Miriam on May 31st, 2009

Whose bright idea was it for me to not take my sleeping pill last night? Mine, of course. Because I was feeling like a wild little rebel, and I wanted to do something totally crazy, such as clean the kitchen and get my house in order on a motzaei Shabbat, and come down to a [...]

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Miriam on May 26th, 2009

(That’s for you, Mr. Pell Grant Women’s Day)
Here’s the YouTube I promised you, Uncle J. And for those of you who are not my uncle (lucky!), this video has nothing to do with my uncle, but it is darn hilarious, and you should totally watch it. It was a Purim spoof. An AWESOME Purim spoof. [...]

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Miriam on May 26th, 2009

Let’s say there’s a 14 month-old baby whose parents have just discovered that he has a fever. Which reaction would you expect?

“Oh, my poor little baby!”
“He has a FEVER!! Thank GOD!!”

Yeah.
Because we’re hoping – hoping – that the fever might, just might, explain his psycho-monster behavior over the past – um – year? [...]

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Miriam on May 25th, 2009

Look at this. It’s getting worse.

That’s YS, of course. You know, the one who already knows more about the Dead Sea Scrolls than her erstwhile graduate student mother? Graduate student, like, in the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Ok, she doesn’t know more about them than I do. Yet.)
Oh yes, and then there was what she said [...]

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Miriam on May 24th, 2009

Who has time to post on blogs? I’ve been a super-busy girl this last bunch of days. There’s the Boy, of course, as always, or Satan, as we (sometimes) call him, and then there was the Stomach Virus That Would Not End. (”Diarrhea can go on for a while,” saith the doctor. “If it goes [...]

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Miriam on May 14th, 2009

Or is it who needs whom more? I’ve never been able to get that one, and I probably never will.
Also, is it bad manners to correct my client’s spelling?
See, here’s what happened. I told my current writing gig that I need more money in order to make it worth all the time it takes my [...]

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Miriam on May 13th, 2009

Or for the weak-stomached, for that matter.
Oy.
My poor Boy. My poor, poor, baby Boy. It’s some sort of Big Bad Stomach Thing, and I’m assuming it’s the same Thing YS had over the weekend and R had last week, except the Boy has it a lot worse. The thing is, I thought he had it [...]

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Miriam on May 12th, 2009

So I have 256 comments waiting in the spam queue. 256. That’s a lot of comments. They seem to all come from different IP addresses, or I’d see about banning them. But I have to hand it to the authors of these comments. It has to take a lot of dedication, not to mention creativity, [...]

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Miriam on May 10th, 2009

Shabbos was the annual Sisterhood Mother’s Day kiddush, and sort-of-annual female guest speaker that we try to have on Mother’s Day in sort-of conjunction with a national program run through another organization, a program that celebrates women’s achievements in Torah learning. My job was to get the speaker. President Miriam’s job (not me) was… everything [...]

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