Shannon Costello

It’s sort of hard for me to see Chicago’s failure to snag the 2016 Olympics as an Obama failure.  All four contending cities had governmental higher-ups on hand, including the King of Spain.  And it seems that South America has never hosted the Olympics before?  I think Americans’ perspective may be somewhat skewed.  Go Brazil!

1)  Two fully weeks of school = two full weeks of forgetting to take out the trash.  I’m afraid to look in the trash can to see what might be growing in there.  Maybe we should barricade the door to the garage just in case.
2)  There is, at this very moment, a LIVE giant cricket [...]

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties!
Here is a black spot for all of ye :

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Today thoughts of dying leaves, cold, late sunrises and early sunsets leave me feeling depressed.

I think it was a teen cricket in my bathroom early this morning- big enough to be intimidating, but obviously not full-grown.  I was, er, busy, so my range was restricted, but I did wad up an article of clothing and threw it at him as hard as I could- stunned him on the second [...]

Part of me wished I had live-blogged it, particularly when I spotted the teleprompters.
The noisy atmosphere was interesting.  I didn’t understand a lot of it.  At one point he was getting a chorus of groans (around the time he was talking about illegal immigrants NOT getting coverage), and I didn’t quite know why.  Another time [...]

I was standing by my car waiting for a running partner when I met Darrol. He asked if he could come over and talk to me. I figured the parking lot was a big exposed area, my friend in the produce department was in his car nearby, and Kelly was coming soon, so [...]

So we are hanging around town waiting for lunch.  We have seen the last patient and packed up all the consulting rooms.  All of our stuff is now organized in the ‘pharmacy’, which is a lot of stuff lined up in suitcases, bags, and small plastic tables so that all wall space is used.  I [...]