Katherine’s primary title remains Little Miss Entropy (maximizing disorder wherever she goes), but she’s also gaining personal renown as the Piping Voice of My Conscience. <\/p>\n
To wit, sitting here, working from home, I would normally be inclined to be nibbling on stuff. Chips (many, many potato chips around here). Cookies (thank you, Girl Scouts everywhere). Any other number of things.<\/p>\n
But I can’t. Because Katherine will want some. And I’m trying to minimize her inter-meal snacking, which means I end up minimizing my own.<\/p>\n
Which, yeah, is a Good Thing. But it’s still mildly irksome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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