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Baby Secrets

Mood: Amused
Music: Pixies

Baby Secrets whispers in your ear and tells you you're her best friend. Her whisper sounds like Satan speaking through an aluminum tube. She's the kind of doll that you don't want to be stuck alone in a room with. Steve and Leigh Anne pull Baby Secrets out at parties and everyone starts to feel a little bit creepy. Press the heart on her chest and she tells you she loves you.

On Sunday, I was sitting at the kitchen table doing homework when the phone rang. Shad came downstairs and said we had to go look out the front door. There she was, Baby Secrets, standing right in front of our house. We shut the door and slowly backed away. Shad left the room and returned with full disaster gear--goggles, big earphones, an apron, a tarp, and two rakes.

Our neighbors are in the front yard talking to a visitor. These neighbors are known to bring their livingroom furniture and Nintendo in the backyard on warm summer evenings. They light firecrackers from their front porch year round. My concern is that when you emerge from your home on a Sunday afternoon wearing full disaster gear to apprehend a talking doll who has suddenly shown up on your front step, you lose the right to talk about how weird your neighbors are.

You've got a blogger on your face

Mood: Melancholy
Music: Aimee Mann

So, I decided to deal with the loneliness & abandonment of law school by blogging. This blog won't have insightful or exciting commentary on pop culture (though many of the truly committed law students will even take Thursday nights off to catch the OC). I will, however, try to refrain from extensive commentary on the shade of the walls in the library (sort of a linen-looking off white).

Law school is a very solitary thing. My idea here is that you all can check up on me every now and again and see what's going on in my life...send me a comment...I'll comment back...it will be just like we're sitting over a cup of coffee like in the old days.

Only 2-1/2 years to go....*gulp***