My first post was sixty-six words and one hyperlink. This post will be the same.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
the last post
Well here it is. I never thought I’d start a blog, and after two good years (Spring 2006 – Spring 2008) and some down time I’m officially closing shop. But while I'm leaving this domain, I'm not leaving the blogosphere. Visit me at my everyday mundane but more comfortable home at Wordpress!
My first post was sixty-six words and one hyperlink. This post will be the same.
My first post was sixty-six words and one hyperlink. This post will be the same.
Friday, January 23, 2009
It's a lemon!
Hi everyone! Since I don't write new posts anymore, it's worth re-posting an old fave. I first announced that we're having a baby on November 20, 2006. Over two years later, guess what? Another lemon. Sarah just started her second trimester this week.
I haven't decided the blog-a-bility of a second child, but in the meantime --- It's a Lemon!
Question: What do the following have in common?
Answer: They all correspond to the size our future baby!
Word is out: we're having a baby! Sarah is due May 20, and according to babycenter.com, my partner now has something inside of her "about the length of a lemon" from "head to bottom." The food analogies start at week five (sesame seed), and progress from there. After all the food analogies, we hope that the "something" is indeed a human being, and not a legume or - much worse - a crustacean.
We only found out at 7 or 8 weeks (variable, depending on who you ask). But according to Babycenter, soon after the pregnancy test, we found out when our future baby was already the size of a raspberry (see above). We're in our second trimester, at 14 weeks. It's been kind of hard not to blog about this, especially considering the blog's title, and the fact that this is just about all I've been thinking about every day in my life for the last month.
Sociology of food analogies?
Take a look at this progression of food comparisons of embroynic/fetal development. I suppose comparing your future child to food is just good for a quick visual. But in our heads, "baby" has been expanding and shrinking as the weeks (and foods) progress. First a raspberry, then back to just a kidney bean. Then it's a grape. Grapes seem larger than kidney beans, but aren't they smaller than raspberries? Or are these extra large beans and grapes? And what the hell size is a kumquat? I think the progression should go: kidney bean, grape, raspberry, kumquat. And surely something else comes before a fig. Those things are huge; or do they refer to the fruit itself, once we have cracked open the shell? And - um - jumbo shrimp? I'm not sure what to think of these food choices, but they are certainly much more fun than posting pictures of other people's fetuses.
All food-ing aside, we're super excited about our first child. Stay tuned, for this will definately stick as a weekly feature.
I haven't decided the blog-a-bility of a second child, but in the meantime --- It's a Lemon!
Question: What do the following have in common?
sesame seed-------- small lentil bean -------- raspberry
kidney bean --------- grape --------- kumquat
fig --------- lime --------- jumbo shrimp
lemon
Answer: They all correspond to the size our future baby!
Word is out: we're having a baby! Sarah is due May 20, and according to babycenter.com, my partner now has something inside of her "about the length of a lemon" from "head to bottom." The food analogies start at week five (sesame seed), and progress from there. After all the food analogies, we hope that the "something" is indeed a human being, and not a legume or - much worse - a crustacean.
We only found out at 7 or 8 weeks (variable, depending on who you ask). But according to Babycenter, soon after the pregnancy test, we found out when our future baby was already the size of a raspberry (see above). We're in our second trimester, at 14 weeks. It's been kind of hard not to blog about this, especially considering the blog's title, and the fact that this is just about all I've been thinking about every day in my life for the last month.
Sociology of food analogies?
Take a look at this progression of food comparisons of embroynic/fetal development. I suppose comparing your future child to food is just good for a quick visual. But in our heads, "baby" has been expanding and shrinking as the weeks (and foods) progress. First a raspberry, then back to just a kidney bean. Then it's a grape. Grapes seem larger than kidney beans, but aren't they smaller than raspberries? Or are these extra large beans and grapes? And what the hell size is a kumquat? I think the progression should go: kidney bean, grape, raspberry, kumquat. And surely something else comes before a fig. Those things are huge; or do they refer to the fruit itself, once we have cracked open the shell? And - um - jumbo shrimp? I'm not sure what to think of these food choices, but they are certainly much more fun than posting pictures of other people's fetuses.
