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Traveling mercies for badgerbag , cindymonkey , and doppmonster as you take Seattle by storm! And the rest of you, especially those of you in Seattle: See them in action in the Can I Sit With You? Project!

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Regional Dialect Meme (from cindymonkey ) (Some of these are New Orleans terms; some I may have picked up from my mostly-Kentuckian family. Trying to trace such things back is one of the things I love about dialects and idioms.) What do you call: 1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks. Bayou 2. What the thing you push around the grocery store...

It seems these days most of what I do is sleep --> commute --> try to learn a billion things all at once and not freak out --> commute --> sleep I DID go up to Portland and had a really great experience teaching classes up there. If you wanna read about that it is on an ALT post. http://alt.com/blog/7/post_476850.html . Like there. It was fun. I wish John had been able ot come with me though. Being...

1. I am having a bit of a rough morning. Forgot my wallet and phone, had a pronounced dizzy spell when I sat down at my desk, misplaced an appointment, and so on. Pregnancy brain, I haz it. 2. As is my wont, I read several books over the weekend, thanks to flying and all. My favorite was Dahlia Season by Myriam Gurba, which I've been meaning to finish for a while now. cindymonkey , I still...

misterajc gets the kudoes for tales of derring do which cheered me up and made me feel happy that he would take the time to call and say "How are you?" & rightkindofme is getting nicepoints to let me pick over emotional bowls of peas with her while I sort out my poopies and cindymonkey was kind enough to let me dribble at the mouth FORlikeEVER today so thanks you guys...

This is what I did yesterday and I needed it. Afternoon drinking in the sun at Zeitgeist. Whoo-hoo! cindymonkey and I even played cribbage and crashed a b-day party. Now on to the cheese conference...

1. Vagabondage @ QOM = awesomeness. Vagabondage is sagahar plus cindymonkey plus an accordion. I think I am in love with accordions now. Or maybe just accordions played by women. With that strong rocking shoulder movement. Anyway. Even if you don't have a weakness for accordion shoulders, Vagabondage is good fun that you should check out when you get a chance. They're at vagabondageband...

cindymonkey 's band. Also know as the vagabondageband community....