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I probably won’t get very many hours billed today, because at 4:30 I’m headed to a birthday party for a coworker’s baby girl who’s turning 1 year old today. Last night, I truly frightened myself when I spontaneously decided to go buy a birthday gift at Target and found myself adding cute outfit after cute outfit to my basket. Dressing babies is a lot like dressing dolls (only wigglier) in my still-in-the-abstract mind, but when I got to the tiny little socks for newborns and made a squee noise, that’s when I became honest to god ashamed of myself. I put most of the stuff I’d selected back on the shelf, and settled on an adorable outfit of a matching shirt and jean skirt, plus a terrycloth coverup and hat. (This particular baby is headed to her grandparents’ house in St. Thomas in a month and already loves to swim, so I know the latter will be perfect for that trip.) I left Target terrified that my biological clock just awakened from its long hibernation and will be terrorizing me for the next ten years. Being that I’m single and not dating anyone right now and thus not in a position to get knocked up anytime soon, I’m a little worried about that.

After the birthday party I have to skedaddle to the Commerce Club downtown for the Atlanta Press Club panel on Ethics and the New Media. After multiple APC events about how the blogosphere, social media and YouTube are changing the face of traditional media, it was striking how concerned APC members apparently are about what they believe to be ethical lackings in “members” of the “new media.” I suspect this panel was set up as a place for them to air their grievances, particularly when you see the panel is a little sparse on representatives of the new media whose ethics will be hotly debated. Basically, the short version of all that blather up there is I think we’re spoiling for a fight and I wanna be there to watch. I like to watch.

After that if I’m not completely demolished by a long week and day, I think I’ll be returning to the weekly poker game. I haven’t played in 3 weeks and I need to start brushing up on my live play skills in advance of our trip to New Orleans in May.

So, for the six or so hours I’ll have in the office before the baby party, I’ll probably need to actually work and thus blogging will resume tomorrow. Maybe. If I feel like it.

(Oh yeah, that music post below is one I tried to post like 3 weeks ago and it just showed up last night. ***ing YouTube!)

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