All food-ing aside, we're super excited about our first child. Stay tuned, for this will definately stick as a weekly feature.
Monday, December 01, 2008
Same timezone yet somehow different
I'm traveling to Austin TX this week to learn more about our granting software. It's convenient that Austin is in the same time zone - only 1000 miles south of Chicago. That's one of the ways that Chicago is the same yet somehow different than Austin.
What to pack? Here are the next three days in Chicago:
Aaaaannnd, here's Austin:
I can't recall what I ever wore when it was 76 degrees! Oh yeah, the same thing but without a hat. Anyway, the snow is great but so will be my little Indian Summer this week.
What to pack? Here are the next three days in Chicago:
Aaaaannnd, here's Austin:
I can't recall what I ever wore when it was 76 degrees! Oh yeah, the same thing but without a hat. Anyway, the snow is great but so will be my little Indian Summer this week.
Friday, October 31, 2008
super fun fun office guy
So my boss' boss walks past my cubical today with another director and says, "Hey, there's Fun Marc!" and keeps walking.
[pause here for a kind of Jim-looks-up-at-the-camera moment]
It could be because I provided the entertainment at today's FUN lunch*. I took some pictures of people's coffee mugs, created a game board and held a contest about it. See the board here and here. I was also featured for the comic-relief segment of our staff meeting where - get this - we reviewed evacuation procedures. That's right, miraculous Fun Marc figured out how to make everyday safety precautions a good time. Well, I am a safety captain, so no one should second guess that one.
I'm really not very funny. If I ever try, I'm probably taking unconscious tips from situation comedies circa 1980s. There is no better place to learn textbook comedic timing than from Family Ties and Growing Pains. Today's TV is too fragmented or reality based for that stuff. I digress.
Fun Marc makes me think of Fun Bobby from Friends. I mean, Really?! I'm that fun in the office, so much so that you feel like your coffee might be spiked? And now my boss' boss is plotting with me how to make the Thanksgiving potluck super jam-packed with, you guessed it.
F U N.
Now that I look at it, sometimes at work I'd rather stick to the first two letters of that sentence.
Let's just remember that Fun Bobby really wasn't fun at all. Sort of depressing, actually. But, if coffee mugs and fire drills are where it's at, then invite me to your next party.
*Our administrative assistant says that writing FUN in the Outlook invite is what makes it so.
[pause here for a kind of Jim-looks-up-at-the-camera moment]
It could be because I provided the entertainment at today's FUN lunch*. I took some pictures of people's coffee mugs, created a game board and held a contest about it. See the board here and here. I was also featured for the comic-relief segment of our staff meeting where - get this - we reviewed evacuation procedures. That's right, miraculous Fun Marc figured out how to make everyday safety precautions a good time. Well, I am a safety captain, so no one should second guess that one.
I'm really not very funny. If I ever try, I'm probably taking unconscious tips from situation comedies circa 1980s. There is no better place to learn textbook comedic timing than from Family Ties and Growing Pains. Today's TV is too fragmented or reality based for that stuff. I digress.
Fun Marc makes me think of Fun Bobby from Friends. I mean, Really?! I'm that fun in the office, so much so that you feel like your coffee might be spiked? And now my boss' boss is plotting with me how to make the Thanksgiving potluck super jam-packed with, you guessed it.
F U N.
Now that I look at it, sometimes at work I'd rather stick to the first two letters of that sentence.
Let's just remember that Fun Bobby really wasn't fun at all. Sort of depressing, actually. But, if coffee mugs and fire drills are where it's at, then invite me to your next party.
*Our administrative assistant says that writing FUN in the Outlook invite is what makes it so.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
MoveOn gets out the vote: One step too far?
Hmmm, I get the point, but kind of disagree with the whole scare tactic thing. Anyone else receive this video? How did you feel? I feel like I'm not so interested in MoveOn just now.
UPDATE: Of course I could have a little fun with this. Imagine the church sign saying something like, All Gods children welcome, except Judas Iscariot.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Ahoy me hearties! It's a bottle o' messages!
Arrr, me found a treasure in Facebook! I changed me language settin to Pirate!
[extrarrr credit: click the "pirates" label and spy on every time i've blogged on pirates, arrrr]
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