But then there were fewer dogs to bark at me as I passed under the trees, and, where the dog was big, so was the dog door, and I could crawl in and avail myself of the canned and packaged foods in kitchen pantries.
"I could only crawl desperately forward, " Guo was quoted as saying.
Whether stuck in traffic on her way to a 6 p.m. pickup at day care, or torn between her children and urgent work emails, "I just wanted to crawl out of my skin, " she says.
So I can say I had the opportunity to crawl around the shuttle that's next into orbit.
It was a thrill to step out of the bus queue, resentfully observed by ordinary passengers as I turned from frog to princess and stooped to crawl in beside the professor.
The best analogy I can think of is watching your toddler struggle to crawl up stairs or climb onto the couch.
Sometimes at night, I just break down and cry remembering how my daughter used to crawl to me.
My first instinct was go to the Web (The New York Times and CNN), where I saw bulletin headlines that said as much as the CBS news crawl.
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The truth was, I was morbidly embarrassed -- the kind of embarrassed where you'd rather crawl under a rock than face people.
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Despite wanting to just crawl into bed and crash after the 10-hour overnight flight, I returned to the front desk and told the clerk that the room was not acceptable.
The screen crawl of Twitter feeds which ran at the bottom of the screen of the station I happened to be watching the debate on actually had a comment wondering if it would come to blows.
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