A very good friend (Stephanie!) threw me a very fantastic baby shower this weekend and I am still so touched. I’m never comfortable with that much attention and never really feel like I should have parties thrown for me, so I was having flashbacks to my awkward wedding and bridal shower before I went. It [...]
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Archive for August, 2010
The garden is getting tense. The quest to turn my Mac into a convincing web development tool is not going well. The more proficient I become at using it, the more I find that I’m doing workarounds where workarounds shouldn’t be necessary. This thing was clearly designed as a personal computing tool for the the [...]
Last night was a circus. I was having nightmares associated with dinner when I woke up at about 3 am to the sound of something thudding against a door. That turned out to be one of the four house cats who would normally be in the garage at that hour, but had somehow gotten itself [...]
I’m taking the day off tomorrow for no more complicated reason than that I’m pregnant and tired. Week after week of just going, going, going has taken everything out of me. It will be nice to have tomorrow to try to start putting the nursery together. Bookmark It Hide Sites
Women are Secondary in Comics – If You Read the Wrong Ones
By Georgia on August 19th, 2010Posted In: Blog
I have to link you to the most asinine study I’ve seen in quite awhile. A recent paper concludes that women in the most popular comic strips in America are portrayed as objects, props, and supporting cast. The reason why this is comparable to concluding that water is wet is that the comic strips studied [...]
It was an exciting day yesterday when we finally took the trip to Babies R Us and got the three piece furniture set going in the nursery. The hard part about the trip was that the furniture had been a promised gift from my parents last March, and my mother had some firm ideas about [...]
