You know, I was the girl who rolled her eyes at the brother glued to A.I.M. in high school, who refused to join Match.com even when her friends were all meeting men that way, who glorifies person-to-person interaction.  But I'm also the girl who has had a computer her entire life, who manages to date a boyfriend for over a year at a very long ( Read more... )

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- What I create will be just for you.
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- You will receive your item before the end of the year (or sooner).
- You will have no clue what the item is ( Read more... )

1) Continue to exercise at least 3 times a week
2) Resume writing my novel and finish it by fall
3) Invest myself deeply in whichever graduate program I pursue (well, assuming that one of them works out)
4) Eat out less than this year - no more than one dinner and one "quick meal" a week.
5) Grade more immediately and with better focus

 - Put your music player on shuffle.
- Post a lyric from the first 25 songs that play. No skipping songs!
- Tag your friends so they can guess which lyrics come from which songs.
- Strike each lyric out when someone guesses it correctly, and label who guessed it.

1) "I don't know what else to say, but I think you get it..."
2) "Slow it down some, and ( Read more... )

A few days earlier this year, I proffer one of my favorite traditions, now the sixth year running. My old responses are housed online also: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003.

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Toured the west coast.  Completed a year of teaching.  Rented a car.    Moved into an apartment with someone with ( Read more... )

First snow fell last night while Steve, Eric and I peered through the windows at the Top of the East, seeing three sides' view of our city in their December splendor. Annually, first snow means a reminiscence of my mother and of the haunting day before she died. Last night, however, this memory was dimmed and warmed in a more pleasant nostalgia ( Read more... )

My family ( Read more... )

Subject: No laughing matter ( Read more... )

I am, as I've often confessed, more than a little bit affected by two things: music and "place." In the rare occasion of a harmonious collision between the two, I'm especially moved. I get a toothache-of-the-heart feeling, a nostalgic longing, or else I get the tidal euphoria of pride in my current location. Ridiculous though it may be, more ( Read more... )

See Diana. See Diana travel.

June 28th-July 18th: Teaching English at TASP in Marion, Massachusetts- and hopefully visiting friends in Boston, MA and other parts of the state?
July 4th - July 6th: Brooklyn, New York visiting Ben
July 12th - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts with my Dad and Janet
July 17th - Spoon is playing in Providence, RI and ( Read more... )