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It's been a while since we had a sleeping-baby picture, so here's SteelyKid at bedtime last night:

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I swear I wasn't going for the Catherine Wheel album cover effect, but what can you do?

SteelyKid and I are off to Boston today, where she'll be visiting her grandmother while I head up to Maine to give a colloquium talk at Bates. If you have any message for Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe, leave it in the comments, and I'll be sure to pass it along if I see them.

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