Yesterday at work, we had a lovely fight over the thermostat — my coworker Kathy and I were sweltering (the temperature was 83.5 degrees at one point), so I kept turning on the AC, and someone else in the office, apparently feeling somewhat chilly, kept coming behind us to turn the heater back on AND …

Checking in now with my semi-regular Asylum Street Spankers update … While no Dallas show is slated for the immediate future, the Spankers will be making a Denton appearance on Saturday, Feb. 12 at Dan’s Silverleaf (I’ve never been there nor heard of it). In other spanker-ific news, the entire catalog of Spankers music is …

I mentioned last week that I got approval to advertise for and hire a student assistant to help me out at work. I had a host of people call me interested in the job and am doing interviews this week. Whoever ends up taking this job will be starting next week Wednesday. I am SO …

For the first time in an embarassingly long time, last night I went to the gym (this time to Bally‘s, where Daniel has long had a membership, and now I do, too!) and spent 30 minutes on an elliptical machine. Given that it’s been more than a short while since I last worked out, the …

It’s almost time for KERA’s quarterly NPR pledge drive, which always spells trouble for my bottom line as I seem incapable of resisting the call to up my monthly contribution. Glenn Mitchell is particularly good at inspiring guilt in me for not giving them more money (and, don’t get me wrong, I love him for …

Apart from two or three hours at Rhett and Stacey’s wedding Saturday night, the last 65 hours or so (counting from when I arrived home Friday night) have been distinctly punctuated by the sense that the universe is playing one really huge practical joke on me. Except it’s not funny … unless, apparently, you’re not …

Saturday night, Daniel and I went to his friend Rhett’s wedding to Stacey, two people I’ve only known a short while and haven’t had many opportunities to get to know terribly well. It was a gorgeous wedding held at an asian art museum in downtown Dallas. Stacey looked stunning, Rhett cleaned up very nicely, Daniel …

I just got off the phone with a student who is already interested in applying for the new position I mentioned earlier this week to help me out. She sounded very bright and composed over the phone, and is a second-semester freshman. I’m so excited! Last night’s YAP outing to the Improv to see Jim …

A doable practicum site for my MLS program has finally been offered to me — I’m going to be at the TWU library in the reference department this spring. I sometimes half-jokingly think of the library staff as a major contingent of my (totally imaginary) fan club, which seems to have paid off as they’re …

Last night, after resurrecting my GW transcript to compute my junior/senior undegraduate GPA (what sort of messed up question is that?!) and after locating my old GRE scores, I submitted my application for the Ph.D. program at UTD. I’ve got three people recruited to do my recommendations (all congratulated my decision, which was nice). The …