I have returned Friday July 23 2010
I am back from my cross-country road trip! I promised that I would update my blog along the way, and even brought my computer with me to do so, but never had the time at the end of our long days to post. Now that the trip is over, I feel overwhelmed by the task [...]
Weekend in Hiawassee, Plus: Reflections on July 4th, 2008 Tuesday July 6 2010
This weekend, Mike and I took a trip up to Hiawassee to spend a few days together before I head out of town for two weeks without him. (My parents and brother and I are going on a road trip through some of the national parks out west, starting tomorrow!) An additional purpose for the [...]
Goodbye, June Wednesday June 30 2010
Well, the month of June ends in 36 minutes, so I’d better give at least some blog attention to the positive occurrences of this month, before it’s too late! First of all, early this month my friends Skull and Bone Band had a CD release party at one of Tampa’s best music venues, Skipper’s Smokehouse. [...]
Whoops! Wednesday June 9 2010
As long as no one gets hurt and the only thing at stake is property damage (small potatoes when you look at the big picture), I think that in the world of car wrecks, it is far better to be the Crashed Into than the One Doing The Crashing. Luckily, that was the situation yesterday [...]
I finished grad school. Thursday May 27 2010
Oh right: I graduated! On one hand, it doesn’t really feel like anything has changed. On the other hand, my lifestyle these days basically involves four components: babysitting, reading books for fun, applying for jobs, and calculating how long it will take before my student loan money runs out. It is the paradise I imagined [...]
Wanee Festival 2010 Friday April 23 2010
Most of the family vacations we went on in my youth were camping trips. My parents, my brother, my dad’s parents, and I traveled all around the Southeast together during my first decade of life. I was so little that my memories are not specific stories, but more indistinct collections of sights and feelings and [...]
Finger Foam Wednesday April 7 2010
Well, I finished comps. And I passed! I can hardly believe that it’s true! Hooray! But before we talk any more about that, I have a really important question to ask you. What do you call this stuff? You know, the foam material that is most often used as a mattress enhancer, or — best [...]
Happy Birthday Tuesday March 9 2010
Well, it’s March 9 again, so that means… Happy Birthday to two of my favorite guys! First comes my brother, Greg, who turns 23 today. Then comes my boyfriend, Mike, who turns 27 today. Both of them fill my life up with so much happiness that I can hardly stand it! So, Happy Birthday, Mike [...]
The Best Valentine’s Day Ever Monday February 15 2010
For Valentine’s Day, Mike took me to a Civil War battle reenactment. If I did not know that he loved me before, I know it for sure now! Let me start by saying that normally, I am much more interested in the twentieth century than the nineteenth, and military history is not exactly something I [...]
Fear of Comps Monday February 8 2010
Like many people, my biggest fear used to be death. This is a healthy and productive fear, I think, because it is not in the best interest of our species for us to be knocking off at a young age before we have time to reproduce. Also, nothing else terrifying was realistically on the horizon. [...]