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another summer to chronicle...
...only this time I'm not going anywhere, lollyjoy is, so the cat is getting an earful. And LJ ( Read more... ) -
so long
Oh the things that have happened. I have a translation contract (my very first!) and I get to be a lecturer for the summer before I go back to TA-ing (Master's Degrees ARE good for something!)and, even though this should not be the most exciting thing right now, it is: 47 days until moving day ( Read more... ) -
Ice quake!!!
I haven't posted in forever, and I hope that I start again soon. The semester, once I turn in a bunch of random things that are due on February 12-15, should be much better than last semester, so maybe that will translate into more LJ. But today something very exciting happened. In fact, it is one of the most exciting things that has happened to ( Read more... ) -
that is so a word.
Common themes to the journal lately.
Just now I was making my move on a Facebook Scrabble game with my brother. All seven letters!! So excited: I had acardiac. A bingo and a medical term!!!! What could be more exciting? But it turns out that TWL (or SOWPODS; I don't remember which one we're using) does not consider acardiac to be a word. WHY ( Read more... ) -
Words. Yay!
Here it is, Tuesday, looking like rain, and I'm on the couch drinking coffee and procrastinating...and thinking about words.
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Fluffy bunnies and sparkly rainbows!
A few hours ago I finished the oral component of my Master's exam...and all went well! I had three days between the five-hour closed-book written portion and the oral...plenty of time to be nervous. I was able to start the oral by presenting changes I wanted to make...nothing too major. I was pretty nervous about the text-dating portion and the ( Read more... ) -
MRI? Moi? Mais oui!
Here I am, mostly taking the morning off...I got up and came to my office, did a few officy things for the department, but now I'm mostly messing around on the internet and decompressing. I've been studying 4+ hours a day for my exam (11 days away!), so I don't think it can hurt to take it easy for a morning. Right? I'm pretty ready for this ( Read more... ) -
Random thought, five minutes later.
You know, when we took our road trip to Alabama, I made a very special playlist on Fern, my iPod, called "Alabamtastic"--it was made of all the songs we could think of that contain an Alabama reference. (All 6! The Alabama Song by the Doors, Dr. King by Mason Jennings, Art School Girl by Stone Temple Pilots, Gypsies Tramps and Theives by Cher, ( Read more... )
