Liz

I had a particularly vivid dream a few nights ago about an old friend with whom I’ve lost touch. For the sake of anonymity, I will call him “GW,” a tribute to my alma mater and NOT, as you may suspect, in deference to our current president. 🙂 I don’t know if I’m overly sentimental …

I vowed to finish all grading for my writing students over the weekend, and sitting here at 7:30 a.m. Monday, I will admit that I fell far short of that goal. I have just let it pile up for far too long… even about eight hours of grading was only enough to make a dent …

Today, I handed in my statistics “final” exam. Even though I had it for roughly ten days, apart from looking it over and thinking about it, I didn’t really begin work in earnest until Wednesday. As in *yesterday*. Yet, I was able to crank out most of the work yesterday morning/afternoon, and this morning finished …

Things are, um, crazy. Thankfully, though, I’m starting to see a faint glimmer of light off in the distance. Today I had the last meeting with one of my two SAT classes at Kaplan. I’ve been with this bunch of six students since the day after I got back from England — they actually started …

We are back from Vegas, and I’m happy to report that the trip itself was a delight. Daniel and I got to spend mucho quality time with my parents, as well as with each other (a definite plus), and saw Robert and Joyce when they could sneak away from her family, which had sponsored their …

I cannot believe we’re already halfway through September. Time is moving so quickly. My weeks are just insane. They feel like they’re about two or three weeks long, most likely because every single day feels like two or three days crammed into one. I knew I was in for a rough semester, but this is …

Hmmm… when I took the “nerd test,” this wasn’t quite what I expected. But apparently I have zero awkward nerdiness to me whatsoever…. that’s nice. 🙂

England was fantastic. I probably should have blogged from there, but I didn’t and I won’t try to recap. You can see my pictures at my Google photo album. The fall semester at UTD had already begun when I got off the plane last Saturday, and so this week I went to my classes for …

Someone asked where the amazing tile source is (see previous home renovation post). It’s called Surplus Floor Outlet. I don’t know about the Farmers Branch location, but we started off at the Allen location, where they have a small selection. The McKinney location is the goldmine — it’s a huge warehouse of remainder tile. If …

On April 27, I made a fateful decision. We were in San Antonio for NIOSA, and I was holed up in our hotel room trying to do the impossible — crank out a full research paper in a single day. HA! I have done stranger things, but the key stumbling block this go around was …