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I received an envelope today with two photos of me inside... both from a few years ago, office Halloween. I think my fingers were thinner back then. I decline to comment on the rest of me. The best part though, is the clown red wig - - it's not afro, it's a nice little Louise Brooks cut, but it's that plastic red that i've always (not so secretly) wanted to dye my hair.

My Francey Pants mentioned wanting to be called AJ on her resume. Called to mind how envious I've always been of folks whose initials make suitable monikers. I've always wished my mom had given me a "reasonable" middle name like Claudette or Delanie (or Delano?). My daughter is an E.M. - - which she can rather respectably use if she's inclined to maintain her ambiguity without sounding like a poseur. J.M. just doesn't cut it. Pleh.

Florida weather is less than hospitable, which I find woeful.

I never managed to mow the lawn this week. I shall be returning to a meadow. I am considering telling all the neighbor folk that I was "letting it go to seed" but the yardener in me knows that you can't let it go to seed one week, and put down your Memorial Day fertilizer just two weeks behind - - you'll burn up all the babies. Who likes burnt baby grass? Nobody.

Probably we won't be getting merit increases this year. I'm hoping I can use that to lobby for a work from home day. Send a prayer...

I am deeply addicted to my Bare Minerals. For someone who ALWAYS has a blemish somewhere, this stuff is heaven sent.

Just got the bad news that the job i might have posted for is for a different group that we thought it might be, so I can't really post for it because i'd be working with all the wrong people. I got it at the best possible time, though, considering all the stuff going down between next week and the middle of June. I'm being grateful for unanswered prayers right now.

I'm taking my camera when I go. I will do my best to take photos that are worth posting.

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