My roommate has acquired DVDs of the show Medium, and we’ve been slowly working our way through episodes. The show is a drama about Allison DuBois (played by Patricia Arquette), a psychic who consults for a District Attorney’s office, and apparently is loosely based on an actual person. Ms. Arquette recently won an Emmy for her role in the series, an award which I must reluctantly concede was likely well-deserved.

Allision Dubois is portrayed as a mother, wife, and (initially) law student in Arizona. Upon growing acceptance of her paranormal abilities, she chooses not to pursue law school, and instead finds herself using her abilities as a special consultant to the DA. As the series progress, we see her struggle to come to terms with the impact of her dreams and visions both in her family life as well as in her profession.

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Soccer season is back, our first practice was last Thursday! I had to stop by a couple of stores to find shoes in the right size. Apparently the average soccer player wears a size 39, because that was the one size decently represented on the shelves. (You might think the opposite, but the shelves were quite well stocked. It wasn’t a case of a gaping hole where the 45s should have been.) I managed to find a single (1!) pair that fit; a pair of blue Adidas boots that cost far too much.

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We have a Giants fan at work. This is a man with Giants paraphernalia in his office, on his walls, and season tickets in his pocket. He’s also been on Sabbatical for a number of weeks, and is this very afternoon attending the Giants’ opening game in San Francisco.

It would be unseemly for a coworker to be gone so long without receiving some sort of welcome, and sure enough, certain others in the department took it upon themselves to decorate his office with streamers, posters, a piñata, a signed t-shirt, and sundry other articles.

I should at this point mention that the Chief Decorator is a fan of the LA Dodgers.