random notes from a week

• Yesterday I started producing my very first Powerpoint (which should come with a little person who jumps out of your computer and answers your every question, of which there are MANY). I find to be very true what a friend of mine says: "Power corrupts; and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely." That thing is a black hole of time. But I'm having fun.
• I met with my doctor today for one last appointment before minor surgery next week (an outpatient deal I am thinking of as Baby Promoting Procedure). I'm not worried about it, but it will be nice to have it over with. Also, and happily, it will end the Summer of Birth Control, which is also known as Very Bizarre Experience for Someone Trying to Get Pregnant.
  
• Every year I think early September cannot possibly get more busy than this year. And every year I am wrong. And also tired.
• In yesterday's mail I found an advertisement from a local fundagelical church promoting its latest adult forum series: three classes entitled, in this order, "Porn and Pancakes," "Porn and Pastries," and "Porn and Parents." (These are also helpfully filed on their website under "XXX Church Events.") I'm all over churches talking about difficult, complicated issues. But this is just a little over the creepy line for me.
• It's amazing how a few days of solid, reliable sunshine really makes you feel good.
• Right now I have three baby sweaters to be knitting. I need to find a new pattern.
• If you are someone frustrated by the choice of Sarah Palin (even if you are, like me, someone who was never going to vote for McCain in the first place), you should most definitely read Anna Quindlen's take on the choice in this week's issue of Newsweek. I've read some good articles about Palin, but this one says it best. Well done, Anna.
  

Back to the PowerPoint. And the sermon, at some point.