Oh glorious sleeping in and vacation days! I ran by Target, where I had printed a couple of pictures from yesterday at my sister’s, as well as a couple of my graduation pictures. I stuck the one of my sister and her husband in front of their tree onto the front of a “photo card” … Read more
I was up and at ’em early this morning, as I had (too much) running around to do before graduation at 1:30 today. I ran by the church in which we were graduating to make sure I knew where it was for later today, to scope out the parking situation around it, and to be … Read more
Oh glorious sleep! I had a totally lazy day today, catching up my blog entries from Thursday and Friday, and running a couple of loads through the dishwasher to incrementally clean up from the party. We only had five dancers tonight, including Rick, Herman, Carl, Michael, and myself. Herman only knows a couple of dances, … Read more
I worked on my final paper for Rhetoric of Science and Technology today, and was pleasantly surprised by how it progressed. Before I knew it, it was 4:30, and time to shower and head to class. Our penultimate Rhetoric of Science and Technology class was good tonight. Both Andrews presented, as well as Lindsay and … Read more
Today is World AIDS Day. Hugs to my beautiful friend Adam who died in August of 2002. I spent the majority of the day holed up in the NCSU campus library, where I had hoped to get a key to one of the two Graduate Student Study Rooms, but both of them were booked all … Read more
One of my recent favorites from indexed blog: As Hugh over at Bible Versus says: Dolly Parton. And Amy Sedaris. Perfection. I had intended to go pick up my new glasses today, but since I want to go into the office tomorrow anyway, I decided to wait and get them then—seeing how my eye doctor’s … Read more
Even though I’ll be under a tremendous amount of pressure over the next three weeks, I’m loving my life right now, and particularly today for some reason. I filled out five cards this morning, and dropped three off at the post office on the way to Helios. In line at Helios behind a North Raleigh Stepford … Read more
I was up at 4:15 and served Irene breakfast consisting of coffee, a hard-boiled egg, a sausage patty, and an English muffin. I dropped her off at the United curbside check-in at 5:35 for her 6:15 flight. Since I was so close to the office, I stopped by IBM, where I converted my Rhetoric and … Read more
Power Issues Yesterday, my computer (desktop machine) started turning off about four seconds after pushing the on button. The fan and all that noise started for about four seconds, and then it just powered itself off. I took off the cover, vacuumed the hell out of the inside of it, the vents in the covers, and … Read more
Thanks to my friend and regular blog reader, Kathy, for the little ditty below. While I’ve often seen the use of home-going in the obits—“Home-going services for Emma will be held on Friday, February 27, 2004”—I’ve never seen one enumerate the entire guest list, so-to-speak: On Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007, heaven opened its gates and welcomed … Read more