by Mir | May 8, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Last summer, when we moved here, the drought was severe and our little neighborhood pond mostly a half-hearted mud puddle. It smelled of baked earth and rotting plants and after a visit or two to sort of scope out the area, we didn’t go back again. Why would we?...
by Mir | May 7, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Ottomatic For the People
Our pool is still a murky chasm of waste water. Oh, I know it’s only been a couple of days. It could take up to a week, everything we read told us. Maybe two! I was prepared to be patient about it, except that I’d forgotten something sort of important....
by Mir | May 6, 2008 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Contrary to what you might think about a woman who writes about her entire life on the internet, I’m a fairly private person. STOP LAUGHING. I know that seems a complete contradiction of terms and some of you are thinking that I’ve finally started drinking...
by Mir | May 5, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Ottomatic For the People, What do I do all day?
Yesterday Otto got a wild hair—and by “wild hair” I of course mean that he set out to do EXACTLY what he’d been telling me for two months he was going to do, but I was just sort of hoping ignoring him and practicing denial might stave off the...
by Mir | May 3, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Ottomatic For the People
Last night, I had my bi-annual dose of Being A Faculty Wife. Because Otto is a nice guy and also because he likes to entertain and perhaps ESPECIALLY because his department will reimburse him a whopping $8 per warm body (woo! let’s buy the name-brand soda!), we...
