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It's been a good Saturday, although a rather busy one. We had worthless errands to attend to--worthless because none of those errands actually achieved anything. You apparently need a receipt to return (unopened) Craftsman tools to Sears (where else could this thing possibly have come from?) and the bank was mysteriously unable to transfer funds from the Swedish account. Exchange rate is 7.195--good time for that sort of thing. I've been immensely productive, though, which is worth celebrating. I fairly well finished the MM site design and cleaned the little room. I've been putting that off since October, so not such a small undertaking. It was horrible.

M is watching The Red Green Show and I'm sitting with him to give him a little company. It's an odd little show. At the end of each episode, all these men are gathered at a hunting lodge, and they recite the Man's Prayer together, which always makes me laugh. "I'm a man, but I can change. If I have to. I guess."

Oh! I just found a bunch of files that I thought I had lost! So I'll leave you with a quotation ("quote" is a verb, you know.. *winks at stewlis) that I was really upset about losing. I saw it on my advisor's desk my freshman year of college, and it really struck a chord with me. I'm so guilty of this. I'll spare you the textual South Park art that I also found.

"I hate to see others suffer. I see that as a weakness in me because it probably indicates that I'm afraid their pain will recall all the pain that lives in me. So I have been guilty of trying to take everyone's tears away, stop crying and heal their wounds - prematurely. I wonder how many butterflies I've killed by tearing off their cocoons too soon and denying them the struggle that makes their wings strong enough to fly..."
--Margaret Wold