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  • My Obama

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    This morning when Simon woke me up at seven, I had the same feeling I did on the morning it snowed. I felt like I had to get out of bed or else I'd miss something.

    My descriptive powers elude me. And anyways, I spent most of the' [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 8:30pm EST
    by Sarah

  • New Year, Old Blog

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    It's obvious: I've given up on this blog.


    I thought I'd try to retire it in some sort of official way, but allowing it to peter out over time seemed somehow more appropriate--in keeping with the way the nation has handled New Orleans, post-Katrina.

    Part of me' [...]
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    Posted: January 05, 2009, 3:37pm EST
    by Sarah

  • Our New Garden and Other Fall Delights

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    First of all, I know I haven't written lately, and there's a good reason for it: work. Because I am a writing teacher, I spend a LOT of time responding to student writing. When school is in session, the notion of doing any other kind of writing seems both absurd [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2008, 12:56pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • "Blogging from the Classroom"

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    Here's an interesting piece on blogs by teachers. I don't know if I mentioned that my own blog was read by the parent of one of my summer students... I learned that she felt I had written inappropriately about her daughter from one of my colleagues. He'd had to' [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2008, 10:12am EDT
    by Sarah

  • When Tired Meets Mad

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    I have lots to write about and lots to say, but I'm exhausted. Spent the day loading and unloading debris from our renovation--debris the contractor should have disposed of but left in the name of preservation. Yeah, thanks for the mountain of termite-eaten hollow-board, dude.

    Anyways, I can't write [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 10:54pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • After We've Recovered from the Toxic Gumbo...

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    When I opened an email whose subject was "Electricity?" today, I realized I hadn't updated my blog since we'd been home. So here I go, back...

    The drive back to New Orleans seemed interminable, although it was uneventful in comparison with the one on the way out. I saw [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2008, 4:16pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Heading Home...

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    Here's another piece in the Times-Pic on the nightmarish evacuation and re-entry that some experienced, and yet another from WWL-TV on the concerns of our clown/mayor that residents may not leave (should we be asked to) in advance of Ike.

    We head home today. As we hug' [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2008, 7:41am EDT
    by Sarah

  • Preparing to Return to Our Home of Uncertainty...

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    Yesterday our good friend Adam called from Holy Cross. He was standing outside our house, where he confirmed the reports of several other friends: all is well. There were several cars on the street, and the drone of a generator provided the afternoon soundtrack. Mr. Taylor sent a hello to [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2008, 11:10am EDT
    by Sarah

  • The Evacuation Continues...

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    We are still here (living in my parents' basement in Atlanta). The cats are pissed. We are homesick and bored. And yet... none of this is as bad as sitting in a hot house with no power. We did that for many, many days after we returned from our Katrina' [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2008, 9:45pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • On Relief and Not Being Ready for "Re-Entry"

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    About five beers in, and after hearing at least a dozen erroneous references to "levee overtopping in the Lower Ninth Ward" by reporters on CNN, I cooked up some evacuation steaks, had a silent dinner with my family, and went to bed before nine-thirty. I slept for twelve hours, woke [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 10:54pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Water in the Industrial Canal

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    [www.wwltv.com]

    This video is taken at the Claiborne Avenue bridge, looking north. (The bridge you see that's down is the Florida Avenue bridge).

    We don't have a gate to protect the canal as they do at London Ave, 17th Street, Harvey, etc. When their gates go down, [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 10:11am EDT
    by Sarah

  • New Post from Fellow NOLA Blogger

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    Here: [liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com] [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 9:56am EDT
    by Sarah

  • Video of Water in the Industrial Canal

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    "The biggest problem we are having at the moment," according to Nagin, is here: [www.wwltv.com] [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 9:52am EDT
    by Sarah

  • Oh, no.

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    We live near here. The waterway that runs perpendicular to the Mississippi River is the Industrial Canal.

    I have just heard (on FOX 8 news, of all places) that the surge is overtopping the Industrial Canal levee walls. Evidently it's on the western side, which means folks' [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 9:20am EDT
    by Sarah

  • This Really IS Deja-Vu...

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    I didn't sleep but an hour or so. The cats were busy establishing their territory in my parents' basement. Simon is passed out. I have been watching TV with my dad, and I am relieved to learn that things don't seem as bad as had been predicted.

    But then' [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 9:13am EDT
    by Sarah

  • 14 Hours Later

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    It's 2:39 a.m. and we have just arrived in Atlanta after a fourteen hour trip (ordinarily I make the trip in seven hours). The four cats are prowling around in my parents' basement, smelling everything, poufing up. I am having a glass of red wine, although GAWD I wanted a [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 1:52am EDT
    by Sarah

  • Boarding up...

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    Our dear, dear neighbor Ariane Wiltse, and her friend Beau helped us board up the house this afternoon.

    This is our house, waiting for what our clown of a mayor has called "The Mother of All Storms." Tomorrow we [...]

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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 10:53pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • If You Are Panicking...

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    We have been getting a lot of calls today. It seems many of you want to hear our plans. The problem is that our plans may not coincide with yours.

