Liz, this one's for you: So I was noodling around in my bookmarks tonight, trying to find that hilarious Gore/Bush rapping Flash animation that was going around a while back, and I came across the pinnacle of all Flash animations. It's been way too long since I laughed this hard. Warning: Do not listen to this at work!

A Little Something About Change

A topic that's been on my mind a great deal of late, both my attraction and resistance to it. I don't know if I will ever thrive on change the way some folks do, but one result of getting ready for this move is that I'm beginning to make my peace with its inevitability. My life will change whether I leave or not, just in different ways. And I have to remember that my complaint a few years back was that life wasn't changing enough. I complained loudly and often about feeling stuck in a rut and unable to move. So it seems a bit pointless at this juncture to be loudly complaining the reverse. And the truth is, I am looking forward to the change. If it works out like so many other things in my life, I will dive right in once I'm up there and make the most of it, once it's really come and all the horrible anticipation is over.

All this is really a roundabout way of reflecting on another big change in my more distant future: I'm going to be an auntie! Not a family friend auntie or even a step-auntie, which I was already looking forward to, but a full-on, oh-my-god-my-brother-and-sister-in-law-are-having-a-baby auntie. I got the call just a couple of hours ago, and I haven't really processed it completely, so all I'll say for now is congratulations to Lee and Tanya! I can really hardly wait to get up to WA and see you now!