intention

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I made the mistake of picking up three big books at the library yesterday. I'm not a fast reader and I don't have lots of time for reading anyway.

One thing I've never understood is why pediatricians want babies off the bottle at 12 months.

I'm usually a rule follower. Just try to convince me it's OK to give a child just a bit more in that medicine dropper than the 4 ml dose I was instructed to dispense and you will see immediate concern in my face. 4 ml means 4 ml. Not 4.5 ml.

The City Paper’s Clint Brewer, in a piece on possible Democratic Gubernatorial candidates, declares, by omission, Rep. Lincoln Davis “politically inconsequential”:

By announcing her intention to run for governor so early, Kim McMillan is telling Bill Purcell to stay out of the contest. There's room for only one liberal candidate to go against Lincoln Davis in the Democratic primary, she's saying, and she's it.

For what its worth [not much at all], Sheryl Crow, who apparently lives on a farm outside of Nashville, has decided to back Barack Obama.

I wanted to write a post about stubble, about how I like to rub my fingers across a stubbly cheek and how I sometimes let the legs go a little longer between shavings than I should because I like the prickle and I was going to write an ode to how much I like the kind of raw reminder of kissing a stubbly faced man.