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My not-so-productive Sunday:

1. Got up earlier than I would have preferred. Oh well. Still got 8 hours of sleep.

2. Went outside (brrrr!) to brush the snow off my car so that the remnants would be melted off by the sun and so it wouldn’t partly melt and then refreeze on the car making it an upleasant mess tomorrow.

3. Didn’t go to church. Because it was canceled on account of snow. Four inches of snow. Wimps.

4. Read the church lessons missed since there was no church. Enoch fascinates me.

5. Watched Meet the Robinsons. I hadn’t seen it before. Good movie.

6. Finished a book. Fabulous book!

7. Garbage day tomorrow, so I cleaned out my fridge. There were a few things in that that were… frightening. And possibly sentient and hatching a plan to kill me in my sleep. So it’s good they’re now out by the curb and my door is locked.

8. Read some blogs. There’s one I’ve recently added to my reader: Capital Catholic. It’s the blog of a kid at GWU who is going to a different Catholic church in DC each Sunday. I’m greatly enjoying reading his posts. I think one reason I like it is because, if I were Catholic, this is exactly the sort of thing I would do.

9. A memory: When I was in first grade, my school had some sort of drawing contest about drawing your favorite animal. The best one in each grade won a silver dollar. I drew a camel. A camel wasn’t really my favorite animal; I didn’t have a favorite animal, but I liked camels, so it would do. I won. When the principal visited my class and presented me with the silver dollar in front of everyone, he held up my picture. He asked me what it was a picture of, and I could totally tell he had absolutely no idea, that my drawing was indecipherable to him. I was so offended. “Why would he pick it as the winner if he couldn’t even tell what it was?!” I thought. Nevertheless, I answered him and gratefully took the silver dollar. I think I spent it on candy at Woolworth’s. To this day I wonder why mine was selected since it was clearly a poor representation of a camel. Maybe every first grader’s picture was equally indecipherable.

10. Over the past couple of years, camels have become one of my favorite animals. I also have a thing for octopuses/octopi/octopodes.