Today, I dragged myself out of bed waaaaaaaaaaay too early for a Saturday morning, justso I could drive to Denton to talk to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls about my (soon-to-be-former) job as a Web geekette. The name of the program is Expanding Your Horizons, and I first became acquainted with the program two …

I fall in love with radio personalities… I mean, incorporate them into my daily life, develop a relationship with them, etc., and then one day, POOF! They’re gone. I’ve had a growing sense of nausea that it had happened again, and today I listened to the Edge for 30+ minutes without hearing Jagger and the …

Two things in less than 24 hours flowed into my e-mail inbox that reinforce my well-understood self truth that I have a problem letting things (or people) go. I find it such a joy when I find a person or a place that makes me feel comfortable, and I have always been very unwilling to …

… but folks, I am REALLY, really tired of reading. Me. Liz Norell. Tired of looking at books. I said this to a couple of my classmates this afternoon before our 2:00 class, the preparation for which was all I substantively did this weekend. My good friend turned to me and said, “I cannot believe …

Confirmation came this week of our wedding date. It will be Tuesday, May 9, 2006 — 05/09/06. Mark your calendars now! 😉 Also this week, Daniel and I bought the second half of our plane tickets. Let me explain. Because of the horrible, terrible, ridiculous Wright Amendment (to voice your opposition, check out the Set …

I think maybe I should just not come to Denton anymore. Just make an executive decision that I’m heretofore working strictly from the confines of my bright red home office, where (even though it’s hotter than Hades) at least I can choose when to receive frustrating news. (Answer the phone, or not; read the e-mail, …

a Google search on “Sonja Boles”

Unfortunately, I can’t say that the contest between Citibank and Sonja Boles, landlord-bitch-from-hell, was actually a head-to-head duel. But, I just wanted to reflect for a moment on what excellent customer service looks like. Last summer, I began the process of consolidating my student loans, and my account was sold to Citibank (for those unaware, …

Today was my “last day” lunch at work. My fabulous coworkers took me out to lunch at the place of my choosing (Johnny Carino’s, mmmmmm) and gave me a Target gift card as a parting gift. We don’t do birthday lunches anymore, really, so it was a little strange to again be the impetus for …

Tonight I had my second meeting of my data analysis class. Last fall’s installment, the precursor to this semester’s course, wasn’t all that hard. Sure, it introduced new concepts foreign to most of us in the cohort, but our professor was very patient, explaining things time and time again and drawing from a single data …