Michael McDaniel’s Dawning Awareness

Our kids love running around in our bedroom. Their imaginations are just wild. Our closet is an elevator. The tub is a boat. They like jumping on the bed and wearing Bonnie’s shoes. They easily occupy themselves while we get showers in the morning.

This morning, as I escorted the girls from their room to ours, Sophie heard the shower running and exclaimed, “the shower is watering!”

I almost corrected her, but decided I couldn’t justify why the shower should be “going” or “running” instead of “watering.” Sometimes they improve on the language they learn.

Just got back from the opthamologist, so my eyes are numb and dilated. And burning slightly. Or maybe I’m just happy to see you.

Anyway, the news was good: I have perfect vision and there’s nothing wrong with my eyes.

And bad. I went because I’ve been having headaches behind my eyes. With my symptoms, it’s either eye strain or migraines. I’ve known enough people with migraines that I was hoping it was eye-related.

Writing in Vanity Fair, Carl Bernstein pens this whopper of a sentence/paragraph in response to the question of whether there is enough evidence against the President to justify a full Senate investigation of his activities:

Certainly enough to form a consensus around a national imperative: to learn what this president and his vice president knew and when they knew it; to determine what the Bush administration has done under the guise of national security; and to find out who did what, whether legal or illegal, unconstitutional or merely under the wire, in ignorance or incompetence or with good reason, while the administration barricaded itself behind the most Draconian secrecy and disingenuous information policies of the modern presidential era.

Wow. Every once in a while something comes along to hold up a mirror and show you how others see you. Jana blogged about this tool, which shows the most used words in an RSS feed, and boy am I boring. And suspiciously non-personal. None of the kids names show up here at all. Interesting food for thought.

UPDATE: Why doesn’t firefox show the image above? Safari has no trouble with it! D’oh! I had disabled images from foreign servers while testing something else. <whack self on forehead />