Well, today’s the last day of my Spring Break (ahhhhh… ten days of heaven), so of course I’m in our office at home writing the midterm exam that’s due tomorrow. I’ve actually been impressively focused for the last couple of hours, writing almost the entirety of my first draft, which I’ll print out presently and …
I’m starting to crack…
{we interrupt this happy interlude for some work-related ranting} What little respect I had left for the institution of higher learning that has kept me gainfully employed lo these last three years is flying out the window today. I am so pissed off. I have made it my policy to try my best to keep …
wedding things
Daniel looked at my blog a couple of days ago and mentioned that I’ve really been slacking here. I promise, it’s not for lack of something to say. 🙂 So, I wanted to update the masses on how our year is shaping up. In a word, fantastic! For starters — are you sitting down? — …
another exaltation of Slate
I have raved before about my love affair with Slate, and I’m going to do it again. In class tonight, actually, one of my fellow political science doc students said something about how Slate and Salon are the only two news sources worth reading online (to which another doc student said, “Don’t forget about The …
NPR story about blogging rings SO TRUE
Blogging: A Blight or a Boon to Marriage? by Julie Zickefoose All Things Considered, February 13, 2006 · Commentator Julie Zickefoose and her husband Bill both maintain their own Web blogs. She knows that their obsessive quests to keep those blogs interesting are changing their relationship, but she hasn’t figured out how, yet. I highly …
I will finally admit this publicly…
I HATE Valentine’s Day. I have resisted saying this out loud for, oh, the last 10 years because I didn’t want to be a cliche. I have privately told others that my deep aversion to what I’ve come to call “V Day” is grounded in a romantic notion that love and devotion shouldn’t need a …
expanding your horizons
Today, I dragged myself out of bed waaaaaaaaaaay too early for a Saturday morning, justso I could drive to Denton to talk to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls about my (soon-to-be-former) job as a Web geekette. The name of the program is Expanding Your Horizons, and I first became acquainted with the program two …
it never fails…
I fall in love with radio personalities… I mean, incorporate them into my daily life, develop a relationship with them, etc., and then one day, POOF! They’re gone. I’ve had a growing sense of nausea that it had happened again, and today I listened to the Edge for 30+ minutes without hearing Jagger and the …
It’s time to let go.
Two things in less than 24 hours flowed into my e-mail inbox that reinforce my well-understood self truth that I have a problem letting things (or people) go. I find it such a joy when I find a person or a place that makes me feel comfortable, and I have always been very unwilling to …
I never thought *I* would say this…
… but folks, I am REALLY, really tired of reading. Me. Liz Norell. Tired of looking at books. I said this to a couple of my classmates this afternoon before our 2:00 class, the preparation for which was all I substantively did this weekend. My good friend turned to me and said, “I cannot believe …