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Yes, that was my letter from the IRS. I misfiled our tax extension. My husband, who is hilarious, wrote a letter to the IRS asking for clemency due to new-baby-induced Jello Brain. The IRS, who are apparently also hilarious, quoted him in their response. I scanned the letter and he put it on Facebook. It [...]
My young daughter is eating solid food. She has two lower teeth, which she uses to great effect, scraping away like a reverse-squirrel. This is an exciting time for my husband and I, since we get to share some of our favorite foods with her. We also get to see these favorite foods converted into [...]
Recently I’ve been importing the ancient Librarian Avengers archives to live within WordPress. Because the site goes back to…hrm… 1997, there’s some data munging to do. Right now I’m concerning myself with the period after Graduate School, when I moved to Ithaca, NY for an ostensibly-cool digital library fellowship. I couldn’t talk about how much [...]
Breastpumping My commute to work Taking a shower The three block walk to return my library books Sleeping Leaning on my similarly exhausted husband and staring vacantly at something on a screen **UPDATE** I just finished Tina Fey’s new book Bossypants and was put to shame by her fantastic list of “Me Time” activities. I [...]
I work in the video game industry, so I tend to think of life in these terms. For example, when I was pregnant with my daughter, I realized that pregnancy is essentially a really immersive resource-conservation RPG. I was always asking myself questions like: “Do I pick up this stuff on the floor, or do [...]
In case anyone is interested in the relative effects of a New Baby, I ran a few numbers this morning. -65% Cussing -50% Cups of Coffee Consumed -98% Cups of Coffee Consumed While Still Warm -98% Alcohol Consumed Before Childbirth +98% Alcohol Consumed After Childbirth +50% Loads of Laundry/Week +100% Loads of Laundry Involving Poo [...]
Reading has been a challenge lately, due to new baby and the delirium that accompanies around-the-clock breastfeeding. On the other hand, it has taken me three months to be able to comfortably leave the house, so I’ve had quite a bit of downtime. My favorite book that I’ve read lately is, appropriately, about raising happy [...]
I’m sitting at a cafe with my infant daughter. I feel like a monster of productivity, having successfully left the house twice in one day, eaten actual meals, and avoided being covered in poo (for the time being). Elizabeth is the daughter, three months old. She sleeps in the stroller I thought I would never [...]
My daughter, Elizabeth West Firment, was born in early November. The last…ever since…has been a nonstop, nonsleep blur of boobs, love, fuss, and delirium. In the process, I have learned these five things: Ceiling fans are TV for babies. At week six, nursing goes from being a special woodchipper for your nipples to something fairly [...]
This is my dad, the best joker in the world. Who else would dance to “Re: Your Brains” (Jonathan Coulton’s Zombie song) at his daughter’s wedding? My dad, the legally blind man who taught me to drive a stick shift. This is the guy who plopped me in front of a VIC-20 when I was [...]