I'll Take Potpourri for $200, Alex

• I'm suddenly swamped with work! I got two–count 'em, two!—Italian projects and an American history project, all at the same time. Yikes.
• I think I have my Top Ten list done now. I'm just glancing at it every day or two to make sure I'm satisfied. Then I plan to write a brief explanation or argument for each entry, which ought to be downright torturous.
• One complaint about IKEA: Would it kill them to use the kinds of labels that peel easily off glassware? Goo-Gone, take me away!
• Piano? Still not tuned.
• Birth certificates? We had indeed put them in the safe-deposit box, so we wouldn't lose them. D'oh!