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Oh boy, you guys, oh boy. Spring has sprung, nature is bursting forth in full flower and beauty, gentle breezes play with your hair as you walk to your local CVS to ask for the umpteenth time if they have a new shipment of spring water in yet because your cats don't like boiled pond water and, come right down to it, neither do you. These are the days when the whole world calls you out into the glory of a new season! And so, my friends, I am once again wholly at the mercy of that old, irresistible compulsion. You got it:



It's Broadway Sim obsession time.

Look, guys, I can't explain why this thing eats my head periodically, okay? I don't know why I can go half a year at a time without even knowing where the CD is, and then all of a sudden something flicks over in my head and I spend three days grimly searching the Internet, subsisting on nothing but Diet Coke and a tub of old-fashioned pretzels, to see if maybe somebody has uploaded Bernadette Peters' hair yet. All I know is IT HAPPENS. And so pretty much all of that first paragraph is conjecture, because I have not been going out into the actual spring itself. I have been staring out the window at it in frustration every now and again while I try to figure out where I can get a giant bubble for Galinda.

( you know, I wouldn't post these things at all, except I know people actually read them. THEY DO! )

*I was able to eliminate dishwashing from my schedule because the state of Massachusetts told me I wasn't allowed to do it! OH PWN'D WEEKEND CHORES

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My wife is no big animal-rights activist, but one of the first times that I was in her apartment, I noticed that the tag attached to Basil's carrying case said, not "I belong to λ Lastname," but "I belong with λ Lastname." When I said I liked that and asked if that was the phrasing that progressive no-kill shelters suggested or something, she told me no, it just felt right to say it that way: he's a companion to her, not a thing for her to own. I'm no big animal-rights activist either, but I'm pretty sure I fell halfway in love with her right then, on our third date.