Category Archive for 'Kid the first'

We are not a codfish.

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Nicolaus is in love with Mary Poppins. Not the movie but the actual lady herself, Mary Poppins. It’s that bag. How does she do that? We only saw 20 minutes of the movie and my goodness he spent the rest of the evening pretending to pull large things out of very small containers. Every time [...]

Cultural sensitivity for 500

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

“Hey Mama? You know what would be SO funny? Like if you lived in one of those cultures where ladies have to keep their hair covered up or they get like arrested or in big, big trouble? It would be hilarious — if there was a lady you didn’t like? Or wanted to play a [...]

Portrait of an antiestablishment rabble rouser as a young man

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Nicolaus was annoyed that politicians weren’t being funny or interesting anymore. Obama shifted from Mr.Heyyyy look at me vote for me I’m cool! to Mr. Alright I have work to do. We watch the president’s speeches while Nicolaus rolls his eyes and gripes: “Why are we watching this? Where are the debates? Why can’t Obama [...]

Pointlessly forcing ourselves to be diurnal

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Written at 2 in the morning. Posted today because I fell asleep before clicking publish.
Well the early-waking mostly failed. I woke up at 8:30, then thirty minutes later fell back asleep until 10:00. At 10:30 I woke everyone else up. Sounds late but I’m not kidding, the schedule here is fucked. It was an early [...]

Or something FAR MORE SINISTER

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Oh or! And! Maybe! Instead of being all better by Saturday, he could be glassy eyed with a fever that laughs at our feeble generic Tylenol. The head to toe rash and the fever were disconcerting but the scariest symptom, the one that made us watch and worry and finally take him in to the [...]