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HI!!!!

wow! what a crazy bad night at work i had!!!!!! awesome!!! by the end of it, me and Courtney were pretty much pulling out our hair and gouging our eyeballs out with spoons!!!!!!

oh it did not go well.

but! the 9 month old baby girl just started crawling this week and that has been very exciting. i walked into work the other day and her mother came running up to me and said,

RESIDENT 1: You have to see [baby]'s new trick!!!
JULIE: Okay!!!

so, we all gathered around in the living room; me, Courtney, baby's mother and baby's older sister. her mom positioned her on her hands and knees and......OFF SHE WENT!!!! she was crawling!!! it was the best!!

and then afterwards, she curled her legs under so she was sitting up and so i said,

JULIE: (clapping) Yay [baby]!!!!
EVERYONE ELSE: (clapping) Yay [baby]!!!!!

and then the baby looked up with the biggest smile and started clapping too. sometimes, it just doesn't get any better. it was so exciting. and it was totally like she knew she had accomplished something big. and even she was so proud of herself.

her older sister loves it. they had a crawling race across the living room tonight. oh, they are so much fun.

anyways.

i also rocked the newborn to sleep tonight. he was being fussy so his mother called me down to her room. it was like midnight-ish. and i told her i would get him to sleep so she could go back to sleep. so, i took him to the rocking chair and rocked with him. that was also the best. because, i had him so his head was resting on my shoulder. and his little arm was around my arm, like we were giving each other a hug. and he was sucking on his little pacifier. he fell asleep in like, 10 minutes. but, i rocked him for like, 30. he was so warm and soft and i just didn't want to put him down. he is so beautiful.

let's see.

oh! so, 4.5 more hours and then i get a mini-vaca. meaning, i still have to work. but, i don't have to get up with the baby because him and his mom are going home for the weekend!

it's kind of depressing when my idea of a vacation is working, just not as much. hmm. i read my horoscope today and it said, "all this working is getting in the way of your social life!" and i was like, "social life?" and then i thought, "they must mean spending time with Ruby Tuesday." she's pretty much the only person i hang out with outside of work. actually, not even 'pretty much the only person,' 'THE only person.' and Julie, hate to break it to you, but she's a cat.


oh! i can tell you about my dream last night. it's going to be very quick.

so, i had a dream that i was talking to someone and they had their back to me. and then they turned around and their whole face was covered with the chicken pox!!!!! weird and creepy, right!? let's find out what it means!!!!!

hm, chicken pox isn't in the dream dictionary that i use. i'll google it??

hm. all i found were dreams of people who dreamt they had the chicken pox and then they got them. uh oh. i hope i don't get them. although, that would be the icing!!

Ruby Tuesday has been waking me up right around 11am again like she had been doing a while ago. she gets really close to my face and licks it until i wake up. which i don't like because

1. she wakes me up
and
2. i get little hives

so that sucks. i can't tell if she's hungry. one morning she just wanted me to lift up the covers so she could climb under them. she's a cutie.


oh! wanna hear something totally exciting and really awesome??? you do?!?!? GREAT! so, my great friend David who i used to live with in MOD 61 has just become EVEN MORE FAMOUS than he already was.

one of his beautiful works of art was featured in....(wait for it)........the new york times!!!!!

yes folks, the new york times. the big time. so, David frequently will make beautiful posters for the Science and Religion group at Hampshire College and this time they asked him to make a poster for this two day conference they were having, Darwin and Evolution in the Muslim World.

and this beautiful drawing he did ended up on t-shirts and everything!! it's great. David is great.

and also exciting! my former Div 2 member Salman is interviewed in the NYT article!!!! he organizes all the Science and Religion events, including this big one.

so, it's all very exciting. David. Salman. NYT. celebs!

i was just thinking about the time where Salman and Nell, my div 2 chair, met for the first time. MAN i was so nervous. like a couple whose parents are meeting for the first time. it was like, "oh no what if they hate eachother? what if they don't get along?!" it was scary. but, it went well.

i had the best Div 2 committee. and the best Div 3 committee. i wore my Hampshire College sweatshirt today. one of the girls was like,

RESIDENT: New Hampshire College?
JULIE: No, Hampshire College.
RESIDENT: Ampshire College?
JULIE: No, HHHampshire College.
RESIDENT: Oh. What's that say at the bottom?
JULIE: Non Satis Scire. It means, 'To Know Is Not Enough.'
RESIDENT: (blank expression)
JULIE: It was kind of like, the motto...
RESIDENT: .....oh. What's that....1970? Is that when you were there?
JULIE: Umm....nooo.... That's when the school opened.
RESIDENT: Oh.

discussions of Hampshire College bring about much confusion. but, did she really think i went to college in 1970?? come on.

reminds me of the time in my tap class when Julia and i tried to explain to everyone that Hampshire doesn't have grades. and one Mount Holyoke girl said something like, "oh, that's cool. we didn't have grades in my kindergarten."

anyways. this baby is fussy tonight. he doesn't want to sleep for very long. i'm headed to bed right now. currently 4:34am. friday morning. hey, it's friday!

yesterday was the 5th. anyone celebrate? remember remember the fifth of november.

oh hey! i wanted to shout out to Morgan and Laura! both of whom i haven't talked to in a very long time, but was super happy to hear from. i hope you are reading this now!

Morgan and Laura are two of my facebook readers!!! wow, i have known Laura pretty much since forever. like....1st grade? and kara is great friends with laura's sister Mary! and i've known Morgan since we appeared together in a production of Annie at Hackmatack Playhouse!!! i think that was between 6th and 7th grade. wow, that was a long time ago.

anyone else reading this from facebook? if you are, you should make yourself known!!! you'll get an awesome shout out!!!

i know a while back, Kati unveiled herself as a facebook reader. did i shout out to her? i think i did on facebook. but, welcome kati! welcome morgan! welcome laura! so happy you guys are reading and enjoying.

and i would welcome you to check out the actual blog! the people who read the blog are awesome too. and! there's an awesome search feature, an email address, and a cool picture of me wearing avaitor sunglasses.

anyways. i'm happy to know that friends are reading.

ok. now it's almost 5am. how did it get so late??? why am i not asleep?!?! sometimes it bothers me that i have absolutely no sense of time.

one of the residents here always laughs at me because she says that everytime she looks at me, i look like i am totally in my own world. and i don't disagree with that. my own world is better than the real one. so, there.

ok. i'm getting wheezy. and i need to put in my eye drops. that means it's time for bed. and the baby will probably want to eat again in like, 20 minutes. or, 30. awesome.

ok or realz!!! this is the last time i am ending this. return of the king style.

goodnight! good morning! good afternoon!!!! good day!!!! wherever you are, whatever you are doing, i hope you are having a good time. GOOD.

i'll talk to you later.


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