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Bads: Our landlords called to say that they'd be showing the apt at 11 AM tomorrow. This means, of course, that the apt needs to be clean. In most ways, this is no problem - our cleaning lady came yesterday, and I can keep things in order till tomorrow. But she doesn't clean our bedroom, because it's a disaster area that is desperately in need of several hours of sorting and many loads of laundry that we've kept putting off because it's Not Fun. So, guess what I'm doing today, when not working on my recalcitrant article and booking travel stuff for the NoCal trip?

Goods: OTOH, two packages arrived today. One was the Harry Potter Wii game, which I will let myself play at 6:30 today, after all the cleaning is done and Mac is asleep. The other was clothes from Chadwick's, which is having a massive clearance sale of fall and winter stuff, ladies. I got two dress skirts for $10 each, a nice tank top for $3, a new bathing suit for 15$, and new heels for $10. I was a bit nervous about buying shoes online; they wind up looking great but being a bit large, because they didn't have half sizes. Still, I suspect my feet will swell after planes anyhow, and better too large than too small. I had forgotten how much I hated 2-inch heels, but the new green dress really requires them, or I look like the footless wonder. So, a reward for hard work.

Weirds: Does it seem to anybody else like all the other 8 justices despise Kennedy? Conservative or liberal, they're all venting this week about his "hesitant" and "half-baked" rulings,