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Shout-out to the nonbelievers

Posted on January 20, 2009
We were debating going to D.C. After seeing the crowds, I'm really glad we didn't. I'm happy to watch from afar as Aretha Franklin belts out "Let freedom ring," and President Obama warns us that there's no room for slackers in this country. After hearing Rick Warren's opening prayer, I thought about how the country may be ready for a non-white president, but I doubt we're ready for a non-Judeochristian president...

Fighting

Posted on January 14, 2009
"Good morning, buddy," said JW, pulling K up on to the bed. "Have you been having a good morning with Mommy?"K didn't say anything. "No," I supplied. "What have you been doing?""Fighting.""Fighting!" repeated K. "Fighting! Fighting!"The immediate cause of the fighting was his repeated attempts to rub his snot into my hair...

Phew

Posted on January 09, 2009
Called The Firm and confirmed my start date, a few weeks from now.Now when people ask when I'm starting work, I can stop adding, "...unless they call and tell me not to show up."P.S. - Update on my previous anxiety post: I realized I was being like a commitment-phobe who gets scared when their fling starts becoming a relationship...

I'll know I've hit bottom when I eat an entire pint of ice cream

Posted on January 05, 2009
Which could be tomorrow. I have been eating everything in sight lately.I am an anxiety eater. But I'm on vacation. What could I possibly be anxious about?After thinking about it, I realized: Work looms.I like my firm. I think the job will be good. I enjoyed the work I did last summer...

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 01, 2009
2009!This year always seemed so far off. 2008 was far off enough, and then when I took a semester off from school and realized I wouldn't graduate until 2009, it seemed like I would be in law school forever. (Which, really, would have been fine with me...

Help me, Obaba, you're my only hope

Posted on December 23, 2008
Barack Obama is probably the one person he hasn't met in real life that K is aware of. And he invokes his name regularly.br /br /In one of his books, there's a picture of a tall, slim man in a suit. "Obaba!" K says, pointing to it.br /br /"K, who gave you that feather?"br /"Obaba!" br /br /"K, are you okay? Are you stuck?"br /"Yeah!" br /"Daddy will help you...

Lament

Posted on December 22, 2008
Our dinner was punctuated with cries of "Ned, Ned!" and "Sun! Sun!" br /br /K recently got a book called a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Philip-D-Eastman/dp/0394800273/" target="newWin"Snow/a. The main characters, two girls and their dog, have all sorts of snow fun...

Back

Posted on December 20, 2008
For a week we were warm, and instead of sitting on the couch with our laptops open, JW and I wandered around at night and ordered tropical drinks at open-air bars.br /br /K asked to go home every day, and after a couple of days also started requesting to go to daycare...

Kicking and screaming

Posted on December 15, 2008
HLS! After gathering me unto your bosom lo, these many years ago, you are now thrusting me forth into the cold world. (Well, it will be cold after I come back from the Bahamas.)Don't make me go! I'll do winter term. I'll write papers and give tours! Just give me more time...

Baby hygiene updates

Posted on December 13, 2008
Haircut: a disaster. It's worth it to go to the specialty kids' place, I now realize; they are unfazed by screaming toddlers and will swiftly execute the cut. At the place around the corner, the hairstylist was so upset by his hysterics that she didn't even trim the back...

Second time's the charm?

Posted on December 12, 2008
It's haircut day for K!Here's how he reacted to his first (and last) professional haircut:Wish us luck.

Something I'm supposed to do

Posted on December 12, 2008
I had all these dreams last night that shared a theme of me neglecting my duties.I hope this has to do with my failure to get any work done last night, my lack of preparation for the holidays, the fact that I don't even know the flight times for our upcoming vacation, or the mess in our house, and not something else that I'm forgetting about...

Shower scene

Posted on December 11, 2008
At 3:30 in the morning, K started SCREAMING. I raced to his bedside and scooped him up. Quick check: kid, bed, room all seemed fine. "Scary dream?" I asked. He nodded, burrowing his head into my neck as I hugged him tight. "It's okay," I murmured. "You're safe...

Internal dialogue during an exam

Posted on December 10, 2008
Me: They said it would be straightforward and not to worry, but this seems too straightforward. Still me: So you're worried that you're missing something? Me: No... I don't think I'm missing anything. It's just that I'm not doing brilliant analysis or anything...

Idiopathic non-starting

Posted on December 04, 2008
Our car wouldn't start this morning. Thanks to our town's winter overnight parking ban, the car was in our very steep driveway. We managed to push it out with the other car, pull the other car out over the lawn, and leave the non-starting car on the sidewalk (sorry, pedestrians)...

