Liz

And, I’m turning 30 in a scant four days. Yeesh! (As an aside, I am *not* freaking out. Ahem.) Lots is happening. Perhaps with the most long-term impact (well, possibly, anyway) is the fact that one of our neighborhood stray cats had six kittens in our backyard a month or two ago. We found them …

It’s been nearly a year since our honeymoon trip to Europe, but we’re finally (I should say, Daniel is finally) doing something with our pictures. He’s begun to upload them to Google’s answer to online photo albums. You can see Amsterdam and early cruise ship photos here. Eventually, they’ll all be up there.

To the anonymous commenter who wondered aloud if I might be a little bit pregnant, the answer is a resounding “No!” The comment came in response to this statement: “Meanwhile, for reasons it is unwise to divulge here, I’ve had to give up the summer internship with the feds.” The circumstances that led to my …

It seems like everyone’s got a travelblog these days, but this one is particularly impressive.

There is a woman in my department at school who almost everyone has had a negative experience with at some point, and last week she betrayed my trust and pissed me off in a way that I could not have anticipated. It has shaken me to my core and really made me question a lot …

Yesterday was the official last day of the semester at UTD. We start early; we finish early. It sucks in January but is a welcomed relief come the first week of May. So, after spending much of yesterday sitting around catching up on tivo’d television I haven’t had time to watch, I’m feeling (mostly) refreshed …

Yup. Time to go to the theater! 🙂 Saturday night, we went to see “Wicked” at Fair Park with our friends Gary and Rachelle. As part of the now-defunct YAP book club some time ago, I tried to read the book on which the play is loosely based, and failed miserably. I could not get …

Well, let’s be honest, I was the very opposite of “adventurous” in Chicago this past weekend, but it was a good trip. This was the big to-do political science conference I’ve mentioned before, where I got to present my first solo paper in front of people who may one day be on a committee deciding …

I work hard to avoid watching scary movies — I am really easily influenced and have bad dreams for days after seeing one. I just watched “Jesus Camp,” and I have to say, I don’t think I’ve ever been more frightened by a movie than I am of this one. Whoa.

Last week was UTD’s spring break, a week earlier than most schools, and instead of using the seven days off to cram in lots of extra tutoring and catch up on all the reading and paper-writing I’m so behind in doing, we skipped out of town to go to a “conference” (for me) in Las …