bits

some things:
1. eight days until baby's born. can't wait! he's "dropped," which means that he's moving into position to be born. i can breathe better without him wedged up against my lungs. it's good.

2. just ate a cara cara orange from australia by way of whole foods. might go for another one. yum.

3. speaking of fruit, wouldn't it be fun to go to the orchard today?

4. andrew and i have a long history of diverging opinions on fiction. we do all right with non-fiction, but we NEVER want to read the same novels. until we found michael chabon. now we have one fiction writer in common. we. both. like. chabon. a miracle.

5. i asked ben what sport he wanted to play when he was bigger, and he said, "tennis." i asked him, "singles or doubles?" he said, "singles."

6. what's with all the spiders? i'm going to try a hedgeapple to discourage them. brooke's idea.

7. along with everybody, i'm reading and loving julia child's my life in france. she seriously overrates france (in my opinion, although she implies that if one doesn't love the french, one has only one's self to blame, so maybe it's just me), and her passionate commitment to french cooking is a shade exhausting (again, might be my problem). but the energy, the joie, the rich descriptions of a satisfied life are most nurturing to read. and all right, she does make me want to run off to provence for the weekend. who wouldn't?