Uncategorized

Last summer, Julie appointed herself to the position of rollerblading coach in my tentative but determined baby steps (or were those jerks?) towards inline skating proficiency. I found out the other day that Plano Parks & Rec is offering a basic inline skating class starting Jan. 30 for 90 minutes once a week (Sundays), lasting …

Ok, so it’s not any thanks to Santa, but yesterday, I finally fulfilled a longtime dream. I bought a Dyson. Specifically, this one. Vacuuming is henceforth a totally changed experience. And I haven’t even had a chance to use it yet. 🙂

I don’t mean to imply that those with whom I spent time over the holidays are uncivilized, but rather that getting up at 6 a.m. is apparently something I’m going to have to ease my way back into — since today, I hit snooze for 30 minutes before turning off my alarm clock and sleeping …

Here’s my favorite Christmas picture, of (l-r) Daniel, me and Bobby, sporting our awesome reindeer antlers. Other pictures are at my Yahoo photo album. PS: My shirt read “I’ve been naughty” — Ma Norell cut off the critical last word. 🙂

Others have done an excellent job of conveying Christmas cheer (see: Sandra, Mark, etc.), so I’ll just say that the holiday was fantastic. It snowed quite a bit more in Mountain Home than it did in Dallas, but it’s not on the roads hardly at all and driving around isn’t an issue. We took the …

{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 …