Have you seen this video by Ron Howard? You have to watch it. Go now. I’ll wait right here.

It’s just the best video I’ve ever seen. Except my Halloween video from last year.

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?

-Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables

Well, who can be low for long, huh? It’s October! You know what that means…it’s time for my

Woo!
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Couple of weeks ago, I had a lovely birthday. Got this:

and I really, really love it. We took her out to a lovely state park two weekends in a row to get the tires muddy. On our second weekend, which involved a tent as well, we went on a fairly aggressive (for a newbie like me) trail, complete with big ruts and roots. And soon, I steered into a big root to avoid a big tree and ended up with a big ouch when Pinky Lee’s top tube whacked my leg with a Tonya Harding-like efficiency.

Ok, so my tibia doesn’t exactly look like this. X-rays showed no fracture but plenty of swelling of the soft tissues - and even without the fracture I’m in the sort of pain that a fracture might cause. No, it hurts more. I have some good narcotics that whack me out and ice packs which I apply several times a day. I can’t make it worse; I can only manage the pain until it gets better. Which I hope is really soon.

Because we’re going to Japan next Saturday.

Dogs. Paper. Driving. Poop bags. Typing. Notes. Leashes. beaglesbeaglesbeaglesBEAGLES.

Things are a little crazy for me. Not low-prices crazy, more like watching Snake Eyes twelve times and then digging through Gary Sinese’s garbage until he takes out a restraining order against you crazy.

oh, and I’m tired.
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So I’ve started writing my mammoth, colossal paper. It is totally intimidating, but completely fun, all at the same time. I referred to it here; it’s all about classroom films of the postwar era, specifically of the social hygiene sort. I just lurve these films. They are filled with antique furnishings, antique attitudes, and the occasional nugget of something close to wisdom. Very occasional.
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