I got home from Houston around 6:00 Thursday night, and after a quick 15-minute reprieve on the new couches (they arrived Thursday!), set into action to get ready for our Good Friday/Easter weekend garage sale. About the best you could say we’d done to get ready in advance was cleaning off/out the old couches last …

Rachelle recommended this quiz. I took it. And apparently, I’m a “XPIG–Expressive Practical Intellectual Giver.” Here’s the description: You are a XPIG–Expressive Practical Intellectual Giver. This makes you a Catch. You are a magazine-cover, matinee idol dreamboat. Parents love you and want to set you up with their kids. However, first dates are tough because …

So, I *just* finished watching “Bridget Jones 2: The Edge of Reason.” Julie had warned me that it wasn’t as good as the first movie, and I’m willing to concede she was right … but not by much. Colin Firth was adorable (as always) and the movie was the right combination of funny and sweet. …

There’s been a generally upward trend in traffic to this blog, and I know from the sketchy data tabulated by the bravenet counter over there in the right sidebar that a fair amount of my traffic comes from random strangers. In years past, when my personal online activity centered around my Web site, I’ve felt …

Yes, yes, I know, it’s *so* boring to listen to other people complain about traffic. Still, I would just like to say in testimony to my love of Target that I endured 15 minutes of very nearly nonstop traffic EACH WAY just so I could buy Bridget Jones 2 at Target instead of Wal-Mart. (But …

1. I read this article: Football needs to start making Title IX sacrifices 2. I posted this analysis/reaction: I really liked Dennis Dodd’s article — I think he makes a number of excellent, relevant points, perhaps most importantly that college athletic directors are scared of Title IX, lazy in their implementation of it, and thus …

Today’s my first of three days at TWU’s campus in Houston. I’ve never been a tremendous fan of the city, but in the last couple of years I’ve been here four times (including this trip) to meet with and train our Web people here. My morning began painfully early — the alarm went off around …

Explain this to me: I’ve known for a week that the day before I left for Houston (which is now *today* — I fly out at 7:30 tomorrow morning, erg) would be crazy busy. So why didn’t I bother to begin frenetic trip preparations until, oh, yesterday? I’m not whining, just pointing out that I …

My library practicum, which started back in mid-January, has become far less exciting these days. I find my twice-weekly (plus the occasional Sunday) four-hour shifts typically lay before me in a vast nothing-to-do expanse of time to fill. So, I continue doing homework, Ph.D.-related research, etc., and whatever else I can to waste as little …

Friday night, Daniel and I went to see “Be Cool,” John Travolta’s follow up to “Get Shorty.” Though I had heard it was only okay, I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie … particularly the first five or ten minutes, which was a nonstop series of lines that poked fun at the …