I recently started taking minutes for two different committees at work. I take notes by hand at the meetings and then try to synthesize them into some kind of coherent document. One committee is headed by a director and one by a dean. The director marked my first minutes all up with tons of changes. The dean made a few minor changes and told me ( Read more... )

My recent fascination with 19th-century English literature has brought about a similar fascination with all things 19-century and English. One thing leads to another. Today I am trying to figure out a purpose for having a tea party. I've been a tea fan a lot longer than I've been a fan of 19th-c England, but they go together very nicely. I don' ( Read more... )

Friday evening at 8:40 pm, a single-engine Cessna airplane crashed at the corner of Ocala Rd. and Tennessee St. in Tallahassee. It's a very busy intersection (a four lane road crossing the main drag's six lanes) about a mile west of FSU campus, but only one person was injured - the pilot (he was carrying no passengers). Somehow he managed to land ( Read more... )

OK, I just finished watching the fourth installment of my obsession with finding a good film adaptation of Jane Eyre and I think my search may have come to an end. It was the 2006 Masterpiece Theatre version with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens (Thanks for the recommendation, kitashla!!!). I loved it! I want to go buy it right now! I'll have to ( Read more... )

Mitt Romney looks like Guy Smiley.

I am finally mostly well. I left work early Thursday and stayed home on Friday. I slept pretty much all of that time. I woke up a few times to eat, shower and take Ny-Quil, but otherwise I slept, and it did me much good. After three weeks I am finally feeling human again. Yay!

Gypsy Cold Care is the shit. It's an herb tea by Traditional ( Read more... )

I returned to work last Friday, but didn't make it through the day. By the middle of Act II Friday night, no sound would come out of my mouth. I went to the doc Saturday and was told that I have some virus that will last two weeks or so and that the cough would stick around for at least 2 weeks after that. Yuck! So I missed the last two ( Read more... )

Opening night for The Sweet Smell of Success is in 4 days. It will be my first time onstage in 8 years. I'm really more like part of the orchestra, as a member of a vocal ensemble, but the orchestra is onstage, so I am too ( Read more... )

I saw Sweeney Todd and loved it! More bloody than I would normally tolerate in a movie, but I was involved in a stage production of the musical as a kid, so I was ready for it.

I got to spend a little time with my itty-bitty nephew on Saturday. He's about 2 months old now and he is so freakin' cute! My sister made him an elf hat (red and green felt with a jingle bell at the tip!) and we put him in it while he was screaming to be fed. It was so hilarious. Sis says she feels a little bad about it but that she thinks he' ( Read more... )