For you non-francophiles out there, the title translates to “my brain feels like applesauce,” and at this moment, the analogy is quite apt. I have been sitting in my beloved big green chair reading for the better part of the last 2.5 hours, and have made substantial progress on my to-do list for the day, …

DC is the city where I really feel I became the Liz you know today, the city where cherry blossoms at springtime always made the world seem rosy, the city where I stood in the freezing cold for hours just to hear oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the city that continually renews itself in …

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 …