Dear Allergies, I’d forgotten how truly delightful you are. I cannot express my thanks at your return so that I can remember with clarity the subtle beauties of your character. How could I forget how fun it is to have constantly watering eyes? I particularly like it when my co-workers or classmates ask me a question and I look up…
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Third Quarter Reading 2008
I read 37 books this quarter, putting my year-to-date total at 112. I’ve gotta admit, I’m feeling pretty good about myself today. The Redheaded Princess – Ann Rinaldi Pretty good biography about Queen Elizabeth’s youth. Plus, I love Ann Rinaldi. Slipping – Cathleen Davitt Bell Kind of time-traveley, touchy-feeling family book. For boys. Yes, it was a bit strange….
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Probably the Worst Pictures I’ve Ever Taken
The birthday spoils, two weeks after the fact. (By the way, whenever I post something like this, I’m always convinced that this is the day that one of my former professors will Google me and think to themselves “hmm, she wrote some really lovely papers on the Communist Revolution in my class; must have been a fluke, since she now…
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How NOT to be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler
Remember how last year I rambled on and on about the Texas Book Festival? (What’s that? You’ve completely blocked it from your mind?) This month they finally posted the list of authors who will be coming in November and so I’ve made myself a giant list of all the books I want to read before it comes. How Not to…
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Reasons Why Life Is Lovely
1) Today I answered my first question as a TA without desperately IMing the other TAs online and without frantically Googling “where does the footer go in XHTML?” It was pretty much the highlight of my week – I talked about XHTML Doc Structure, linking to CSS style sheets, title tags, and editing web pages with Pico. I definitely deserve…
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