    Yes, we are still waiting. Here's why:

    We have already missed the window of opportunity for leaving' [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 5:31pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Saturday Afternoon (Three Days Pre-Gustav)

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    I feel better when I am not watching television. I also feel better when I am not at the grocery store.

    We just returned from Rouse's on the lakefront. The store looked closed. Crews were putting corrugated metal on the windows, but one door was open. Inside people' [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 12:38pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • The Crazy Before the Storm: Or, Go, Go GO!"

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    Yesterday morning I got up early. I walked along the levee, where dragonflies divebombed crazily, aiming at nothing in particular, it seemed, as though drunk on the heat.
    Even before we moved to Holy Cross, I'd planned to take these morning walks on the levee. Having access to greenspace' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 10:10pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • When to Open a $70 Bottle of Wine

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    We have plywood.

    After he got out of school, Simon called from the Home Depot. I measured the windows and doors. An hour later he unloaded the wood while I made dinner and listened to WWOZ broadcasting from Denver, where the Democratic National Convention is in full-swing. On [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 10:22pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • And I'm supposed to TEACH through this worry?

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    Another Weather Underground blog entry (from a smart weather-guy type) reports this:

    "For those of us in the central Gulf Coast region, the long range forecast for Gustav is looking eerily like Katrina's track in 2005. The GFDL (the currently favored model as far as it's reliability) has" [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 12:35pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Plywood and Other Preparations

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    I wasn't here when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. I was in the bucolic mountains of Burlington, Vermont, at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. I'd gone to sort out my troubled relationship with writing, and for ten days I managed to be convinced by the intensity of the event, the' [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 10:26am EDT
    by Sarah

  • Why Did the Egret Cross the Road?

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    After two weeks of genuine vacationing, Simon and I returned home on Sunday evening. We had two cars instead of one this time, since we were transporting furniture we'd bought (or were given) in Atlanta. I drove my dad's old Subaru station wagon--with no A/C--and while the lack of air [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2008, 11:07am EDT
    by Sarah

  • Generally Speaking: or, Why I've Not Posted Lately

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    I have been meaning to post more pictures of our wonderful new house, but I haven't because a) I couldn't find the box with the new batteries (and I didn't want to spend money on more), b) I've been savoring every moment of free time (and blogging hasn't felt savory' [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 1:18pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • We're IN!

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    On the 11th of June, several of our dearest friends came to our house to brave a storm of cat hair and dust. We packed the U-Haul, and, in the midst of still-ongoing last-minute contractor repairs, moved in to our new home in Holy Cross.

    I thought I'd get [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 11:08am EDT
    by Sarah

  • As Promised: Happy Post with Pictures of Progress

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    Here they are: happy pictures of progress. The kitchen. Sink's in. Countertops are done (but covered in cardboard). IKEA uppers are installed. Walls are STILL not painted green. (We are getting the impression that they're trying to avoid/ignore that we asked for "Serengeti Plain" green. Will ask tomorrow, as this [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2008, 9:34pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Bring on the truck

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    I spent a lot of the end of this week on the phone--with insurers, with the contractor, with the power company, with the sewage and water board. I think I was choosing to ignore all the nitty-gritty details of moving, and now here they are, demanding to be taken care [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2008, 3:29pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Bad(ish) and Good Endings

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    After the agonizingly-long and sleepless, post-copper-theft weekend, I managed to get in touch with our insurance agent, who a) scolded me for thinking that our theft would be covered once we lived in our home before he b) LISTENED to me explain that we do NOT live in our copper-thefted [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 1:50pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • When a Cat-Lady Goes Dog...

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    It's been too long (again). Sometimes blogging feels a bit burdensome, actually, and I think it's partly because I don't know who my readers are (with the exception of my ever-faithful mother and a few friends), and most of my readers don't comment. I'm not guilt-tripping here. I'm just sayin'. [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2008, 4:02pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Oh, HELL Naw! ( Mom alert: explicit language!)

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    Ah, yes: the end of the semester. It's always such a heady time. Combative students are all of a sudden compliant and friendly, even. They ask for their grade sweetly, gently, apologetically, sensing (not irrationally) that one misstep now could send their C- plummeting south to "D" territory.

    But [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2008, 11:18pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Another Boring Report

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    It's a gorgeous day outside--crisp and sunny--but Simon and I are once again inside grading papers. The end, for me, is in sight. This week my students will take finals, which I'll likely spend next weekend grading. I'd wanted to go to Atlanta to see my nephew, who's growing up [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2008, 5:30pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • The Best Shower EVAAAAHHH!

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    I am not even going to pretend to write about meaningful stuff. I am up to my ears in schoolwork and grading, panicky (and panicking) students are knocking every hour on my office door, and I don't even want to get started on all of the stress that comes with [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 3:36pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • A Whole Flippin' Month... Gone!

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    It's hard for me to believe that it has been a month since I last wrote.

    And yet...

    When I think about the month that's gone by--and the month that's yet ahead, I wonder how the heck I ever find the time to write, at all.

