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Anybody miss the first round (from, like, 2 days ago)? Comment with a random fact and I'll give you 5 questions.

I had a very vivid dream yesterday that saltcod and I were both going back to college (roommates, again?). Once that setting was established, there was berry-picking and then I started writing a paper (long-hand) on Persuasion - at which point I woke up. Mmmmm, berries.

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A year ago I witnessed a car accident (I seem to do that too often, really) - and a few weeks afterwards, talked to one of the insurance companies and gave a statement, blah blah. Yesterday I got a form from an(other?) insurance company dealing with their claim and could I fill out their form? Yeah, but... it's been a freaking year, people. At the time, I was a new mother and not sleeping and worrying lots about my baby never gaining weight and all that - I wasn't exactly high on brain power. I don't remember much beyond the very basic facts. It's ludicrous to expect otherwise, it seems to me. (How much would you remember of a not-very-traumatic accident/ event a year after it happened?)

Along the lines of accidents, we were out for a walk last night and did not see - only heard - the crash of a bicycle getting clipped by a passing car (we were facing the other way). galagan ran and got some paper napkins from a nearby gas station for her to clean her face with - the girl was very shaken up and just sitting on the pavement - she had a helmet but her chin and face looked rather scraped up. And say what you will about big cities and difficult traffic conditions (it was about 7 p.m. and traffic was heavy), but the emergency response team was there lightning fast. They were taking care of her - and we hadn't actually seen anything so we left. But I'm thinking a lot about that poor girl today.

The EK has been a little crabby and demanding lately - we are starting to enter the phase of repetition. She usually picks *my* least favorite book to repeat, of course. 'Tis Barnyard Banter - which I don't mind the first time, but drives me crazy several times in a row. After lunch, she was sitting on my lap on the couch for a story, and when it was done, she got down, as usual - and, not as usual, pitched forward and hit her face on the coffee table. There was much screaming and blood for *forever* (10 minutes?) but after the bleeding slowed we could see it was just a big gash in her lip. I fed her a snack, and popped her into bed for a nap (and she went right to sleep) - I suspect when she wakes up there will be smears of blood all over the sheets and she'll have one big fat lip.

So, ENOUGH ACCIDENTS EVERYBODY.

Dear Singer Boy,

I don't know if you just moved in, or just got a new guitar, or have only recently discovered that the doors to the balcony open, and there's a whole new world out there eagerly awaiting your music. But within the past few weeks, we've, um, noticed you. Boy howdy, have we ever.

Dude, you have one song. It has, approximately, three chords. I can't quite make out the words (blame the light breeze and the rustling leaves), but I could sing the whole fucking thing at this point.

You don't have a terrible voice - I didn't mind listening to the song the first couple of times. But over and over and over, every day? Gets a wee little bit tiresome.

Perhaps you have come to Los Angeles to hit it big in the music business. More power to you, bro. But, may I suggest that record companies *might* be looking for someone who has more than one song?

O-so-much love,

Us

I'm really posting this for galagan's benefit. All you need to know is that it's aimed at the people in the apartment above us.

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