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I began my Ph.D. program a year ago with very clear insecurities: Would I fit in? Was this the right choice? Would I like doctoral-level work? What the hell was I doing? And honestly, that first semester was all about figuring out whether I had made the right decision in starting a Ph.D. — in …

Today isn’t actually the first day of classes for UTD, but it is MY first day of classes. We officially started back last Thursday, but since I only have classes on Monday & Tuesday (and TA on Wednesday), well, things are only really getting started for me today. My TA assignment has changed this fall. …

The breakfast buffet on the Century often had pain au chocolat available in the mornings, and since I so rarely see those around in Texas (generally, only at La Madeleine), I frequently nabbed one to eat with my breakfast of fruit and waffles. (YUM!) Because I got so used to seeing them, and because whenever …

After a relatively uneventful day of traveling, we stumbled into the comfort of home yesterday around 3:30 p.m. … hooray! We ended up staying awake and functional nearly until 8:30 last night. In other words, yesterday was essentially a 24-hour day for us. And today, life is back to normal, as long as you overlook …

We have had such limited (and expensive) Internet access that I haven’t had a chance to blog about our fabulous European vacation… however, we’re now back in Amsterdam, on steady land again, and getting ready for a relatively early (though not as early as we might have hoped) bedtime so we can get up — …

This is an e-mail I sent to my mom and Daniel’s family…. just a quick update from Europe! We got into town around 12:30 local time (+7 hrs from CST) Sunday and breezed through customs. They stamped our passports on our way to baggage claim, and after we retrieved our bags, we walked through a …

This is for the Mountain Home natives out there, particularly people who can listen to a certain piece of music (say, the theme from “Robin Hood”?) and hear in their minds, “plant-KICK!” From today’s Baxter Bulletin: Several file for municipal, school board positions {snip} In school board filings this week, Robert Nelson filed for Mountain …

Holy crap. Last night, when I got done with my next-to-last test-prep training class, I crashed on the couch in a state of sheer mental exhaustion. Even though I resigned myself to the fact that I was probably going to get very little done vis-a-vis my last (big) paper for the summer yesterday, I actually …

I’m dangerously close to being done with another (my third) semester at UTD… just one more (big) paper to write, due by Friday sometime, and then I’m free to take my (I think) much-deserved summer vacation. Until Monday of this week, I didn’t even have an idea for a topic for this paper, but I’m …

I have long enjoyed the films of Kevin Smith, and so it was a given that Daniel and I would go see Clerks II on its opening day. We just got back from our cheap date matinee showing, and I have to say — I’ve seen all of Kevin’s films, and this one had me …