    First [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • And the madness marches on...

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    This past week was one of the most difficult of my teaching career. Not only was I informed by my supervisor that several of my students have decided to take their displeasure for the poor grades they've earned (key word: earned), and for my positively ridiculous habit of enforcing published [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2008, 8:57pm EDT
    by Sarah

  • Welcome to the world, Double "D"!

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    Two things of note--both of which I only have time to mention briefly:

    1) I'm an aunt! My brother and his wife had their baby, Damien (sp?) Azad, on Februrary 29th. Yep--he's a leap year baby! Here he is in my brother's arms:
    2) Work on [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2008, 9:14am EST
    by Sarah

  • Cats and Dogs

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    Me and Ray--my loaf of bread.

    I am a cat person. Period. I have four cats, and I love them all (even Sammo, who doesn't appear to love me back.) I have always had cats. I've nursed them to health, through cases of feline AIDS [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2008, 4:32pm EST
    by Sarah

  • The highs and lows of this week's work...

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    I have a pile of essays staring me down, and so I really can't--or shouldn't--be blogging.

    But I feel as though I have been holed-up in my office for so long that blogging is more a release than a burden, right now. I told a friend and colleague of [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2008, 12:11pm EST
    by Sarah

  • Belated Mardi Gras Photo-Post

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    A lovely couple, we are.

    Here's the man who married us... along with some, uh, revelers. Simon and a coworker (who was a Minister of Fun in the Zulu parade.)
    Yes, that is my [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 5:27pm EST
    by Sarah

  • I can teach and I can gut, but I can't deal with City Hall.

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    I think I have said before that I have been too busy to maintain my blog. If I have, I feel like saying to my old self, "You? Busy? P-Shaw!"

    That's because I am forreal busier than I think I have EVER been. I [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2008, 2:57pm EST
    by Sarah

  • We Human Beings

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    Yesterday, as I was having my morning coffee and getting ready to head to work, I heard a whole lotta cacophony at the neighbor's house next door. Someone had jumped their fence and was banging on their walls, calling out our neighbor's name. The guy looked a little seedy, so [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2008, 3:42pm EST
    by Sarah

  • The Resolution I'm Sticking To (so far!)

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    There's one resolution I didn't list in my New Year's post that I have managed (10 days in) to stick to with aplomb. It's not to use ANY new shopping bags this year.

    Simon and I have always kept a pile of used Whole Foods [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2008, 12:56pm EST
    by Sarah

  • Vapid post on my day of consumption

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    I don't want to jinx myself, but I do believe that I have emerged on the "well" side of this snotty funk that's been dragging me down since the fourth day of Christmas.

    When we got back in townfrom our holiday in Atlanta, we went ahead and celebrated [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 5:24pm EST
    by Sarah

  • Here's to the New Year...

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    Because it's c-c-cold here in New Orleans, and because I've had a cold, I've not been relishing the first moments of 2008. In fact, I've been doing a whole lot of exactly what I'd resolved to do less of: watching TV. I've just turned off [...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2008, 2:38pm EST
    by Sarah

  • The First Casualty of This Holiday Season...

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    Yes, folks, the first casualty of this holiday season--for me, at least--is not just my trim waistline (which is, thanks to teacherly/New Orleans-y anxiety-whatnot, rather trim,)--but also my regular-ish maintenance of my blog.

    I did just post some pics from the HCNA party last week (see [www.helpholycross.org],) Mom, [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2007, 7:46pm EST
    by Sarah

  • Why couldn't I have been a MATH teacher (or something)?

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    If I were a math teacher (or a teacher of some subject involving Scantrons or multiple-choice tests), the end of the semester would be a much easier thing.

    But I am an English teacher, and so at the end of every semester, I amass a [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2007, 4:04pm EST
    by Sarah

  • The Debate on the Make It Right Houses

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    I've been reading some of the comments posted on nola.com in response to the prospective designs for the Make It Right houses.

    I feel conflicted about the houses.

    The poster that really gets it for me:

    Many of the designs presented here seem [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2007, 11:04am EST
    by Sarah

  • Making It Right (at our house and in the Lower 9)

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    I am oh-so proud to report that I have accomplished what I was afraid I'd never, ever accomplish: I've settled on a floorplan! As our historic consultant pointed out (during my long phase of obsessive floorplan-drawing), any shotgun house requires compromises in the floorplan, especially when you are trying to [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2007, 1:15pm EST
    by Sarah

  • We did it!

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    We bought a house!

    Yes, we are now the proud owners of an 1800 square foot shotgun double in Holy Cross. Two afternoons ago, we met the sellers at the attorney's office and signed the next thirty years of our lives away. I signed and signed and signed until [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2007, 2:50pm EST
    by Sarah

  • House Update

    When I dressed this morning, I chose gray wool slacks and a silk and Lycra fuchsia blouse under a black fitted corduroy blazer. I looked lovely and grown-up, and it was all for what was supposed to be our house-closing.

    ALAS! We have NOT closed, due to a [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2007, 10:07pm EST
    by Sarah
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