Thank goodness for DVD collections. We spent the “snow days” watching season five of The West Wing (one of my favorite TV indulgences), which only just came out on DVD this Tuesday. Talk about great timing! My 36 hours of work reprieve were a fantastic early Christmas present to celebrate the end of school. We …

I may not have fully figured out how to prevent myself from becoming homeless post-working-at-TWU, but I did figure out one thing this morning: Not working in Denton is going to rachet down my stress level about 10 notches. Take today, for example. We all know/knew today was going to bring freezing precipitation to north …

I turned in two papers and a final exam today, thus concluding (on precious little sleep) my first semester in the doc program. PRAISE ALLAH for that. I’m so ready for a very peaceful night’s sleep, and for the tension that’s taken residence in my shoulders, neck and jaw to subside. To celebrate, Daniel and …

Yesterday, I went up to campus to drop off my take-home final “exam” for my Saturday class, and to pick up the paper I was slaving over a couple of weeks back. My professor flipped through his stack of papers, found mine, and leafed through the pages before handing it to me with these words: …

My parents are currently in Hawaii for a week or so on vacation, and so my Aunt Dalis and my mom have sorta taken the lead in finding a suitable location for Daniel and me to get hitched in May. Yesterday, they went up to this place called Turtle Bay on the North Shore to …

Yesterday, an old friend of mine Laetitia (Lucy) posted a comment on my blog, and following the trail back I just found her blog! It’s all in French, but so cool!http://lucy-s–words.blogspot.com

I’ve been struggling with how to word this for a week now. I wanted a chance to tell a few family members and have some time, honestly, for everything to sink in. Given that a blog is such an inherently informal medium, though, and this news feels way more important than anything I’ve ever blogged …

Goodbye, Charlie.

It’s not often that I’m genuinely surprised — and even less often that I’m genuinely surprised and *LIKE* it. 😉 But last night I was totally taken off guard by something I was not expecting, and it was wonderful. I’ll tell you all soon, promise. My parents and grandma will be here tomorrow night…! I …

It’s almost done. I’ve just completed the final edits on my first major political science paper of the semester… I turn it in at 9:15 a.m. today. It’s 7:30 a.m. now. But I would just like to say, in my own defense, that I finished writing this blasted paper last night before midnight. I got …