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Came home yesterday to find that the window being put into my study, a job that was supposed to take the morning half of the day, was nowhere near done, my study a mess, the power off (if I haven't mentioned before, N&C have begun the reno process on their house). So I went off to get a pile of copies of the Austin Chronicle with the review of my book in it, and then to Savers to look for dresses for itch-free summer wear. (so sick of dresses, so. sick. but my stupid body won't let me wear pants of any kind very often)
The window was, hurrah, mostly done by the time I returned, power back on (and so the air-conditioning, gasp). I had promised to watch the kids so N&C could go out for a date to celebrate their 10th anniversary, which I did, more or less, feeding the short people and then putting on a movie for them (okay, I'm not the world's most lovable babysitter) so I could put my study back together and clean up all plaster dust.
The extra window really changes this room, which, when I am moved out, will become C's study/office; I will get to enjoy it for approximately two months.
This theory gakked from the Findings section (backpage) of the June 2004 Harper's:
An Austrian biologist theorized that the erosion of telomeres, highly repetitive DNA at the end of chromosomes, might function as a kind of internal clock that determines when a species will become extinct. Once a species' telomeres have sufficiently degenerated, the theory holds, individuals will begin to suffer an increase in cancers and immune disorders. Human telomeres, it was noted, are somewhat short.
The window was, hurrah, mostly done by the time I returned, power back on (and so the air-conditioning, gasp). I had promised to watch the kids so N&C could go out for a date to celebrate their 10th anniversary, which I did, more or less, feeding the short people and then putting on a movie for them (okay, I'm not the world's most lovable babysitter) so I could put my study back together and clean up all plaster dust.
The extra window really changes this room, which, when I am moved out, will become C's study/office; I will get to enjoy it for approximately two months.
This theory gakked from the Findings section (backpage) of the June 2004 Harper's:
An Austrian biologist theorized that the erosion of telomeres, highly repetitive DNA at the end of chromosomes, might function as a kind of internal clock that determines when a species will become extinct. Once a species' telomeres have sufficiently degenerated, the theory holds, individuals will begin to suffer an increase in cancers and immune disorders. Human telomeres, it was noted, are somewhat short.
