So things have finally settled down.  I finished out the semester, took two weeks to wallow in my cerebral breakdown, and now feel ready to conquer the world!  Ok, maybe just my little corner of Austin ( Read more... )

Ok, so I am also on academia.edu, which is like a face book for us studious types (you can look me up if you REALLY want to... under my actual bonafide name/department and see links to the article I've written, info on my thesis, etc.)  Anyways, if someone does a search in google or something, and then clicks on the link to my page, it saves their ( Read more... )

I can't believe there are only two weeks left in the semester.  I am not really sure how I'm going to get everything done... and one of my teacher's dosn't like my topic anymore (or he just dosn't seem to like how I'm handling it...) That's the danger of taking classes outside your department, which you are required to do.

Anastacia and I went and ( Read more... )

ok, I know it sounds cruel, but my family went away for the weekend, I had the house to myself, and it was awsome!  I got to sleep/wake when I wanted, eat when I wanted, take a bath when I wanted.... and it was quiet so I actually got alot of work done.  I'm really happy with how two of my projects are shaping up.  I need to get my butt into gear ( Read more... )

* Worning, Grad School Rant *
So, for the last few days I have been working diligently on my Judgment of Paris paper, looking at "medieval" elements in this Renaissance masterpiece... actually it's in this set of 12+ masterpieces, what can I say, Cranach was incredibly prolific.

So anyway, I am trying to explain why Mercury does not look like ( Read more... )

So yesterday was a bit interesting, after Hockey Anastacia and I went to see "Monsters vs. Aliens."  It was really cute and we had fun going to the movies.  Afterwards we came home, hooked up with daddy, went to the neighborhood egg hunt, and then headed out to the bookstore.  We were all hungry so we grabed an early dinner, came home and.... feel ( Read more... )

I havn't had a hair cut in quite sime time (read almost 2 years) and I think I'm ready to chop it off.  Maybe I will do that tomorrow since it is "optional library day" for my English class, and I can get way more work done at home (dont' you just love the internet... most of the articles I need are full text online) without the drive time than if ( Read more... )

Things have been kinda crazy lately, to say the least.  School has been insane, but it's almost over.  I will need to bust by butt to get all my research papers finished on time, but I'm willing to go the distance.  I also need to decide if I am going to go to Kalamazoo (I was thinking not, and then the list of sessions came out.....) and send out ( Read more... )

The garlic arrived in the mail.  Anastacia was very excited. She jumped up and down squeeling with delight.  She didn't really notice any major difference in its appearence.
She is also really happy because she got to spend some time with her friends in Dallas over the weekend.  It was her best friends birthday party. 
We are off to work on homework ( Read more... )

So this summer, my daughter went through a phase where she DESPERATLY wanted a pet.  I mean beggin and pleading every day.  She didn't know Doug and I were discussing some options, but wanted to get the move and the new school year underway before we made any decision (who would have guessed that the perfect dog would find us?) So we did the big ( Read more... )