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Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

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rae recommends:

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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The Coming Revolution Against
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"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
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Larry Johnson's review

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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)

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by Timothy Egan

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Brokeback Mountain
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Froggy Bottom Cafe -- Wednesday (early) | 86 comments (86 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

what a great excuse (4.00 / 4)

to not go to work -- can't go nekkid, now can you.

Don't worry about waking her up -- she's a kid, she'll be back asleep in three seconds flat and if she isn't, she'll just take a nap later.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier -- Jeannette Rankin

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 08:45:24 AM EST
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Re: what a great excuse (4.00 / 4)

Well, that's all part of the dithering see? I hate talking to people in the morning. It's all about me. And my need for silence.

Eat 4 Today: Just today I'm not going to take seconds & not eating between meals

by katiebird (katieremovebird@everestkc.net) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 08:47:27 AM EST
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Re: what a great excuse (4.00 / 4)

Jim's just like that. I've had 34 years of almost no talking in the morning and I see it as a plus -- I can ignore him and not even have to feel bad about it.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier -- Jeannette Rankin

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 08:56:55 AM EST
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Re: what a great excuse (4.00 / 4)

mister & I have a rule. Whoever has to go to work first gets the house to themselves for at least some period (sometimes there has to be an overlap).

One of the things that drove me wacky when our son came back to live after graduation was that he didn't respect that rule. I'd often get up to find him watching TV in the living room. In my head I'd be screaming GET OUT OF HERE! But, he, not knowing the rule would just as nice as can be make casual chit-chat. How can you yell at a boy like that?

Ah, well.

Off-to-work time.

Eat 4 Today: Just today I'm not going to take seconds & not eating between meals

by katiebird (katieremovebird@everestkc.net) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 09:05:13 AM EST
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Oh, yes... (4.00 / 5)

The worst part about the spouse's current schedule is that to get my "quiet time", I have to stay in bed till right before he leaves -- otherwise he's talking at me.

[Family definition:
Talking at -- someone is talking but the other person is not disposed to listen, either because he/she is busy reading/working/watching TV, is trying to wake up, or is falling asleep but not willing to get his/her ass to bed.]

That gets my day to a later start than preferred; he seems to be dithering about going back to the transit doctor to get things checked again; not sure if he's waiting till after the holidays, or if I'm going to have to be firm with that boy...

I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised People all over this world are getting organized -- Wilco

by Cali Scribe on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 12:14:18 PM EST
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Re: Oh, yes... (none / 0)

I didn't see this until just now!

I know just what you mean about hanging out in bed wanting to get going for the day.

Eat 4 Today: Just today I'm not going to take seconds & not eating between meals

by katiebird (katieremovebird@everestkc.net) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 08:37:14 PM EST
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Re: what a great excuse (4.00 / 4)

Oh I hear you. I really like complete quiet in the morning. When I was in my early twenties and I wanted to move into my own apartment I couldn't afford it. So I needed a roommate. A friend of a friend of mine and I decided to meet to see if we would be compatable sharing space. I was completely upfront about my need to NOT be talked to in the morning. She was ok with that. We were great roommates (she tells me I was a better roommate than her husband is now). About three months after we moved into our apartment we evaluated things and decided they were working great. But she said she had been on pins and needles the first few mornings (repeating over and over to herself -- do not talk, do not talk.)

by maryb2004 on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 12:39:56 PM EST
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Re: what a great excuse (4.00 / 3)

I can't use that excuse--I work at home, so I can work nekkid if I want to. It would be a rather silly idea, though, given that there are fully-clawed cats lurking about. I do, however, work in jammies and fuzzy slippers on a regular basis.

I don't get snow days either. A couple years back when Denver got absolutely clobbered by a snowstorm, I think I was the only person in town who still had to work.

"As a woman, I have no country. . . . As a woman, my country is the whole world." --Virginia Woolf

by Raging Hippie (raginghippie at comcast dot net) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 03:53:27 PM EST
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Re: what a great excuse (4.00 / 3)

I work at home, too. I've emailed my boss a couple of times and tried "I'm snowed in. I can't get to work." It was actually true once when I couldn't get to the airport. My boss takes very good care of me, though and always reminds of company holidays (I tend to forget about the minor ones) and tells me whenever they let people go home early to start holidays.

I don't know why but I don't like working in pj's. I've been working at home for 16 years and I probably haven't worked that way more than a handful of times.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier -- Jeannette Rankin

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 04:36:15 PM EST
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Andi that is very troubling (4.00 / 4)

In today's modern and challenging business environment, pajamas, preferably adorned with a splatter or two of mustard or chutney, are the standard of professional business attire for home workers and bloggers.

Surely you can put out a little extra effort (and condiments) to bring your personal attire in line with your colleagues.

one man's conspiracy is another man's business plan
Blog updated as needed

by DuctapeFatwa (DuctapeFatwa@yahoo.com) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 05:28:10 PM EST
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it's not as troubling (4.00 / 3)

as you might think -- the condition of most of the t-shirts I wear while working would more than meet your splatter requirements with the added feature of that many of them are quite stylishly dingy.

And year-round, I am either barefoot or wearing sandals.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier -- Jeannette Rankin

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 06:25:11 PM EST
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Re: what a great excuse (4.00 / 2)

Nooooo! :{)

Peace

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Wed Dec 28th, 2005 at 05:44:43 PM EST
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