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From the monthly archives: December 2008
“Look at our little bobble head,” said the Guy, putting a sleeping Hobbes down on the floor. “It’s like having our own Mongolian action figure, with poop.”
We’re leaving for Seattle in a few hours — a taxi is scheduled to pick us up at 5:30 — and I am full of vague alarms and [...]
Monday was Hobbes’s 3 month birthday, not in calendar time, but in weeks passed. 12 weeks total, which while not technically three months, passes for it in baby time. I think. At any rate, my child has been growing by leaps and bounds, and we have already had to put away a few iterations of [...]
There is nothing quite like sitting in a private office at work, staring at sterile white walls while a mechanized pump squeezes breast milk out of you. There is something hauntingly mournful about the hiss and squelch of the motor and suction mechanism. It is not the most undignified part of becoming or being a [...]
Success came and then success went … and now we’re back on WordPress, imperfectly perfect.
So it goes. I can’t seem to get the RSS feeder working, but it’s not like I had a really clear grip on it in the other publisher either, so I won’t worry about it too much at the moment. [...]
Why yes, I did survive my first day back at work after a three month maternity leave, thank you for asking!
It was good to be back. It was also good to come home. The challenges and enjoyment of my job aside, how could I not be eager to come back to this?
It’s 4:13 AM and I’m wide awake. The baby is asleep, which makes this a particularly piquant bit of schadenfreude for those of you who are monitoring my sleep patterns post-child; having won tonight over his propensity for waking up every hour after midnight, I find that my mind and body have become attuned to [...]
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