There are only about 30 days left in the spring semester, and the daily rise in tension on campus is quickly becoming palpable. Everyone’s starting to stress about the stress… and honestly, that’s about to move into the realm of full-blown stress given the fact that our first big term paper is due a week …

Until this morning, I had completely forgotten how it feels to work so hard at the gym I left crying. Towards the end, my trainer, Chris, said, “Wow, I’ve never seen you this tired.” (“Never” being a relative term meaning not the last two times I worked out with him.) I asked him how he …

Before I get started, Kevin Nealon was great. He was by no means the funniest comic I’ve ever seen at the Improv (far, far from it, actually), but the experience of seeing him perform was fantastic and we had a wonderful time out Saturday night. Now, to the topic of today’s post. The feeling has …

Tonight, we’re going to see Kevin Nealon at the Improv in Addison. And I am SO EXCITED! I have loved Kevin Nealon ever since he was “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live back in the 1990s, and his more recent TV role on “Weeds” has also become a favorite. How fun!

Well, today’s the last day of my Spring Break (ahhhhh… ten days of heaven), so of course I’m in our office at home writing the midterm exam that’s due tomorrow. I’ve actually been impressively focused for the last couple of hours, writing almost the entirety of my first draft, which I’ll print out presently and …

{we interrupt this happy interlude for some work-related ranting} What little respect I had left for the institution of higher learning that has kept me gainfully employed lo these last three years is flying out the window today. I am so pissed off. I have made it my policy to try my best to keep …

Daniel looked at my blog a couple of days ago and mentioned that I’ve really been slacking here. I promise, it’s not for lack of something to say. 🙂 So, I wanted to update the masses on how our year is shaping up. In a word, fantastic! For starters — are you sitting down? — …

I have raved before about my love affair with Slate, and I’m going to do it again. In class tonight, actually, one of my fellow political science doc students said something about how Slate and Salon are the only two news sources worth reading online (to which another doc student said, “Don’t forget about The …

Blogging: A Blight or a Boon to Marriage? by Julie Zickefoose All Things Considered, February 13, 2006 · Commentator Julie Zickefoose and her husband Bill both maintain their own Web blogs. She knows that their obsessive quests to keep those blogs interesting are changing their relationship, but she hasn’t figured out how, yet. I highly …

I HATE Valentine’s Day. I have resisted saying this out loud for, oh, the last 10 years because I didn’t want to be a cliche. I have privately told others that my deep aversion to what I’ve come to call “V Day” is grounded in a romantic notion that love and devotion shouldn’t need a …