in my cd player... Sarah Cracknell Kelly's Locker   on the page... Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay The Federalist Papers   into... dishpan hands; flurries in october; gaining an hour; new project assignments; stilton and romaine   life changes... Krista and Adam are brand new parents. Unlucky-lucky Bev suffers through a scary fire. We're all going through something right now.   right around the corner... Last weekend, LA Michael looked out my front door and talked about the future snow. Today I stood in the exact same spot and saw it first hand.   coincidence... Last week I was all about livid. LA Michael looked it up in the dictionary to find that it literally means blue-gray in color. Then in today's New York Times Magazine, William Safire writes an entire column on the word. Hmmmmm. Odd.   brilliant bargain... $1.50 for a 1997 The Politics of American Government. I don't think I've ever been excited about a text book.