Clingy

Posted on December 02, 2008
All weekend it was "MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY." I kept trying to escape upstairs to get some work done while the grandparents hung out with K, but I found it hard to ignore the cries. The second he saw me K would run over and attach himself to my leg."He's getting clingy," I said to JW...

The end of the internship

Posted on December 01, 2008
My government internship is over! YAY! I am very glad I did it, and very glad I don't have to do it anymore.I learned...lots about criminal law, and that I never want to do it again.about the dark side of government work.much more about the techniques of child molesters than I ever wanted to know...

Post-Thanksgiving

Posted on November 29, 2008
Ate two rounds of turkey. #1 was at a family friend's house where "the kids," who are all now in their 30s and 40s, converge every year. I still remember a few years ago when one of us was pregnant, and then the following year when everyone was all excited that we had a baby at the party...

Goodbye billable hour

Posted on November 26, 2008
While researching for my business school-style class on how to run a professional services firm, I came across this fantastic blog: Gruntled Employees. It's run by Jay Shepherd, head of the Shepherd Law Group here in Boston -- a firm with NO BILLABLE HOURS...

Evolution is just a theory

Posted on November 24, 2008
One of the most interesting parts of A.J. Jacobs' The Year of Living Biblically was his visit to a creationist museum. The museum had a Ph.D. on staff, a guy with a doctorate in archaeology or geology or some sort of earth-sciencey subject, who Jacobs described as bending over backwards to explain why evolution was wrong...

If I had time

Posted on November 21, 2008
...I would have posted copiously this week on the following subjects.This interview about Obama's faith, from 2004 but just released in its entirety. I've never been an Obama true believer, but this interview sways me a little in that direction. One quote: I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others...

Weekend

Posted on November 17, 2008
Life has been crazy. JW has been working almost literally nonstop, so it's me and K against the world.Saturday it rained all day. I took K out for a walk and we both got soaked in the ten minutes we were outside.Sunday we had an adventure. I was about to load K into the car to go grocery shopping, but after being cooped up in the house all day he wanted nothing more than to go outside...

Lightbulb

Posted on November 14, 2008
As a pre-baby Christmas present, CT got us a full set of Childcraft books. My brother and I loved these books as kids. When I was pregnant I went looking for our 1970s set, but my unsentimental mother had thrown ours out without telling us. I was thrilled to get the books for K's shelf...

Looking back

Posted on November 13, 2008
I finally upgraded my template (not that it looks that much different -- I couldn't bear to get rid of my dinosaur) and now I'm all organized with labels.I went back and looked at all the "doctor's appointment" posts. In one of the early posts from when K was just a few months old, I found this, referring to an advice column that said your four-month old baby will stare at you while nursing because he wants to show how much he loves you:I got all excited, thinking, really, he's going to love me when he's four months old? That kept me going for a while...

Anything to get out of a nap

Posted on November 10, 2008
JW left for the airport right before K's naptime on Sunday. Maybe that's why K wouldn't settle down. I went in a couple of times and did the patting-and-singing routine, ignoring his efforts at conversation.K has the alphabet on his walls, starting with A in one corner of the room and going all the way around to Z...

Hey you kids, get off my blog

Posted on November 08, 2008
And stop cribbing your book reports from here.(Yeah, I checked my Sitemeter stats again. I know what you're up to!)

President Obama

Posted on November 05, 2008
Years ago, when we drove cross-country to our new home in Massachusetts, JW and I stopped at the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis. We each got a phrenology reading from a contraption that poked our heads with metal prongs and spat out a list of attributes...

Afterwards

Posted on November 05, 2008
On the streets: Everybody?s got at least one newspaper. Among minorities, lots of grinning at random strangers.In my ?Race Relations and the Presidential Election? seminar: Jubilation, cupcakes, tears.From some of the clinical faculty: Speculation of a mass exodus out of HLS (and Stanford Law) to D...

Election night

Posted on November 04, 2008
JW is off at a party. I get to stay home to make sure the house doesn't burn down and the kid is safe. It's a good thing, actually, because K has been sick and has been having trouble sleeping. I've already been in and out of his room twice. The problem is, since he keeps waking up, I can't turn the TV on because the noise will disturb him! Just when I think it's safe, I hear a squeak from his room...

Voting time is here

Posted on November 04, 2008
Those are the lyrics of today's Election Song. (September's began, "Vote, vote, we love to vote.")At a class dinner party, a friend made a pro-Obama comment that she thought one of our professors made a face at. She looked up his donation record and sure enough, he had maxed out to McCain...

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