I got accepted to grad school.
Starting this fall, I’ll be taking classes part-time towards an MPA.
How the hell am I going to pay for this?
Where am I going to find the time for this?
Whose idea was this again?
Oh my God, though, this means I get to get GRADED again. Please understand that I love being [...]
Archive for January, 2007
smartypants
Posted in Uncategorized on 29 January 2007 | 7 Comments »
heart throb
Posted in Uncategorized on 24 January 2007 | 5 Comments »
It pains me to admit that I am an absolute sucker for an good gothic romance novel.
I grew up in a crumbling old Victorian house that was left to us by my great aunt, including all of her wonderfully moldering possessions. Amid the decorated blown egg shells and staffordshire china was one carefully preserved shelf [...]
as an artist
Posted in Uncategorized on 20 January 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was just looking over some of my Flickr photos and I came across this, from my last trip to Vermont.
There was this little hidden garden of porcelain figurines on the side of the road. It was both adorable and disturbing.
Which is, after all, the very best kind of adorable.
On reflection, I guess I was [...]
of babies and biological clocks
Posted in Uncategorized on 14 January 2007 | 1 Comment »
It should come as no great surprise, what with all the baby-having going on around me, that I should reflect on my personal role in the chain of life, procreation, and continuing the family name.
My position is the same as it always has been: profoundly ambivalent. I could honestly go either way. And my position [...]
population growth
Posted in Uncategorized on 14 January 2007 | 2 Comments »
OK so today was baby day!
I was on my way to a birthday party for one baby (my one-year-old niece) when my phone rings. It’s my best friend, and I have been waiting for this call all week.
She had a baby! On Wednesday!
I got surprisingly emotional when she told me (I cried), but I think [...]
Couch it up, Couchy McCoucherton
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 January 2007 | 3 Comments »
A three-day weekend and not a moment too soon. I’m a little cross-eyed from all the running around and doing eleventy-five things at once, so I am hermiting it hard tonight.
Going back to my old ways of drawing the blinds and curling up with some schlocky TV and a pile of neglected knitting and [...]
Mrs. Astor
Posted in Uncategorized on 7 January 2007 | 2 Comments »
I went to a very nice party last night.
OK, I kind of threw a very nice party last night, all modesty aside. I was, as always, alarmingly underfunded in the wardrobe department for such an event, and as always had left it until the very last possible minute to correct the situation, so I went [...]
