Posts Tagged "family"

Thomas the Talented Employed Fellow

Posted by on Aug 19, 2008 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

Thomas the Talented Employed Fellow

Meet Thomas. Today, Thomas walked into an office for his very first job interview. Today, Thomas filled out his very first job appli­ca­tion (in Spanish, no less). Today, Thomas got his first pro­fes­sional job: teacher of English grammar. In short, Thomas rocks. I have bril­liant...

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Notes

Posted by on Oct 14, 2004 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

a) knit­ting is almost as good a dis­trac­tion as pulpy read­ing. b) when read­ing intro­duc­tory book­let on how to knit, do not trust them when they say “use a knot­ted bulky weight yarn!” They lie. This yarn has extra loops that are tricksy and cause the loss of many a row. c) book report is still not done. want to sleep. d) fam­i­lies should not come a day early dur­ing midterms week. e) it’s nice that I get an extra day with them. f) too bad I’ll be in school that entire day. g) my blue wall is fab­u­lous. h) when my par­ents are in town, I seem to get sud­denly...

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Parents

Posted by on Sep 16, 2004 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

I am extra­or­di­nar­ily grate­ful that after con­ver­sa­tions with my par­ents I con­sis­tently think “I love my daddy/mommy.”

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