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i'm in jersey this weekend babysitting my niece and nephew. i like them but i want another semi-wild weekend like last, and they're being so well behaved that this is either their style when their parents aren't around, or they're scared of me. they didn't want a story read to them, and they themselves suggested getting ready for bed. that ain't right.
today i took my niece to the pool since it was so nice outside and all we'd done in the morning was get through two cooking shows and the saturday times. it was closed for the season despite the awesome, perfect swimming weather. we went to the adjacent playground instead; she swinged while i sat on the bench, read lolita, and tried to ignore any disturbing misinterpretations of how all this would sound in an entry. i debated climbing the pool fence, but while i want my niece to grow up thinking "do what you want until someone complains," her parents want her to grow up thinking "law-abiding citizen," so relented.
now it's 10:18pm and all is quiet on the jersey front. i am surfing—the kind i haven't done in ages, where you check out your friends' blogs and actually click the links in their links pages/columns—and realizing how much fun it still is when you have the time and wherewithal to do it. this is what got lots of us excited about the web, right? that i can give you this this and this and you might be into it or something else linked off of it?
posted September 07, 2002 in delivery. 2001