What Now?
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- Exhaustion and eavesdropping
I'm sooooo tired. D. and I had a crazy weekend of flying across the country and back in three days so that we could be back in Grad School City for a family function. I'm really glad we went --... - Wow (and Crap!)
Here's how powerful blogging the lost is: I woke up this morning in a panic about our taxes and decided to buckle down today and start working on them. But I couldn't find last year's taxes anywhere! Not in the... - Call for historical fiction recommendations
Okay, you fans of historical novels out there: help me out! I've been reading in the history of 16th- and 17th-century England, especially along the lines of the Reformation, the English Civil War, the ups and down of the monarchy,... - Extroversion and a glass of wine
I'm drinking a glass of wine at 4:00, which is clearly breaking that 5:00 rule. But then again, I also just had dinner, which may be a mitigating factor. Clearly my normal schedule is way off! I was up at... - 10 weird things about me
Jane tagged me, so here goes: 1. I have mafia anxieties. The most common one is that I'm in a traffic accident with someone who's related to a mafia don, and the don decides to have me whacked because of... - Keeping options open
There are several obstacles in my ongoing career discernment, one of which is that I revisit earlier decisions and sometimes change my mind. In January, I went to an open house at the one ALA-accredited library science program in the... - Rockin' poem
I've never been a particular fan of W. H. Auden's; I read him as an undergrad and wasn't grabbed, and somehow he and I have never made it past that first awkard meeting. But today in church we sang a... - I am once again of good cheer
My sadness and mopeyness of yesterday did not last very long, and the world is looking pretty good again. Among other cures, I actually said something to the flower-assigner of yesterday. I tried to keep it light and not passive-aggressive,... - Thorny and sad
In a moment of weakness this winter, I agreed to be part of a group project, in which a handful of volunteers coordinated a small series of minor events -- really not a big deal, although I found a little... - Anglican brouhaha, masterful rhetoric, and ethical quandaries
I'm not sure to what extent non-Anglicans are following the latest hubbub in the Anglican Communion, but certainly D. and I were both glued to the internet on Monday as news releases and communiqés and recommendations were coming out of...
