Liz

I’ve been really quiet lately — most of the semester, in fact — but today I got proof positive that my efforts have paid off. I’ve mentioned before (including recently) that, as time goes by, I feel increasingly more at home in my new academic discipline (political science). I started the program about 16 months …

Apparently, Sonja Boles, who I’ve previously described as the bitch landlord from hell, has struck again. My heart goes out to the anonymous poster who this morning sent an “amen” to my past posts lamenting the misfortune of our decision to live in one of her rental properties. It wasn’t that long ago that I …

Graduates of Mountain Home (Arkansas) High School will recognize that line from one of the staple cheers. (For those who aren’t familiar, my high school alma mater’s mascot is a Bomber. We even have one!)Anyway, I digress. I have many things to report vis-a-vis my awesome high school, and here they are. First, the football …

I’m working fast and furious on a major project/paper due next Tuesday for one of my classes. I have spent much of the semester not complaining about this particular assignment, in stark contrast to many of my peers in the class, because it’s (in theory) a far more palatable assignment than many of the things …

I was heading back to campus after a very brief reprieve from my normal, hellish Monday routine yesterday around 2:30 when I heard the absolutely coolest thing on KERA, Dallas’s local NPR station. It was a story from the PRI program The World about a hotel in Romania that was built as a replica of …

This will mean very little to almost everyone who reads it, but TOO BAD. I just found out late last night (1 full day late, so I had completely given up hope) that I got a solo paper accepted for presentation at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting next April in Chicago. THIS IS HUGE! …

I sorta feel like a crusader these days when it comes to alcohol, which is bizarre for many reasons, not the least of which being that I rarely drink and have only been drunk once. (Thank you AnnaLisa!) It all started last week. Two things happened that got me talking about alcohol, and since then …

We’re talking about Thanksgiving and Christmas plans, I’ve got less than a month to write three major papers plus make major revisions/additions to a fourth, and need to grade a stack of exams. It must be (almost) November! School is racheting up for the final push, due in large part to the fact that UTD …

My mom was on KTLO radio last night participating in the candidate forum. You can listen here. Her opponent was supposed to be there as well, but didn’t show up — and has offered no explanation, even though they saw one another this morning. Weird! Also, my dad was on the 7 a.m. news today, …

I got an e-mail from Linens N Things today that, I kid you not, had this as its headline: Breaking News in Dinnerware & Stemware The point was that they have a new line of dinnerware that is supposed to be break/chip resistant. Still, I just thought it was very funny. Maybe that tells you …