Hello all...  So for those of you I haven't contacted and/or seen at our reunion...  I am currently pregnant... Surprise!

If you'd like to see pictures of the wee little one (and my big ol' belly), you can find them at...
www.jem32.blogspot.com

I am basically now done with graduate school.  I have a few minor edits to make to the thesis and then it will be official.  It feels very strange to be so close to the end.  Particularly so because I have no clue what employment I have for the fall.  I have prospects, but nothing confirmed.  If nothing else, I can defer graduation and teach here ( Read more... )

An Ode to Panty Hose Nude is their color
but no color of my naked flesh.
Trying to be invisible
but needed to be seen.

Endless scrunching
and the first foot is in.
Now the contortionist act begins.
How am I now to get my foot in the other leg?
With some bending and twisting,
my leg dislocates but is now in the panty hose.

Either these were made ( Read more... )

I found this beautiful and inspiring.  It is Obama's "closing speech" for the election. 

Oh my god...  this is so me.  PhD comics...  are you spying on my life?

Sarah Palin and John McCain along with their campaigns have introduced and encouraged the country in establishing several new dirty little words.

Arab-  People are claiming that Senator Obama is an Arab as though this disqualifies him from being president.  Last time I checked American born Arabs have all the rights to run for president that ( Read more... )

I don't understand how it is that the first day of school magically turns into fall.  Monday it was 91 outside and Tuesday (when classes started) it was 71.  Today definitely feels like fall ( Read more... )

Mike and I have now been dating for a decade.  More than a third of our lives spent together*.    And still happy.

*Together here being more metaphorical than physical as 6 of the ten years were long distance.

Mike and I took a rode trip to New York to visit my brother.  Nothing like deciding to take a road trip when gas is $4.00 a gallon.  Ugh!  Anyway we stopped at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on the way.  It was an awesome amusement park.  If you like amusement parks, it is the place to go!  Mike's been talking about going for almost as long as I've ( Read more... )

People make me crazy. Especially people that send you forwards. I wonder if I sent out an e-mail to the people that send me forwards that said President Bush just passed a bill to remove gullible from the dictionary, whether they would pass it on to "everyone in their addressbook". I hate to break it to you guys, but Mars will not be the closest ( Read more... )