email housekeeping

Hi all -- If you're not getting any email from me, it's not because I've not sent any.... Just because Mommy and your IMAP server are fighting doesn't mean we don't still love you. Remember, you can always reach me at Saltmine U.

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perhaps a distant cousin

when i saw the words, 'drunk, divorced, and covered in cat hair,' i was pretty sure i had found a kindred soul. but on further blogstalking reading, i think i might have discovered a distant cousin. surely, no one else could also be: an art director; living in a small house in LA; family is from the South; divorced and fending off spinsterhood; a knitter; has redneck neighbors who are addicts (to what exactly is a subject of debate); animals--dog and a cat (used to have two cats, until recently); also tend to say vastly inappropriate things at exactly the wrong time; a shared tendency to forget all about whatever is cooking in the kitchen.... this is just too eerie to not be some Southern family curse, applicable only to divorced women who knit (there are stranger curses in the South, let me tell you).

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pantagruel 4.0 is up!

after throwing up several designs that i just couldn't make up my mind on, i took a deep breath, and decided to follow Designer Law #47: if you can't make up your mind about using it, don't use it. so i went with something really simple, that's of a piece with the blog and the gallery, which are pretty much what i want the site to consist of.... and, very possibly, change the headers on the blog and gallery to match the perspective sketch on black.

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twitter

check out twitter -- i've installed it on my blog to have a place for all the small updates that don't really warrant full-blown posts. is anyone else using this service? if so, let me know!

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