funny faces.

Fred "inanimate" stickers--waterproof peel and stick eyes and mouths for your stuff. Received them as birthday gift a couple of months ago, and just now beginning to make friends of surrounding inanimate objects. You could probably do similar damage with a sharpie, but there is something about stickers that is just. good. fun.

all is right.

Alberto and Dick indicted. Stevens no longer in Senate. Woke up to CNN news ticker and felt a little more right with the world.

21 weeks.

on travel.

Coming to the end of a week on the continent. My last, for a while. More tired than I'd like to admit. This week has been yet another opportunity to marvel at the new limitations of my pregnant body. Sleep--for which I have always had a particular talent--is becoming more difficult. My back aches more. Am still waiting for the alleged "glow."

Travel fairly productive, both workwise and as therapy. Place and perspective often go together.

Other things to report: Wine country is not as much fun when thou canst not sip. Have affirmed that room service, is indeed, in the list of the 10 best things ever. Wet hair in cold, continent weather? In the list of ten worst.

Woke up in San Francisco and so many shoes, waiting to be bought.

20 weeks.

we win.

Yes, Hawaii votes last. And yes, despite our illegal annexation to the continent, more than half of Americans think that Hawaii is a foreign county*. Yes, the election gets called practically before our polls close. AND despite the fact that we have just as many electoral votes as say, Vermont, no, there aren't many who bother to waste time or money wondering much about what Hawaii voters are thinking.

But let it be known that, in Hawaii? Last night? We voted for Obama by the highest margin of any state. He's our guy. That means that while YOU might love Obama, WE love him more. So there, continent.

*Statistic based on the fact that it, um, feels true, rather than actual fact.

equivalency

One thing that they do not have in Honolulu: corn dog stands. You know, where they sell you a batter-fried hot dog impaled on a stick? And fresh lemonade?

What you can get, however, is affectionately known as "the waffle dog." It is exactly, exactly, exactly what it sounds like.