Where I’ve been

Jeez, I can’t believe it’s been 2 weeks since my last post. Last week at this time I was in Savannah for the SWS Winter Meeting. I was in Savannah for 5 days and with all the travel prep before that (doing laundry and packing at the last meeting) and then getting caught up on [...]

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… and sometimes I just go looking for a way to stress about the job market…

Let me first say this: I’ve turned in 98% of my applications. I’m not super worried– maybe it’s denial– but I’m not loosing sleep. I’m just digging in and focusing as much as I can on my dissertation. Writing has become a blessing/distraction/refuge. All I want to do is write. Even when it is hard. [...]

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an apple a day…

As promised, here are some pictures from apple picking yesterday!
It was a beautiful day– despite the fact I think it is way too warm to be October. I would have prefered to wear a cardigan and scarf, but instead I decided it might be the last day I could wear my keen sandals. Oh well!
We [...]

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I’m ready for cardigan weather already

It seems that most people relish the sun and the heat, but they both mostly bother me. I love a bright sunny day– but only when I have sunscreen (I burn way too easily). And heat just makes me feel sick. Humidity is even worse. I appreciate some things about summer (days when it is [...]

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flickr meme

Marlena did this great visual meme, and I just had to waste some time playing along.
Interestingly, I ended up with one of Marlena’s photos– of graffiti outside our old high school. And I had forgotten all about that local band of high school guys (Minor Ninth)…
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions [...]

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remembering the little things

Sometimes it helps to think of the big picture and sometimes it helps to focus on the small details. It’s hard to know when to do what. Sometimes thinking of the big picture (i.e. job market) means waking up at 4am for three mornings in a row worrying in a ridiculous way about how to [...]

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birthday weekend

This past weekend was wonderful for a bunch of reasons. Saturday was my 31st birthday, and I spent it watching movies and hanging out at home (not checking my email and not writing or surfing the web). That night we went out to dinner with a bunch of great people– Irish food and lots of [...]

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Las Vegas (3) (yes, I’m still here!)

The very long time it’s taken me to finish telling you about my trip to Vegas is the result of the fact I was sick as a dog this past week.
Nope, scratch that. I don’t like the phrase “sick as a dog.” Where does it come from anyway? And I definitely wouldn’t want any dog [...]

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Las Vegas (2)

Saturday evening I had the choice of either going back out to the strip again, or heading with out some local students for good Mediterranean food and to the older downtown Las Vegas. I quickly chose the latter. I had seriously had enough of the strip for the day.
After a wonderful dinner (the only down [...]

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Las Vegas (1)

Sorry for the long absence while I was in Las Vegas! The conference was insanely busy– more so than usual as I had executive meetings to go to– and there wasn’t even free Internet in our hotel room to take advantage of at night! So I’ve just spent the better part of the evening catching [...]

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from Maine

I’ve been in Maine for 3 days and so far I’ve eaten a ton of yummy food, shopped at L.L. Bean*, shopped downtown Bath, received some wonderful Christmas presents,** given a bunch of loved handmade presents, slept about 30 hours, and haven’t done any work at all. It’s been lovely. And although I have some [...]

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jinxing myself

So I guess with all my revelry about accomplishments in the last post, I might have jinxed myself out of getting any kind of work done this weekend.
I had two tiny (well, relatively tiny) things I wanted to do and I finished neither of them. Instead, I watched movies, cleaned out the hall closet, [...]

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sheeple people

I’m not really into taking pictures of people. I’m not very good at it. And I just don’t have the guts to take pictures of strangers without (or even with) their permission.
But sheep? That’s a different story.
We went to New Glarus yesterday. It was cold and gray, but the perfect day to go to Rainbow [...]

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the arboretum

We spent part of the day at the arboretum. It was lovely, even if we could hear the badger game off in the distance. It took hundreds of photos… here is a slideshow of some of my favorites…

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the very next day

I adore this time of year. I wish fall lasted longer, but I also look forward to the snow. So I’ve been enjoying both the cold gray rainy days we’ve had, and the bright sunny ones where the trees glow orange, red, and yellow. Yesterday a perfect sunny fall day so I took a walk [...]

