So...I thought I had found a buyer for my hair. There was much aggravation involved in working it out - for one thing, they refused to use PayPal, and I was leery of handing out my address to a complete stranger I'd never met (having already gotten some...unusual...responses to my ad), so I had to have them send a check to me care of someone else ( Read more... )

Another bonus of grad school over teaching: I don't have to worry nearly as much about the fact that none of my professional clothing fits! Woo! Although it does still make me kind of sad. I liked some of that clothing, man ( Read more... )

Mm, sleep, you taste so good ( Read more... )

And not the kind that they play in church, either.

I recently got my New York State driver's license, and I signed up to be an organ donor. I read the fine print before I did, too. Signing up to be an organ donor - in New York state at least - allows whoever to take your entire body for transplant/research purposes. Unless you specify ( Read more... )

So I have this silly idea about a first dance for the wedding that occurred to me last night as I was lying in bed, and I'm becoming more and more enamored of it the more I think about it. It's this: what if, instead of a more traditional [Western] song, we played Arabic music? We could do one of the traditional Arabic line dances. It would ( Read more... )

I do sometimes bring my own.  Really.  It's just that a lot of times I'm too tired to feel like reading.  Also, Mike usually goes to sleep on me in the mornings, which makes it kind of difficult to read.

But.  I saw a couple of books recently (besides Watchmen) that caught my eye.  The first one was Away, by Amy Bloom.  It was the cover that ( Read more... )

And other things. My desk drawers are now completely empty, and my floor is in a state of organized mess. A pile of stuff to throw away, a pile of stuff to give to my parents to see if they want (and for them to throw away if they don't), a pile of stuff to give to Goodwill (or someone), a pile of stuff that I want to keep (actually fairly small ( Read more... )

I'm tired. For those of you who haven't been getting the worst of my hyper-depressed posts recently, my grandfather died. He was interred yesterday. So I went home Sunday and spent three days with my mourning family. But I'm not actually personally that upset about him dying. I know that sounds callous, but I really wasn't that close to him. ( Read more... )

I'm running out of steam for work. Granted, I've gotten a decent amount done today - a lesson plan and a half (if short), a couple pages of notes on Sir Gawain, a wee bit of grading, some lesson planning ( Read more... )

Well, I've had sort of a hard time focusing today. Sigh. But I went and saw Professor Essid, and he recommended watching a couple of movies that might be relevent. Including The Da Vinci Code, which I'm not too sure about. He's never seen it. I don't remember it terribly well, and I'm not sure it would be useful. But there's also Indiana ( Read more... )