I am not one to stay up past midnight (not ever, really), but I got completely caught up on my sleep over the weekend and so I decided to stay up late tonight doing some reading for the week ahead. I’ve only done a passable job on that, but I have had a very enjoyable …

It would be too difficult to catalog all of the awesomeness that was my weekend, but two major-cool things happened that feel blog-worthy. First, Rags successfully spent a significant chunk of time within close proximity to another dog. This was HUGE. I can’t say that he enjoyed himself, but nobody got hurt (dogs or otherwise) …

Here’s Rags very soon after I brought him home in ’02. This is from Animals I’m not quite sure why I did this yesterday, but on a whim, I pulled out Rags’s paperwork (the stuff I got when he came to live with me in Sept. 2002) to remind myself exactly when he was born. …

… because Joyce told me about xkcd.com. Here’s the latest gem. I laughed out loud. No, really. NOTE: I had to shrink this to fit. Click to go see the full-sized version on their Web site

(Aside: When I wrote Liz’s charmed life, installment #73, I plucked the number out of thin air, but since this post is following so closely on the heels of that one, I feel compelled to proceed chronologically. In case you’re concerned, YES, I know I’m weird.) So today was a GREAT day… it started off …

My mom officially began her third term as city council member last Thursday, and what a spectacular show we missed! Here’s the write-up from the Baxter Bulletin (emphasis added). (Incidentally, you can also hear some audio clips of my mom and the city attorney and read more at the radio station’s Web site: KTLO story.) …

Earlier this week, I sent an e-mail to a few people asking them to do me a favor… the details of which are unimportant, honestly, and not meant for public consumption. The response has been overwhelming, wonderful, and awesome. (And yes, I recognize that’s incredibly redundant. Deal with it.) I feel so blessed to have …

Yesterday I got my grubby little hands on a copy of the syllabus for a class I’m taking this semester, taught by one of Vanderbilt’s rock star professors. I’ve been (somewhat obnoxiously, I know) vocally distressing over what the reading load was going to be like, and I’m reasonably sure that most of the poor …

As faithful readers of the blog will know, I occasionally let the hound up on the bed with me at night. Generally it’s to allay my own random feelings of guilt… sometimes compensatory, other times anticipatory. Tuesday night was one of the latter, and I hauled him up on the bed (thank God, he can’t …

When asked, Derik will not hesitate to tell you that the Nashville-based group The Floating Men are the best rock group EVER, and so he has been cyber-proselytizing the internet preview of their new project this week. I have recruited myself to the cause — so here’s the scoop. The slow preview began Monday, and …