I know many were there in spirit, but I wanted to say a very public “thank you” to my friend Patrick, who was the lone soul (amongst those I invited, I mean) who came to BD’s last Tuesday to support the TWU Habitat for Humanity girls in their final fundraiser of the year. Thanks to …

Curtis went to see “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead,” and his initial review is just what I expect from someone who’s seen on stage anything Tom Stoppard has written — glowing. YAY! I can’t wait to see this myself. 🙂

So, after a whole week of feeling fuzzy, coughing nonstop, and going through (I’m *not* exaggerating) three whole boxes of Kleenex, today I’m back at work feeling essentially normal. If you’ve felt neglected because I’ve not responded to your e-mails, phone calls, or generally been MIA, that’s why.

So, the official program for July’s university Web conference has been released. I’m on tap for Tuesday at 11:30. Yay! 🙂

Thanks to everyone who elected to play the French-themed “Monday morning trivia” this week… and congratulations to Catpants and Nicole, who correctly guessed (B) “Où est le bœuf?” More on this in a sec. The tricky thing about this particular question is that all of the answers have played a role in my life. A) …

Apologies, all, for letting this blog sit unupdated for nearly a week. It’s been quarterly-sinus-infection time, so I went to the doctor late Wednesday, got good drugs, and am now coughing my way (despite the codeine-laced cough syrup, which only seems to make me dizzy) to recovery. Thank goodness. Unfortunately, the sinus infection hasn’t affect …

Begun last week, Monday morning trivia offers you an opportunity to test your ability to intuit and/or guess the answers to random trivia bits. Here’s today’s question, inspired by two days of sporadic French music: When my first French exchange student, Thierry, came to America my junior year of high school, he was extremely amused …

Saturday was filled with two goose chases for us: Daniel was determined to find the rollerblades that hurt the least/fit the best, were under $100, and had something other than plastic attaching the wheels to the boot; I, on the other hand, was determined to find “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” on DVD. And on …

So, last night Daniel and I had our first weigh-in at Weight Watchers. I was actually pretty excited because I was confident the scale would show at least 3 lbs. lost, and maybe even 4. And, in fact, my weight loss for the week was 3.6 lbs. (Good guessing, Liz!) Daniel lost even more than …

I’ve been trying to post that BD’s message (the most recent blog before this one) since yesterday at 3 p.m., and getting Blogger errors. I checked this morning, and they recommended deleting your cookies to fix the problem. I had my doubts that would work, but I did (in IE, Tools > Internet Options > …