the predictable ups and downs II*

After a weekend of feeling like crap, and writing what I really believed was the crappiest draft of anything I ever wrote, I am sitting here Tuesday night feeling, well, not crappy.**
What happened? Well, it turns out I got some great feedback on my (I gather not-so-crappy) draft from my writing group. My advisor even [...]

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the downside of a great mystery series

is that it inevitably comes to an end.
I have read 5 books, and have now only 2 books left to read in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. I finished Justice Hall today on the bus. I actually read it slower and slower towards the end as I didn’t want to finish reading [...]

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barney & the night stalker

Jeez.
The world looses Don Knotts and Darrin McGavin all in one day.
(and I feel like I have the freakin’ flu)

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my love for wordpress grows

I am increasingly happy about my move to wordpress from (what I now consider to be the evil) blogger. I haven’t lost an entry since moving from blogger (wordpress saves as you write) and I adore being able to categorize everything (links, posts etc.). A few weeks ago they added a feature where I could [...]

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danger, danger bell hooks!

David Horowitz is asking people to vote for the “Most Dangerous Academics in America. He’s the one who started all that Americans for Academic “Freedom” doublespeak crap. (ohh they have a UW-Madison chapter)
You can vote here for the most dangerous. (note the misspelling of Berkeley)
Some of my favorite academics are on here! How could I [...]

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justifications for procrastination and the like.

The week goes by too fast, and it is now Friday morning and I am grumpy about how much job sucked up all my time this week, and stressed out about how much I have to do this weekend. How is it I get to Friday every single week with none of my own work [...]

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must miss TV

I watch the news in the morning- Charlie, Diane and Robin on GMA. I don’t know why sometimes. I like to hear the headlines, and the weather, and having noise in the morning to focus on helps me wake up.
This morning the major focus is the problem of too many choices on TV tonight. The [...]

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pros & cons – advice needed

I can’t make up my mind. I have been considering getting a carrel at the library on campus so that I can work there. I don’t have a place on campus where I can work. My office for my PA job is shared with other people, and is really is just a desk with a [...]

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curried squash update

My curried sqaush was a success. I don’t know why I didn’t make it sooner. It tasted nearly as good as what we always go to the Laotian restaurant to get. It was pretty easy to make (well, pealing squash always takes a while). Everyone in my writing group seemed to really like it. Next [...]

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recipe sought

I need to find a good, quick and easy Squash Curry recipe. I’ve never made it before, and my writing group was okay with me making something new for them tomorrow night. I don’t even know what makes a good Squash Curry recipe- I just know I love Squash Curry.
allrecipes.com was a disappointment. The closest [...]

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road slush

On our way home from an entire afternoon of shopping and errands, we stopped to pick up beer (shopping makes me cranky, and if I am going to get some actual work done today I will need the beer).
I’m a fan of New Glarus beer, and just as I was going to buy my usual [...]

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a little boring for you

What are the two most boring things to blog about?
(1) The weather.
(2) Dreams.
So here's a post about both b/c the other details of my life right now would be even more boring, trust me.
Weather: It is damn cold here. I mean really damn cold. -12 to be exact, and that doesn't even include windchill. We [...]

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rights? benefits? no way.

I got an email today from the TAA (the grad student union at UW). Usually (I am a terrible, lazy progressive) I delete 8 out of 10 of these emails. Tonight I decided to read it.
Instantly, the mention of dental benefits peaked my interest. I have a loose crown that I will probably need replaced [...]

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freakin’ finally

Finally we found an excellent restaurant in Madison! Yeah, yeah we tried Cafe Magnus a couple years ago and liked it (Jo liked it, there wasn’t much in the way of vegetarian for for me). And I’ve heard good things about Harvest (another with mostly salads for vegetarians). I know people who rave about L’Etoile, [...]

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sick day

I just emailed in sick to work and cancelled a meeting. Yesterday I worked all day with a killer headache. I got a surprising amount of work done, but then crashed as soon as I got home and didn’t finish my own work like I had planned. I almost felt like I was getting the [...]

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name dropping

My sister thinks my blog would be much cooler if I name-dropped that I went to Hofstra with this person. Yes, that’s right folks. Leslie from TLC’s While You Were Out. Wow. We did a couple summers of carpentry in summer stock theatre together, and we did other crazy, and mostly illegal things together as [...]

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coming full circle

I started out my undergrad life as a gung-ho theatre design major– lighting design, to be specific. I was never super serious about academic stuff (this is true of high school and my first couple years of college). I lived and breathed theatre day and night. Falling asleep at night I was likely to mull [...]

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specificity

I got my hair cut today and I don’t really like it. Well, it isn’t that I hate it per se, I just don’t love it. I told her to cut it shorter and more layered than usual, and she did, but I guess I wasn’t really specific enough. Oh well. It will grow.
I have [...]

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on common sense

Okay so I can’t help blogging for the 3rd time today. I swear I am getting work done tonight too. It might not seem like it. I am just multitasking work and websurfing very well.
Check out this charming amazon.com list!

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did I mention I generally dislike poetry?

But, I couldn’t resist trying out the poetry generator on birdfarm. Even though I generally dislike poetry, this was just kind of interesting…
37 cruise ships generally overwhelmed with a football game.
They are curious.
After the thickest
place in the
rainforest all through a killer
headache.
It was in a funeral.
I am
leaving for data recovery
is hard to be under
daily life,
Ugh. [...]

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this is wicked true

Wow. Well over 90% of this “You know you’re from Maine when…” is right on. Oh, now I’m feeling a little homesick…

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momentum

I’m up late (late for me, anyway) trying to sift through Habermas. There is too much to do. Too much to read. I am not even tired tonight. Moments after posting about grad school as boot camp last night, I fell asleep and dreamt of being stuck on a little piece of rocky land in [...]

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boot camp

Sometimes grad school seems like boot camp. I don’t mean to sound downtrodden b/c I really don’t feel that terrible. I am just making an observation that sometimes it is really like boot camp. You work and work and work (and work) and then make a little progress, and then that progress is tied to [...]

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Monday *yawn*

Now it finally feels like the semester is in full swing. I spent all weekend dog sitting and (the better part of 3 days) writing a 10 page literature review for my reading/writing group tonight. I emailed it around 4pm yesterday and I can already think about things I might have done differently. When did [...]

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a new blog!

my brother (aka “the mixer”) has a blog! he’s a dork, so you should check it out!

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Puerto Rico II- El Yunque

Here is the promised part 2 of my PR trip (part 1 is here).
I am not usually the kind of tourist who likes to go on tours (well, there are exceptions- like the “alleyways, apparitions and ale” tour we took in London). Usually, I am fine with a guidebook and walking around on my own [...]

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Friday Fours

Since Birdfarm tagged anyone who reads her blog, here goes…
Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
1. walmart cashier
2. bookseller (3 different bookstores)
3. community relations coordinator (Borders)
4. library aid/shelver/shelf-reader (high school)
Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. The Sound of Music
2. A Christmas Story
3. Magnolia
4. The Neverending Story
Four books I could read over and over:
1. [...]

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Puerto Rico I

Well, its about time that I posted more details and pics about my trip to San Juan.
Thursday: S. picked me up amazingly on time at 1:50am. I had slept for about 3 hours. We picked up the others, and headed to Chicago. They learned that I talk a lot when I am tired. Their flight [...]

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