Monthly Archives: November 2006

Flotsam / Jetsam

Friends

1. We had dinner last weekend with some very nice people who had a six-month-old daughter. I was a little worried about how Poppy would relate to the baby; she hasn’t had all that much experience with children smaller than herself. But she was so sweet and gentle and careful. It was lovely.

2. Some of our Missouri friends are here for a visit this weekend. So we’re actually going to go out again and do things today!

Reading

"The Keep"

I finished “The Keep” this morning while Poppy was watching “Sesame Street” (and, really, I should’ve been cleaning something). It’s a crazy, breathless story that left a lot of things unanswered, things I was sure were going to be the crux of the whole story. It left me feeling a little disjointed. But I liked it, and I’m adding it to my “recommended” list.

Bandwagons

Friday Feast No. 118

Appetizer
Do you believe there is intelligent life on other planets?

    No. Not without Fox Mulder around to convince me otherwise.

Soup
What is one thing you said you’d never do, but you eventually did?

    I always said I’d never let my children watch “too much” television. I’ve found that “too much” is a pretty amorphous term. Most days, Pi watches “Sesame Street” in the morning and a video with Rockford after he gets home from work. Under my pre-parenting definition, that would have been “too much.” These days, it’s just right.

Salad
Who is the teacher that influenced you the most in school?

    Her name escapes me right now, but it was my fifth-grade teacher. She forced me to memorize the multiplication tables. I think it was the first time I actually applied myself.

Main Course
If you could trade places with anyone for one day, who would it be and why?

    Oprah, but only on her day off.

Dessert
What is your favorite dish to prepare?

    Ice cream sundaes.

The Friday Feast is a weekly meme intended to “feed your mind by asking thought-provoking, mind-stimulating questions.”