{geekette post} Earlier in the year, I was enlisted to help with an interactive Web-based tour of TWU’s burgeoning collection of artwork. As the project has developed over these last several months, I have become increasingly worried about the requirements of the project as compared to my skill set. Sure, I’ve done little tiny things …

Listen to me whine one more time about the heat wave in my office: It’s currently a brisk 45 degrees outside (feels like 39, says the Weather Channel), but my office temperature is officially 83.2 degrees. Fahrenheit. EIGHTY THREE. (POINT TWO.) In my office, this much is true: Perception of outdoor cold is inversely proportional …

I don’t recommend clicking this link (so of course you all will!) … but it’s the official site for Punch Drunk Comedy, a troupe in Dallas currently performing an original Christmas revue (if you will) called “Nogballs” at the Water Tower Theater in Addison. Daniel and I went last night, and it was quite funny. …

Unless I’ve missed something, the last of my assignments/final projects has been turned in for the semester and I’m now in a holding pattern to see how the grades all turn out. I just found out that the last two assignments I completed — which, I should note, *combined* took me less total time than …

I really didn’t like the first of the new CNN.com commercials I saw the other day, but that was mostly because I find Anderson Cooper to be nearly unbearable as an anchor, and it was one of the ones starring him. Today, though, I was working through my long-neglected gmail inbox and noticed a Slate …

NPR had some fabulous book recommendations on this morning. Of those mentioned, here are a few I’m now ready to buy & read: Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father:Human evolution as a kind of domestic situation comedy? Well, Lewis’s yarn–an autobiographical narrative by an ape-man named Ernest–recounts the efforts of Father, the leader …

I had a FABULOUS weekend. Here’s why: “Santaland Diaries” was — if this is possible — better this year than last. The Water Tower Theater revamped the set and it was just BRILLIANT, my friends. If you’re in Dallas (or someplace where you can find “Santaland”), you really should make an effort to sample this …

Curtis’s blog tipped me off to this really fun Geography Quiz, wherein you have to place, via drag-&-drop, US states on a map. I scored an impressive (I think) 92% accuracy, with an average error of 13 miles and total time taken of 266 seconds. Forty-six of my placements were dead-on correct. Not too bad …

We got a live tree on Sunday, and the other day I finally got the ornaments hung on it. This is one I bought at Target on Sunday. I still feel a little nauseous from the sap. 😉

I’ve never been a “cat person,” per se, but I’ve always been an animal person (if I had the stomach for it, I could have been a vet!) and find it hard to resist the charms of any animal that snuggles up with me on the couch. Penny and Simon, the two cats who tagged …