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Feeling listy:

·         Missing Portland (this encompasses family, cool summers, roses in bloom, the campfire + wind + straw smell at the beach – which isn't Portland, but whatever).

·         Reading Half a Life by Darin Strauss.  This review from Entertainment Weekly hooked me (read: I recently went on a trip with a couple of friends, one of whom brought along Half a Life. The book is slender enough that the three of us devoured it in three days — and beautifully written enough that we spent the rest of the trip discussing it).

·         Addicted to Osama bin Laden news. 

·         We're slowly moving to a new house – Steve is making some repairs before we move in, so we're in two places right now.  Living in two places is not a good feeling.  At all.  My brain is way too delicate for such things.  Speaking of brains…

·         George accidentally whacked me in the nose with his hard little head last night.  I made silly crying sounds because I thought I really was going to cry.  And then he laughed at me.  So how can you cry when George is laughing?  You cannot.  But I will tell you: today my brain feels swollen. 

·         I'm starting a book club at the library.  I have this excited feeling about it, even though I might suck at facilitating it.  First up: My Antonia, next month.