So, I was supposed to go to "Corset Karaoke" tonight--friends had arranged an outing to country karaoke at a dive bar, and everyone was going to wear corsets or other sexy wear and be fabulous.  I was looking forward to it.

I had lunch today with several friends, the five of us going to the southern women writer's conference in September, so ( Read more... )

Apparently, "summer vacation" is just meaningless for me ( Read more... )

After my whirlwind tour of Ohio, I started my job in Special Collections today. It was quite a relief to do grunt work, lifting boxes and filing things.  Starting Wednesday, Special Collections starts its move to the main library building; at that point, I'll work Monday through Wednesday, 12-5, loading books onto carts. It's a nice change ( Read more... )

Well, you know, and then a phd program ( Read more... )

For those playing at home, I came up with the clever title part for my fairy paper: Fairy Elves by the Forest Side.  It's a quote from Paradise Lost; I figure you can't get much more English major-y than Milton.  So, that proposal is sent.

My Cold Mountain paper went well.  Pretty much everyone at this conference just read their papers, so I, too, ( Read more... )

Here's the abstract I want to submit to the Southern Women Writers conference--but, I'd like to have a clever title to put with a colon before the descriptive title.  Any ideas?

Lee Smith’s Use of Fairies in On Agate Hill as a Connection to the Global South

As part of the heterogeneous South, Appalachia’s existence as both a part of as well as ( Read more... )

I am home, fed,and bathed.  What a weekend!

Thursday morning, the rental car people picked me up at 8:30; I was on the road by nine.  There's really no direct route between here and Portsmouth, Ohio; Mark did a lovely job of tracing me out a route.  It took me five hours to get there; it's right next to the river on the Ohio side, in Southeastern ( Read more... )

It took my five hours to get from Knoxville to Portsmouth today--I left a little after nine, and got here at 2:30.  There were a good three hours in the middle which were absolutely in the middle of nowhere--I started contemplating strategies of "what if my car breaks down here?' towards the end of that.  However, I have a lovely rented Saturn ( ( Read more... )

Is here, finally.  My to-do list for the week does exist, but it includes some much-needed break-time.  Friday night, I played cranium with some friends, which was a lot of fun.  I'm quite good at drawing with my eyes closed.  Saturday night, Rebecca came over and I introduced her to the wonder that is Pretty in Pink (which apparently seems to be ( Read more... )

I have a Facebook friend who keeps posting the Bible verse, "Love bears all things."  I keep misreading it as "Love bares all things," which is a very different idea.