Liz

I’ll be the first to admit that I am ruled by my passions. Here, I mean “passion” not as an emotion but as a noun, a tangible *thing* that demands my attention to the exclusion of most all else. When I get to the critical point in a novel, for example, when I simply MUST …

Apart from making a (barely) living wage and meeting the woman who would marry my best friend from high school, there were not a lot of high points to living in my hometown for the 18 months or so following my college graduation. An important exception, the diamond in the rough (so to speak), was …

This year’s holidays have just been strange. We celebrated Christmas with Daniel’s mom on the 16th — way early — and aren’t having Christmas with my family until the 29th. This basically means we’ll be celebrating Christmas for more than two weeks! Very bizarre. Anyway, I’m writing this from my dad’s recliner on my brand-new …

Difficult as it is to believe, Christmas is just five days away. This is a strange year for us, holiday-wise, as we’re not going up to see my parents until the weekend following Christmas. For my mom, who adores Christmas, this could have been a difficult thing to accept, until she realized the other day …

It wasn’t until I saw the movie “Waitress,” so highly recommended by my sister-in-law Lisa, that I was really aware of Keri Russell as an actress. I loved the movie, though, and recently decided to watch her TV series “Felicity” on DVD. Daniel DETESTS this show — I cannot adequately stress to you how deeply …

Yesterday, my developmental writing students took their second crack at passing the exit test that will allow them to move out of developmental (i.e., remedial, non-credit-earning) classes and into freshman English composition. The ones who had to take this second round were those who missed passing on the first attempt, and several of my students …

Vets in America are out of control. I’m not the first one to come to this conclusion — see, for example, Emily Yoffe’s column on Slate on how to say no to your vet. I have been increasingly ticked off at the vet we’ve been using for the last couple of years, simply because the …

I just learned late yesterday that one of my ongoing research projects has been accepted for presentation at the Council for European Studies conference in Chicago next March. I submitted a proposal to attend this conference back last June 1st, so I’ve been waiting for this news for a *really* long time! Yay Liz! 🙂

Wow. I’m on a regular blogging spree!! haha Yesterday afternoon, which now seems like an eternity ago thanks to the insanity that is my daily life right now, I had a brief conversation with my stats professor about my final paper for his class. Nearly a month ago, I turned in an assignment that asked …

While driving home tonight from Southlake, I was thinking about songs I haven’t listened to in a long time, and started reminiscing about some of the songs that have come to have personal significance for me over the last 10 or 15 years. By no means is this list complete, but here are 17 songs …