How do I know we’re close to the Pentagon? Agents have been surreptitiously checking out our apartment all the time. I hope this is not Nicki.
From the blogs:
- What types of plotlines in books do you tend to avoid, asks Hannah
- Scary Azeri wonders what the deal is with the Western view of depression
- Hadassah on tangible things as gateways to memories (the key reason I’ve been having trouble trashing stuff)
- Emily on how sad it is to let go of childhood
From the internet:
- The marriage question, this time by Megan McArdle
- Ethnological dress of my people drawings-really cute
- Why vanity keeps women poor
- Google Maps, re purposed
- Heavy metal in Morocco
- Blogs about professions -this is a really cool idea

I always love Friday links. And it’s definitely not Nicki. Nicki is a dignified tabby, I don’t know what THAT is.
It’s a government-issue standard cat.
Oh Vicki, thank you so much for this! You are most kind. I suppose Real is as Real does, or something. Thank you.
(And shabbat shalom in your new place! Make sure to make sheyehiyanu!)
You’re most welcome. Shavua tov! (although it’s probably a bit too late for that