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Entries from July 2005

Reading update

July 19th, 2005 · 3 Comments

Guess what I’m not reading? Harry freakin’ Potter. I will eventually, but a) I don’t feel like I need to own it, and b) it’s a fall/winter book. I plan to wait until I can actually get a copy at the library and then curl up and let it take over November, [...]

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Crossing the line

July 18th, 2005 · 3 Comments

Last week I saw Me and You and Everyone We Know with JH. Excellent movie, by the way, despite (or perhaps because of) lots of discussion of poop. But what it really made me notice is how, sometime in the last few years, I crossed that crucial line between identifying more with kids [...]

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