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November 4, 2009

Election Day



At 7:30 this election morning, we walked to our local polling place in the elementary school, past the "Vote Aqui" signs, past the bake sale moms, the cellophaned chocolate chip Frisbees and into the voting area. The elderly near-sighted, hard-of-hearing, darling polling ladies found our names. We signed the right spaces, went into the booth and voted. I love yanking that riverboat-sized lever that registers my votes. We walked out. It took about five minutes.

Last year we went to vote at ...

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Published on November 04, 2009 01:56

October 30, 2009

If you could do an extreme sport and be really good at it immediately, what would you do? I might try that surf boarding with that big kite thingie.

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Published on October 30, 2009 01:50

October 28, 2009

Murders and Inquisitions

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Published on October 28, 2009 18:44

October 26, 2009

What are you planning to dress up as for Halloween? Pretend you are even if you never get around to it.

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Published on October 26, 2009 22:33

October 25, 2009

Sit on My Lapse

When people wonder to me about what I'll do without George Bush, I tell them that I'll always have the Pope. And of course, the Cheneys who are keeping America safe, but not from themselves. I could do a whole new ninety minute Pope show if it weren't so annoying to my never or now non-Catholic friends. We lapsed Catholics find ourselves endlessly interesting, but it is a special ring of hell for listeners.

From his dubious just-following holy orders deep past, to his more recent past as...

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Published on October 25, 2009 19:00

October 21, 2009

Cranked

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Published on October 21, 2009 23:46

Happy Birthday Sister

Today is my sister's birthday! I have two older brothers and a younger brother, and when I was young I begged my mother for a sister, or a dog. I got a sister. My sister begged my mother for a sister or a dog. She got a crazy beagle named Saint Louie Marie de Montfort, patron saint of something, little sisters maybe.

This morning I called her and did one of my hilarious [to me:] birthday rap songs. She listened and then busted me as only a little sister can. "You've been on the road...

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Published on October 21, 2009 18:44

October 19, 2009

I'm no match dot com, but what is the best way to fix friends up? I have about an 11% success rate. Okay 9%. 3%

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Published on October 19, 2009 16:26

October 14, 2009

Come On!

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October 12, 2009

What piece of clothing signals the arrival of fall for you? For me it's the first time I put on socks.

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Published on October 12, 2009 14:30

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