I have a very bizarre, very frightening love for grammar & style rules. So I was just perusing the Chicago Manual of Style’s Web site (yes, kids, that’s what I do for *fun* and *amuseument* {shudder} ), and found a cute article about the evil split infinitive here, under “Split Infinitives”. I refuse to hand …
super fun
We had a few people over to watch the Super Bowl last night. Daniel cooked up fajita meat and we made quesadillas between commercials. Everyone agreed this year’s crop of commercials were significantly less impressive than other years … but the game was close, the company was wonderful, and I actually managed to clean up …
spanker evangelism
Everyone who reads this blog with any regularity knows about my borderline obsession with the Asylum Street Spankers … and today, I had a chance to introduce someone new (my coworker Kathy) to the Spankers. I’d invited her (and her husband) to join us for the Spankers performance in Denton on Feb. 12, and at …
when I was 26 …
I was listening to some Asylum Street Spankers music during my commute home tonight, and realized that the last time I saw them live: Julie still lived here and wasn’t dating anyone. I was 26. It was my birthday week o’ fun. We were all on ready alert to discern the true feelings of Gramps, …
I can be vague, too
In the tradition started by Matt of blog posts that make little or no sense unless you’re in on the story, I’d like to say this to my small but important fan base in Korea: Yes, and by a factor of at least a hundred, it’s the best it’s ever been. 🙂
eeps
Overslept today. No doubt because I didn’t get home until after 11:00 last night. {sigh} I really don’t know how this whole Wednesday night practicum thing is going to work out. Thankfully, it’s only ’til May 6. In other “this semester is killing me” news, plane tickets to Hawaii keep getting more expensive and I’m …
apparently, I’m no snow-maker
Although my powers as a rainmaker are known (and documented), apparently it does not translate into also being able to summon up precipitation of the frozen variety. For the 24 hours beginning Monday afternoon, the Weather Channel was predicting 1-3 inches of snow in Dallas last night. Alas, we didn’t get a single flake, as …
it really IS the small things in life …
Seriously, guys, sometimes it can be so easy to make us girls happy. (I’m not saying ALL the time, but definitely some of the time!) I mean, when something big happens to me, sure, I’m thrilled (witness last week’s excitement over cheap airfare to DC and AnnaLisa’s trip to Dallas!). But then something small can …
say the “s” word, and all hell breaks lose
It was palatable. You could taste the fear and/or excitement in the air today everywhere I went. While doing my regular Monday “practicum Liz” shift at the library today, I didn’t even have to hear the word “snow” to know that something was afoot. And indeed, my most recent check of the error-prone weather.com forecast …
BJ’s disappoints for the first time.
Tonight I went to one of my favorite restaurants, BJ’s, to have some dinner and do some light (ha) gender-law reading. (And really, can you think of a better thing to read about at BJ’s than laws that discriminate against women?!?!) I went there specifically to indulge in their fabulous fried chicken — which, incidentally, …