The little bulldog is coming on two years old in a few weeks and considering he’s a rescue from an unknown provenance (other than “somewhere in Kansas”) he has turned out to be a pretty good doggo. He’s attached to me in a way that is kind of ridiculous and adorable — he sits under […]
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I have been heads down in the penultimate semester of my doctoral studies — well, maybe it’s the penultimate semester but more on that in a bit. I did a few things that are kind of counter-intuitive, and if you know me, probably kind of self-damaging. First, for creative writing dissertations, the generally approved plan […]
Saturday, January 13, 2018
We’re coming on the end of a full month-long visit with Esteban’s parents, Ward and June. We never adult very well and they teach us to become better adults. As houseguests go, they basically are like boy scouts — they taken only memories, they pack out their garbage and try to leave the land better […]
Thursday, December 21, 2017
The semester is done! Oh my god, the semester is done! The week of finals was oddly really stressful. I had to write a giant paper on Jane Austen (I’m not joking, it ended up being 27 pages and only because I sort of cheated and didn’t double space the block quotes, otherwise it would […]
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
I have been so stressed that I could weep. I have been researching a term paper on Jane Austen for the last three months and over the weekend, I banged it out — over 10,000 words because apparently I don’t know how to rein it in at all. The worst part is that I […]
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Fridays are always light days at school. The biggest “work” stress in my life right now is the problem of finding a place to park on campus, but since there aren’t a lot of classes scheduled for Friday, the parking ramp that I use does not fill up, so I’m usually not in a super […]
My car is toast. An 8000 lb paper weight. Well, no, it’s still plugging along, trying its little heart to please me. I always thought of it as a scrappy little dog, wagging its tail, ready to go on the next adventure, barrel through the next plow berm, load up the boot with the next […]
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Thursdays are a tough day for me. I leave the house at 8 am straight up and don’t walk back into the house until around 8 pm. I have office hours for my students plus two classes on Thursday. One of those classes is my lovely Jane Austen class, where we totally nerd out in […]
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Our Thanksgiving was a bit of a strange one — it is warm enough to have windows open and of course, no snow on the ground. Apparently it’s been a warm one in Wisconsin as well, so that really shouldn’t feel weird, but I don’t think I’ve ever cooked Thanksgiving dinner in cropped yoga […]
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
In my past life as a grad student, my class (because I still worked at my full time job so I could only manage to fit one class per semester into my life) was something I did one day a week. I drove to and from school, which was 120 miles from my home, in […]
