This week

Posted by David Roberts at 4:30 PM on 02 May 2007

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Yeargh! This week sucks.

We're having a whole series of planning/strategy meetings at Grist, which have eaten all my blogging time. There's a conference on ethics and climate change starting tomorrow at UW that I intended to go to but now probably can't. The WGIII IPCC report comes out on Friday, and I was supposed to write a story on it, but when am I going to do that? The Andrew Bird concert is on Saturday night. I've got a piece on smart grids for Popular Science that needs editing. I still haven't caught up with the backlog from my Brooklyn vacation (current number of tabs open: 35). And to boot, my wife is leaving town, abandoning me with both kids for the first time ever. She tells me they eat three times a day. Frankly, that just seems indulgent.

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It's really not that bad. Trust me.

Step 1. Your wife will come back. (probably, even if only to pick up the kids and subpeona you)

Step 2.- Conferences are mostly for people looking for a job or self promoting. You appear to have one job. Be grateful.

Step 3.- Call babysitter, offer profound bribes and attend concert. Like sex consider this your last chance ever; it might be.

Step 4.- Visit Trader Joes for kid feeding supplies. Cheerios, PBJ, frozen pizza and mac-and-cheese goes a long way. If you drop frozen peas in with the noodles of the mac and cheese kids can't get them out of the noodles and therefore eat a vegetable. Buy lots of apples and bananas. Get some paper plates while you're out, or better those bamboo plates that are the same size and you can wipe clean really fast.

Step 5. Remember the rule of Lunch. Any office project that can wait till after lunch can wait till tomorrow.

Have a nice life you lucky bastard.

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by Pangolin at 9:46 PM on 02 May 2007

Babysitting

Pay my way from Atlanta and I'll be the great-aunt babysitter. I've got lots of experience with boys.

by Baby Boomer at 7:55 AM on 03 May 2007

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