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 …
have I mentioned lately that I love my job?
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 …
Unexpected reactions
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 …
whew.
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 …
Ohmygoodness
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 …
praise Allah.
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 …
sometimes, a good Spanking can be good!
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 …
lookin’ for help
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 …
elliptical excitement
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 pledge time! crap!
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 …