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inspired

This summer I wasn’t really into take photos. Summer in Madison doesn’t do much for me in terms of inspiration for photos, so other than taking photos of friends and NYC, I didn’t just didn’t take many.
But, yesterday on my way to writing group I was compelled to follow the gorgeous autumn sunlight and drive [...]

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Finland trip: pictures!

When I went to sleep last night it was snowing. My hostel is on the top floor of a building, and I could see the snow piling up on the roofs outside during the night.
Well somehow when I woke up this morning it was sunny. I left the hostel to find coffee and couldn’t find [...]

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New Orleans 4: Plantation tour & live oak trees

Ever since going to Atlanta for a conference a few years ago, and never seeing more than a few blocks outside the hotel, I’ve tried to include some kind of adventure into every trip.
So while in New Orleans we decided to take a plantation tour– an organized tour that would drive us out of the [...]

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New Orleans 3: Food & Festivities

One of the best things about New Orleans is the food. Seriously, this has to be one of the only places I have ever travelled where every single meal was amazing. So amazing, none of us could stop raving about the food through the whole meal.
The first afternoon we were there we went to the [...]

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New Orleans 2: pictures = thousands of words

The conference organizers, and other New Orleaners were very insistant that we see what is left of their city. We got a recommendation for a local cab driver who would take us on a tour. Nikki was incredible. He showed us everything– the 9th Ward, the different places the levees breeched, the places where the [...]

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snow day

Yesterday was an unofficial snow day. My original plan for the day was to get some writing done. It was snowing beautifully out– the perfect kind of day to drink tea, write, and watch the snow from office window. I spent the entire morning on the phone with my ISP trying to get the internet [...]

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potential

So I have been messing around a lot with my blog’s template. I can’t decide on a look, or on what picture to use at the top. What I have now is okay, but not exactly perfect. It is very trivial, but I can’t make up my mind about it.

This is the abandoned house I [...]

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catching up: the weekend

So I’m finally sitting down to catch up on blogging. My last post (this one) I realized just this morning I only saved as a draft, instead of actually publishing it. No wonder why my IM conversations with my sister have consisted of her typing: “NO BLOG??”
Now I’m into another busy week- but this weekend [...]

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another real weekend

So after finishing that article draft and emailing it off, I've been enjoying another real weekend. I did manage to read a few articles out by the creek, and made some notes. I find the stack of books I want to read before my next dissertation proposal draft slightly overwhelming, but I do have to [...]

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rusty

My sister (maybe the only one who reads my blog, despite the 90+ returning visitors I have?) is miffed because I haven't posted since Sunday.
So here is my post. My week has been mostly non-blog inspiring. Work. The high point of the week was dinner with friends that we hadn't seen in ages last night [...]

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a growing addiction

I signed up for flickr when I got my new camera because I wanted a place (other than photobucket I have been using for years) to put my pictures where I could share them with friends and family. I also have a lot of family photos that were hiding on my computer and I love [...]

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oh dear

Yesterday I developed a severe addiction to flickr. It isn't a terrible addiction to have, but it does have a tendency to suck up hours of time (hours of time that I don't really have).
And it is already Thursday. The weeks this semester just fly by. Starting tomorrow I have a couple deadlines to deal [...]

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new camera

Here are some pictures from the most wonderful b-day present ever- my new digital/SLR camera!

Spring!

Playing around with the color accent feature- I was bored waiting at the bus stop after missing a couple buses.

Finally on the bus- again, with the color accent feature.

Trying out the zoom function on a rainy day.

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late night abandoned surfing

This week I have been staying up very late. Last night I was up late messing around with some coding for my masters thesis. Something that I read in an article I was coding somehow reminded me of King’s Park Pyschiatric Hospital. The hospital opened in the late 1800s and was one of the largest [...]

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what are you doing instead of working today?

Well… I am getting a lot of work done. But, I just took a detour to check out some photo blogs. The 2nd two photos on bighappyfunhouse are freaking me out a bit. Especially that 2nd photo- what the hell? And the bunny photo reminds me of that great movie “Donny Darko”.
Following some links [...]

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