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One week later, and I'm still sick. Haven't been this sick in a while. At least the kids didn't get it concurrently. Luke said, day before yesterday, that he had a sore throat, but nothing more from him yet.

I wonder if this thing is sweeping the country. rivka and her family on the east coast, me in the upper midwest, and kightp on the west coast -- the symptoms sound the same.

Today, we're having a party for Luke at McDonald's, and then we bring in the tree and decorate it tonight. At least I'm functional, if tired and snotty...

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she brushed her hair and braided it,
that wild hair, she wound it round and
round in a plait and tied it tight.
but, of course, it wouldn't lay still.
it really was quite stupid hair.
she railed against it and beat it,
begged it to listen to reason,
or at least have the decency
to be embarrassed by itself.
it only curled around her ear
or stuck up sideways in the back.
so, finally, sick of it all,
tired and disgusted, she cut it,
but it just grew back, no wiser.