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Meme - Movies
What? You wanted a real entry from me?
Got this from lillibet
Below is Entertainment Weekly's list of 100 Classic Movies of the past 25 years.
Bold the ones you've seen, underline the ones you plan to.
*I've only counted movies that I actually sat and watched all the way through. As idahoev knows, I have a habit of watching them in bits and pieces on TV or ( Read more... ) -
Back in California
After two days in the U-Haul truck, I am back home. (Well, not quite my home yet, but home in all the ways that count. I get back into my own place in another week.) I can't believe the weather. It had gotten really hot and humid in Austin. It's so nice to be back on the West Coast ( Read more... ) -
I like book memes
Taken from lillibet106 books most often listed on LibraryThing* as "unread ( Read more... ) -
Wildlife
The place I'm renting has kind of an overgrown jungle feeling to the back yard. Well, actually to the whole property. There is no lawn, just a lot of trees and ivy and ground cover plants (and some flowers) that all grow without attention. I guess this is what zero-scaping looks like in Austin ( Read more... ) -
Careers Meme
From lillibet1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/Read more... ) -
Settling In
I have an office! Yay. It's really quite amazing how much that helps. I also have a computer in my office, which means I don't have to haul mine back and forth to campus. I am slowing getting some routines established, although I still feel like I'm racing to keep up. Hopefully this will start to settle too ( Read more... ) -
One place to call home
It's starting to sink in that here in Austin, I have one place to live, and I'm actually going to be spending a lot of time in the place where I'm paying rent. Last year, I was teaching in Long Beach and staying two nights a week with a very generous friend. Although I paid rent on a place in Pasadena, I was usually there one, maybe two nights a ( Read more... ) -
An itinerant scholar
Well, ok, not quite, since I'll be in Austin for the entire school year. I'm teaching at the University of Texas at Austin this year as part-time (unfortunately) lecturer. The department of Theatre and Dance needed someone to teach Dance History and one other course (upper-division topics course - of my creation) each semester. Sadly they couldn ( Read more... ) -
Flying Cockroaches
Cockroaches anywhere are not a pleasant thing. Here in Austin, they're bigger than the ones I've seen in California. I met my first one today. It was in my car. I was driving. *Shudder* I was stopped at a stoplight at the time, and I actually put the car in park and jumped out momentarily. It was crawling across the floor on the passenger ( Read more... ) -
Don't Mess with Texas
Yes, that's what the no littering along the highway signs said on the drive here. I've arrived safely in Austin, TX. idahoev made the drive with me (ok, he did most of the driving). My car was ridiculously loaded down with stuff - the trunk, up to the ceiling in the backseat, the car carrier on top, and the bike on a rack on the trunk ( Read more... )