I got a random comment earlier today from a French guy who wanted to know if I’m French, since my blog name “Quelque chose a dire” is in French. How cool is that?!?! For those who couldn’t have guessed (or don’t otherwise know), I’m a longtime francophile with a genuine love for the French language. …

I’d just like to say that I think yesterday’s Oscar nomination announcements made a serious mistake in overlooking Sean Penn‘s performance in “The Assassination of Richard Nixon,” which we saw Saturday at the Angelika Plano in my latest YAP indie movie outing. The movie, by the way, was really good — though, as it were, …

So, Monday I worked my first shift as “Practicum Liz” over at the TWU library. When I walked in and headed for the reference area — which, I should mentioned, is staffed by a group of librarians who I know, almost without exception, quite well — one of the librarians with whom I’ll be working …

Just a note — I’ve been quieter than normal because I’ve been fighting off a few different maladies that conspired to keep me home yesterday. Between my semi-regular head cold/sinus infection and a quarterly flare-up of other issues (and then add the full moon this week!), yeesh. But I’m back now. Sorta feeling normal. (I.e., …

I got a “blast from the past” message yesterday via the YAP Web site from a guy I dated for a few months immediately after returning to Arkansas from college in ’99. It was pretty random (at least, for me), and the contents of said message are included below: “Greetings Liz, I thought I would …

My mother, City Council member extraordinaire, has been involved in a toussle recently with the mayer of my hometown, Ed House, over several unilateral decisions he made around the first of the year. For those interested in reading about the draaaama unfolding in good ol’ Mountain Home, here are some links (no promises about how …

OH, happy day! I have just now (literally) found out that I’m once again approved/OK to go to the annual Web Communications & Strategies Conference in Salisbury, Md., this July. I went last year (remember the Bay photos? my visit with AnnaLisa? or my posts from the conference site?) and had a blast. Plus, it …

Last weekend, Daniel and I saw two movies, both of which inspired unexpected reactions from me. The first was “In Good Company,” the new Dennis Quaid / Topher Grace / Scarlett Johansson flick about a man in his 50s who is replaced an unexperienced lad half his age. From all the publicity associated with the …

Seriously. Did I mention I’m a wee bit overwhelmed? 🙂 In other news, my student assistant started today. {happy dance} I have the overwhelming sense that I have most definitely made the right choice. She just “fits” — she’s very bright, has already (in her 90 minutes here today) made sense of every bit of …

So, without a tremendous amount of fanfare on my part (because I went to an all-day workshop that meant I missed the usually crazy influx of cars to campus), classes at TWU started yesterday. Last night, I went to the first meeting of my mostly-online upper-level undergraduate government course about the law as it relates …