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Happy birthday, pantsie!

I wish I had more exciting things to say to you for your 30th birthday, but I worked a 12-hour day today and I must now pass out for my crazy day tomorrow (work from 8:30 to 6:45, meeting in Cambridge at 7:30 to who knows when, no scheduled time for lunch or dinner).

I hope today brought you nothing but good things!

Last night I got a chance to talk to a good friend of mine in high school that I hadn't talked to since I graduated 12 years ago. (I /really/ need to get better at that 'staying in touch' thing.) He used to be an executive at DreamWorks Animation and now has left that and gotten himself an agent to pursue a writing career. A movie that he created is supposed to come out in 2008. I am so proud of him!

Doing the 'what's been up since I saw you last' chat is really fun when the people have so many experiences! But it took a lot longer than, "Oh, you know, went to college, got married, work at a company." It was totally worth it!

I stayed up way too late on the phone and Smooch was asleep before I got to bed. She was warm and drowsy and mmm... I do loves me some sleepy Jen. But I'm exhausted after work and babysitting and then mega phonechatting. *snooze*

Wink and I have a playdate tentatively scheduled for when he's in town for Christmas. Color me psyched!

Also, the little girl I babysit for (and her moms) made me a birthday cake and a card. WHEE!!

Here's to another year of smooches with my one-and-only! 30 and 31 never looked so good!

There are so many thoughts swirling through my little noggin, yet I haven't the time to process them fully or really do anything with them. It's sad.

I'm glad the whole "conception crime" schtick in Indiana has been thrown out, for so many reasons not the least of which is that it would, of course, leave me the potential of being a criminal in Indiana. Not that I ever plan to set foot in Indiana, but hey, you never know. I've just never been one for breakin' the law. It's ludicrous that there is a group of people who believe that not only do they have the correct idea of what is the "ideal" parenting situation, but have the desire and power to try to legislate such a thing. That makes me sick. It's bad enough that we have a society have a preposterous idea that poor people don't deserve to have children, now society wants to legislate that only married, hetero folks with no criminal records do? Makes me sick.

I find it almost laughable that GWB would nominate his personal counsel for the SCOTUS. I say "almost" because, well, it's really not funny. Now it's one thing to nominate someone with no judicial experience (it's been done before, it will be done again, although usually said person at /least/ has held a post like attorney general or something other than president of a bar association)... but it's something else entirely to nominate someone who has been involved in cleaning up your record and taking care of personal business. I can understand GWB's desire to nominate someone so close to him, someone so firmly lodged in his pocket... but I just think she's a poor choice. Although, who knows? She could end up another David Souter, lefty in disguise! (Okay, that's not entirely true but a girl can dream.)

Science teachers somewhere in Pennsylvania (Dover?) are now required to read a statement acknowledging "other theories" (read: intelligent design) before teaching evolution. Dear god in heaven, MAKE THESE PEOPLE STOP ALREADY. Teach all the creationism you want in your frickin' church schools, CCDs, religion classes, and family home evenings. Let's leave science class for the testable things, okay?

My wish for Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah is peace. Heck, that's my wish for every frickin' holiday that exists. You would think that someone up there would LISTEN to me. Just once. Please?

I'll be 30 in 12 DAYS. How exciting is that??!? A new decade!