Got chewed out by the university president today. Let me tell you, that just ain’t pleasant (despite what you may have been thinking). Yep, got an earful of, “I’d think after ten years you people would know how to do this.” The podium wasn’t in place for his impromptu speech at a luncheon. This wasn’t [...]

I sliced the tip of my left index finger off tonight while cooking dinner. I realize some will take this as proof of my incompetence as a wife, and to that I say, “Bah!” I’m now getting a lesson in pain, bleeding, and self-sticking tapegauze.

I hear the verbal section of the GRE this year included lots of words whose meanings were things like “to lie” and “difficult to comprehend.” Ah, those brainy folks at the GRE — having a laugh at cheaters and nitwits among us.

I don’t usually do this, because, you know, I’m not Dan and I don’t want my blog to just be a bunch of links to stuff I find interesting. I’d rather actually share my opinion. But this article on Salon about the San Francisco mayoral is just so good. It helped me understand why I [...]

Desperate for talk radio on Monday, while driving around running errands on my day off, I turned on Rush Limbaugh’s program. He wasn’t there, of course, and Roger Hedgecock was sitting in for him. I listened. I really tried. I withstood about 10 minutes of it, but the tone of it was viscerally upsetting to [...]

Rode on the team plane this weekend, to throw an alumni pregame beforehand. The location was remote enough that riding the team plane for free was a much better (budget) option than purchasing two commercial tickets at over $500 apiece for two staff people. Disastrous. Cramped. Awful. On the bus from campus to the airport, [...]

Went to see Graham Colton perform at the Engine Room last night. They were the guys that opened for Counting Crows and John Mayer when we saw them in August. A good time was not had by all, and we left in the middle of Graham’s set, not because they were bad — not at [...]

When did it become OK — nay, one might even say “cool” — to be a geek? This is a particularly weird trend, in my humble, geeked-out opinion. It seems geek culture is everywhere you turn. Thanks to Matt, I now know that GQ did a whole article on Geek Chic this fall. There are [...]

How fun! Alicia just asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. Yay! Good thing I saved those (really depressing) measurements from my sister’s bridesmaid dress.

It’s Yom Kippur; Albert and I are curled up in bed. Dan and I should be going to services, but we don’t have anywhere to go. Barring that, I should be at work today, because this week kicks off a very busy month and a half for me, including half-a-dozen trips around Texas and the [...]