I just read the news (via a TV Guide Facebook post, so take that with the pillar of salt it deserves) that this year will be House's final season. The finale in May will serve as the end of the series. The decision to end the show doesn't really come as a surprise; with Hugh Laurie focusing more and more on his musical career, it was impossible to ( Read more... )

I'm about to head out of the office in order to get the jump on the weekend's events -- including going to Indianapolis for Winter Beer Fest 2012, and a tour of the Vonnegut Memorial Library -- but realize that there is not too much to report otherwise. I'm at the front end of another busy semester and finally feel like I'm settling into the role ( Read more... )

So, the Titanic 3D trailer should not have made me as emotional as it did. But, gah, I can't help it. When it first came out, I saw it in theaters something like seven times. Do you know long that movie is? It's more than three hours. Three hours times seven: that's over twenty-one hours. Every day in the world, 490,000 babies are born. The amount ( Read more... )

I was feeling nostalgic for high school earlier today, for no reason in particular. I just sent off an e-mail to my former concert orchestra teacher, thanking him for the positive impact he had on my life. I told him that I, too, am now a teacher and while I don't teach music, I do carry some of his lessons with me "on stage" every day. Again, I ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here at the kitchen table having just switched the contents of my "fall" purse to my "fall-winter transition" purse (yes, I have such a thing, shut up), writing a couple of notes that I'll drop in the mailbox tomorrow, listening to the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack and drinking Sleepytime Tea ( Read more... )

So it's the first week of November and my aspirations of starting a NaNo project have been hijacked by a visit (and two subsequent class observations) by home office, a cold, and an overwhelming feeling of exhaustion on account of both. I don't think I'm going to be nearly as productive as I had hoped this year. This week was pretty rough and I ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of weeks since I've updated, and there's really been no down time in that two weeks. The end of any term is chaotic, this one made even more so by the fact that I had to helm a complete mock trial for my CS 5 class in a little less than a week (which we performed yesterday and which could not have gone any better) and that I've ( Read more... )

It is such a perfect day outside: bright, sunny, breezy and hovering right around 65°. Quite a welcome relief from the triple digit temperatures we were sporting this time last month. I wore a sweater to work today -- the inaugural fall sweater -- and I think it had something to do with boosting my overall mood. I like summer, but fall is really ( Read more... )

Ever since the X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," I have had a soft spot in my heart for Charles Nelson Reilly. I was too young to really know him from his days on Match Game, or to have seen his appearances on The Tonight Show (which he did something like 106 times), but his role as the sardonic non-fiction science fiction novelist ( Read more... )

I go to the gym pretty much every day during the work week (and often on Saturdays) and have been faithful to that regimen for about a month and a half now. Today, though, as I stood in my office looking out on a gray, chilly campus, I just thought, You know what I want to do more than the gym? Go home, take a hot shower, make some tea, and curl up ( Read more... )