So, here's a rundown on the stellar awesomeness of some of my friends in the blogosphere:

Becky saw Duran Duran in concert whilst in the midst of a multi-day business meeting, and blogged about it on her cell phone.

Anne is finishing her poetry book and it's getting published by a university press.

Fringes is getting married in Vegas sometime before the end of the year, and announced it in a blog post that hearkens back to the pre-Civil-Rights movement.

Ms. Strega has been tapped to teach creative writing this summer at my alma mater.

Monstro is getting up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to go teach so we can buy groceries.

And, the Comtesse might be giving birth even as I type this.

As for me, I took the boy on a play date this morning and scored a free double stroller. Not as cool as my friends, maybe, but it's something. Oh, and this is my five hundredth post on this blog. Do I get a cookie?

“Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.”

Woo hoo!

I just finished writing my new one-act, “The Association.” Had to take a little time away from it because it was feeling too bloated. I cut the cast list in half and tightened things up. And made it more ridiculous. And now I'm really happy.

A ten-page comedy about poverty and hunger. Who'd've thought?

Fringes just read it and said she laughed aloud. Whoot!

“I was considered slow. While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.”

–Dearly departed artist Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008

Had a great Mother's Day. Got a cute Star-Wars-themed card from Lex and the Peanut, and a lovely card from Monstro with a certificate good for one day of heavy lifting and garden mucking. Great stuff! Monstro and the other men from church cooked a Mother's Day brunch for the congregation, and his chile egg puff was the first dish to get all eaten up. When he was still at church cleaning up I called Fringes and we had an on-the-same-page “to the punctuation mark” conversation, which was just as awesome as I knew it was going to be (and I'd set a pretty high bar, let me tell you). After Lex woke up, Monstro cooked us some dinner — we had our first barbeque and our first corn of the season. Great, great, great. And then we watched Friday's “Battlestar Galactica,” which made us happy we'd taped “King of the Hill” to watch afterward.

And now I have to go buy a new power cord for my PowerBook. Bye!

Monstro and the kids and I are participating in the Western Massachusetts Relay for Life this June. Yes, June, that blazingly summer month when I will be *seven* *months* *pregnant*. Please support our fundraising efforts by plunking five bucks (or more! we're not choosy) into our donation pile. If you do, Monstro will do his fat-man dance for you. Just don't tell him you heard it from me. 🙂

I have a new hero. Her name is Bonnie Richardson and she's a-maz-ing. See for yourself!

It's amazing what one woman can accomplish when she gets up at five in the morning. I've graded my photo finals and developed a from-scratch logo and logo/letterhead treatment for a client. Oh, and I read the news and caught up on a couple of blogs. So I think this afternoon I'll either go to a movie or take a big nap!

Monstro: (writing a check for the church offering) “What's today's date?”

Motormouth: “Uh… the fourth.”

Monstro: “Well then, May the fourth be with you!”

Every year I walk into that one. Every stinkin' year.

The reason for much of the bloggy silence this week was due to the fact I was working balls-out for a new client. I just sent him the finished document. It's 39 pages of 14-point Times New Roman (to reduce eyestrain for all involved). And I wrote it in 13 hours. That's with 2-3 drafts, people.

I am off to numb my throbbing head with some dumb TV. Then I need to clean the house for our game night tonight!