyway but being sick…
Great moments in babysitting history
It’s not often that I am proud of my mad babysitting skills. But today, today I impressed myself. The Tibbles were sitting on my lap and we were singing songs. We had already run through…