Category: As If You Asked
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Of Course
So Phoenix has an excessive heat warning in effect until Wednesday. What am I doing? Moving, of course.
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The Sound of Hearing
Note: this is a very personal post, so if you don’t want to know and don’t care, run. Run far, far away. Those of you who are long-time readers may have noticed me mention, here and there, that I am rawther deaf. I have otosclerosis, which, in a nutshell, means I’ve been losing my hearing…
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Too Good
The librarians at the Arizona State Library are absolutely awesome. They find obscure government publications, explain what court briefs are saying, and kindly remind me of reference tools they already showed me how to use. I fully intend to bake them something when my job ends. However, I may have to ask them to stop…
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Found Dog
Querido and I found this little guy wandering onto 7th Avenue yesterday. We stopped, herded him out of harm’s way (with help from an undercover cop) and got him into the car (with help from a jogger with some string in his pocket). No collar, no chip (as we later learned). Trying to find a…
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Need More Knitting Time?
Get a stapedectomy. This ingenious operation will leave you flat on your back, with all the normal dexterity in your upper limbs, alert enough to follow an intermediate-level knitting pattern, and has the added bonus of preventing further ossification of the bones in your ear, thereby improving your hearing! The strong of stomach can view…
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So Close!
And this weekend I’ll be far away. Santa Monica, to be exact. I *love* traveling to California. Firstly, it’s usually a roadtrip, which gives me hours of scenery watching, knitting–whatever. Secondly, our California trips are usually undertaken at transistional points in the year. At semester’s end, they’re a celebration of freedom. At semester’s start, they’re…
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