{excerpted from the Baxter Bulletin} New planning commissioners to be appointed The Mountain Home Planning Commission, with only four remaining members, met to approve two items on an agenda Monday, its first meeting since nearly half the panel resigned last week. Three commissioners, including the chairman, resigned Friday following questions about their residency qualifications. Present …
another moment of validation
I won’t go into details, because … well, I tried, but honestly, it was really boring, even to me … and if it’s boring to me, I can’t imagine you would be remotely interested. The bottom line is that I’m working on a new research project that is really promising. I think it can be …
well, crap.
A rough night on Crooked CreekBombers’ dreams crash amidst penalty flags at Harrison From The Baxter Bulletin HARRISON — Coming out with more intensity than in their last contest, the Mountain Home High School Bombers fell victim to the penalty bug and never recovered Friday night, losing 41-23 to the rival Harrison Goblins at Crooked …
our family in Sweden
I can’t tell you how many friends from the past I’ve been able to rekindle contact with because of this blog… it’s cool, because people will somehow stumble upon this blog (or my old, out of date, long neglected Web site) and find out what’s more or less going on in my life, then send …
for the first time, I really FEEL like an academic
I began my Ph.D. program a year ago with very clear insecurities: Would I fit in? Was this the right choice? Would I like doctoral-level work? What the hell was I doing? And honestly, that first semester was all about figuring out whether I had made the right decision in starting a Ph.D. — in …
back to school, back to life
Today isn’t actually the first day of classes for UTD, but it is MY first day of classes. We officially started back last Thursday, but since I only have classes on Monday & Tuesday (and TA on Wednesday), well, things are only really getting started for me today. My TA assignment has changed this fall. …
Les P’Tits Pains Au Chocolat
The breakfast buffet on the Century often had pain au chocolat available in the mornings, and since I so rarely see those around in Texas (generally, only at La Madeleine), I frequently nabbed one to eat with my breakfast of fruit and waffles. (YUM!) Because I got so used to seeing them, and because whenever …
We’re back!
After a relatively uneventful day of traveling, we stumbled into the comfort of home yesterday around 3:30 p.m. … hooray! We ended up staying awake and functional nearly until 8:30 last night. In other words, yesterday was essentially a 24-hour day for us. And today, life is back to normal, as long as you overlook …
Flying home soon!
We have had such limited (and expensive) Internet access that I haven’t had a chance to blog about our fabulous European vacation… however, we’re now back in Amsterdam, on steady land again, and getting ready for a relatively early (though not as early as we might have hoped) bedtime so we can get up — …
From Amsterdam
This is an e-mail I sent to my mom and Daniel’s family…. just a quick update from Europe! We got into town around 12:30 local time (+7 hrs from CST) Sunday and breezed through customs. They stamped our passports on our way to baggage claim, and after we retrieved our bags, we walked through a …