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Actual internal dialogue from last night:

"Well, the kids are asleep, I should have time to write a quick blog entry before I clean the kitchen... Let's see here...

"First I'll get some inspiration---ooh, Chanson has some new comments. Look at her blogroll, she's got a lot of interesting things on the side. Let me just check out Stay at Aum Mom's blog. She's got a link to Neil Gaiman! I'll just read that one too. Oh, I haven't read my friend Lenise's blog for a long time, I'd better do that. Oh, someone told me the other day about a public domain audio book site, let's see, what was it called? Ahh, LibriVox. Any titles I'd be interested in? Wow, look at all of these!

"OK, back to my blog. I'd like to tell friends about it, I wonder if there are any other mathmoms out there. I'll just google... There are a ton of sites. Hmm, what about mathmomma? Mathmama? Here's a link to mathgoddess, what fun...

"Oops. It's 10 o'clock, time for bed. Guess the blog (and the kitchen) will have to wait until tomorrow."

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