The Reluctant Grownup – Page 184 – Growing old gracelessly.

Summer Sundays

It has rained here more or less constantly the last few weeks. We have some hours of clear skies, but not many. And since rain = flooded streets, the result…

July 28, 2019

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Acrobatics

Yesterday we were chillin’ in the cramped confines of our “office” – which is really a tiny bedroom that has the tv, computer, a bookshelf, and a couch squeezed into…

January 28, 2009

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Schedule Update!

This is boring – feel free to skip – I’m mostly posting for my own reference here. We’ve switched up the schedule and also my jar of slips – there…

March 21, 2020

In Order of Awfulness . . .

RG / January 8, 2010

Patrick is applying to several other schools now, in light of our recent REJECTION (the word rejection outlined in bright red light bulbs, the bulbs pulsing with a buzzing !You’re a Loser! sound…

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Insane

RG / January 8, 2010

Half the class has received their grade for Contracts*, and the other half has not, and in a fit of impatience/insanity – I can’t decide which – I’ve checked my grades 5 times…

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Must Get Up and Do

RG / January 7, 2010

I have a resume to refine, if I’m going to get a (very short) summer job as a research assistant for an employment law professor. Ironically, as deeply as I loathed the ways…

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Another Year

RG / January 6, 2010

Another year of crappy Christmas, birthdays, anniversary. No movies out, no dinners out, no relaxing on the grocery budget, no new clothes, no new toys for jack, no nursing bras for me, no…

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Brisk

RG / January 5, 2010

We walked Jack to the library to select some books, and try to perk up this dreary winter day. Winter presses hard in on us, even this far south. The sky is low…

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