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11.30.2005
rebel alliance
when i went to pick carl up from daycare yesterday evening, his teacher smiled at me and shook her head bemusedly. "carl led a little insurrection today," she said.
"what?" i asked, confused. seems that miss tiffany was in the process of separating two children who had been somehow hurting each other (carl was not one of them) and was putting one of them in timeout, over by the low wall that divides the room in half. carl walks over while she is telling this child why he's in timeout, looks at her and says, "i'm in timeout, too." and then crosses his arms and sits down next to this other child. and then another of the kids comes up, says "i'm in timeout, too," and sits down next to carl. and another. and another. and another. until there's a line of children all along this wall, all in "timeout," all having followed our little protest organizer like the pied piper of hamelin.  we're so proud. 11.26.2005
riding home with the tree
 aka: reason 543 we love our pt cruiser! we were the third customers at the boy scout's lot this year. needless to say, a very eager boy scout was quite disqusted with 1) our faulty memory of what kind of tree we usually got and 2) our inability to tell him what it smelled like (we said pine, turns out the right answer was oranges) anyway, we chose our tree blindly since they had just come off the truck that morning and were very tightly pressed. but our scout gave us a fresh cut while his brother scouts chatted us up and carl loved all the action. he talked to and about the tree the whole way home. he sat in the 1/3 section of the back seat that we left in and the tree took up the rest of the car. next year: two cars or a luggage rack - yikes! 11.25.2005
sweet smell of success!
11.23.2005
white...thanksgiving?
11.22.2005
its a girl!
 this is a picture of nora june's arm, actually. i thought that was more appropriate! her head is not visible but is on the far left and the arm is curled up toward the left of the photo like she's showing her muscle! a tough girl, eh! all looks well, and healthy, which is always a relief. now to convince carl (who told the ultrasound tech that he had a baby brother in his heart) that he wants a baby sister. wish us luck! 11.19.2005
an apology
personal to troy smith:
i would like to retract every bad thing i've said, every snide remark and eye roll that's greeted your every move this season. sorry, dude. nice game. 11.16.2005
whoops.
washington post assistant managing editor bob woodward testified under oath monday in the cia leak case that a senior administration official told him about cia operative valerie plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.
in a more than two-hour deposition, woodward told special counsel patrick j. fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-june 2003 that plame worked as a cia analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement woodward released yesterday. fitzgerald interviewed woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on nov. 3 -- one week after vice president cheney's chief of staff, i. lewis "scooter" libby, was indicted in the investigation. citing a confidentiality agreement in which the source freed woodward to testify but would not allow him to discuss their conversations publicly, woodward and post editors refused to disclose the official's name or provide crucial details about the testimony. woodward did not share the information with washington post executive editor leonard downie jr. until last month, and the only post reporter whom woodward said he remembers telling in the summer of 2003 does not recall the conversation taking place. [more] ### here's why it's odd, from later on in the piece: woodward's testimony appears to change key elements in the chronology fitzgerald laid out in his investigation and announced when indicting libby three weeks ago. it would make the unnamed official -- not libby -- the first government employee to disclose plame's cia employment to a reporter. it would also make woodward, who has been publicly critical of the investigation, the first reporter known to have learned about plame from a government source. and it's apparently not rove, either -- so it's a whole new unnamed administration official. now, i love bob woodward's books, and have since i first read all the president's men years and years ago -- but i have to say that i think it's a little ironic that a guy who helped break open one of the biggest government conspiracy-and-coverup stories in american political history seems to have become ensnared in this one, and not necessarily in a good way. the next few days/weeks should be interesting... 11.14.2005
the long weekend closes
what a weekend!
(more pictures at the links above, obviously...) 11.13.2005
birthday thanks to all! carl's thrilled!
11.11.2005
at last... the return of my gingerbread latte!
happy birthday to carl!
11.10.2005
why all the fuss?
11.08.2005
actually carl voted
 no, i didn't leave voting up to my baby boy of course, he'll need to quit saying, "no mommy, not the news!" first, but i picked the candidates and issues, and he got to push the big green "vote" button at the end. he was pretty impressed with himself and told everyone, "i voted!" you can never teach that sense of civic pride too early, i suppose! so, unlike last november's debacle, today's experience was a perfect little neighborhood community center, with people riding up on bikes to vote, a nice walk through fall leaves, and my very enthused son. but i fear the results will be the same - an election night full of disappointments. heaven help ohio! - valerie i totally voted
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