Liz

Confirmation came this week of our wedding date. It will be Tuesday, May 9, 2006 — 05/09/06. Mark your calendars now! 😉 Also this week, Daniel and I bought the second half of our plane tickets. Let me explain. Because of the horrible, terrible, ridiculous Wright Amendment (to voice your opposition, check out the Set …

I think maybe I should just not come to Denton anymore. Just make an executive decision that I’m heretofore working strictly from the confines of my bright red home office, where (even though it’s hotter than Hades) at least I can choose when to receive frustrating news. (Answer the phone, or not; read the e-mail, …

a Google search on “Sonja Boles”

Unfortunately, I can’t say that the contest between Citibank and Sonja Boles, landlord-bitch-from-hell, was actually a head-to-head duel. But, I just wanted to reflect for a moment on what excellent customer service looks like. Last summer, I began the process of consolidating my student loans, and my account was sold to Citibank (for those unaware, …

Today was my “last day” lunch at work. My fabulous coworkers took me out to lunch at the place of my choosing (Johnny Carino’s, mmmmmm) and gave me a Target gift card as a parting gift. We don’t do birthday lunches anymore, really, so it was a little strange to again be the impetus for …

Tonight I had my second meeting of my data analysis class. Last fall’s installment, the precursor to this semester’s course, wasn’t all that hard. Sure, it introduced new concepts foreign to most of us in the cohort, but our professor was very patient, explaining things time and time again and drawing from a single data …

I’m much calmer now. I’ve been to all my new classes, met the professors, seen the syllabi, started the reading. This semester IS going to be tough… the stats class is going to eliminate a few people, that much is certain, but I’m absolutely sure I won’t be one of those eliminated. Mostly, though, it’s …

I’ve been to two of my three classes now. Monday’s class is the heavy reading one, but Dr. H has more energy and enthusiasm for the topic than ANY professor I’ve ever seen, so I think it’s going to be a good class. Tuesday’s class is the one that begins by reading a matrix algebra …

For whatever reason, I am a worrier. I worry about things that I know are going to happen, things over which I have little or no control, situations where my worry accrues to me absolutely no positive effects. I’ve been increasing degrees of terrified for the last several weeks, and the terror became truly (physically) …

I’ve spent most of the last two days in “new Teaching Assistant” orientation. I won’t prattle on with an uninteresting review of what happened there. What IS notable, however, is the fact that I’ve been operating under the false delusion that I knew when classes start this spring. I was thinking, for months now, that …