Very quick in-and-out at Pittsboro, and you can tell it’s a small town, because several of the people on the ballot are out front of the precinct shaking hands, and Kevin is on a first name basis with most of them. (I believe he picks his vote in local races based on who he would trust […]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
At 7 AM, an unholy hour I usually only visit long enough to open one eye, get smooched, and tell Kevin to have a good day and not to let the bastards get him down, I got up. It’s cold, and it’s pouring. The polls opened half an hour ago. We live in Pittsboro, a wee […]
At some point this weekend, it became full-on fall. I think I missed it. I know I was working in my studio at various points in the weekend, I know I went out, but for some reason this morning I looked out the studio window and went "WHOA! When did that happen?!" Everything’s going gold and orange and burgandy–still with green undertones, but […]
Random question, O font of all knowledge! What are the Japanese spirits with paper over their faces? They showed up in Spirited Away–the sheets of paper floated off the ferry, and grew robe-like bodies–and some of the monsters you fight in Okami have paper over their faces, but I’m apparently not hitting the right google searches to […]
So Kevin is, as I have mentioned in the past, very very active in his community. (Actually, he’s a bonafide community organizer, which meant that there was a certain degree of frothing rage in the recent past, but that’s neither here nor there.) And his community, headed by a Lutheran pastor (a nice guy, but way […]
So we got back from trick-or-treating last night, which was fairly painless, although not that long lasting. (Forty-five minutes! Pfff! In my day, in Arizona, we did two hours! Mind you, evening in Phoenix in October is rarely 40 degrees, so I can see the logic in knocking off early…) My costume, such as it was, consisted of throwing […]