So, the little country bird went to the big city last week, and had a fabulous time!

I went to stay with the lovely aisling_door  and her family on Long Island.  Such good people.  Her dad immediately started treating me like one of the family, including admonitions to "Eat! Eat!", and I got to meet her younger brother and the bulldog.  Her mum was at a reunion ( Read more... )

1.  I spoke to one of the members of my committee today, so now I have NO excuse not to get these revisions done and get the stupid prospectus in.  This whole saga has been dragging on for far too long.  The meeting really threw me off kilter, though.  This is the member of my committee who is usually the most excited about my project and the most ( Read more... )

Happy birthday my dear!!!!!!!!
I hope you had a gorgeous day!


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*snort*  of ALL the days to forget my trusty sidekick camera, I would have to leave it hooked into my computer on HALLOWEEN!  Ah well, there were lots of incriminating pictures taken by friends who promise me access to their photobucket accounts.  So there will be a later (mis)adventures of Halloween post to compliment today's summary.

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WoooooHoooo!
Late posting because I didn't get back until rather late yesterday and just tumbled into bed (I'm such an old lady-ha!).

Yesterday I drove up to Indy for the day.  I went to my friend L's house so we could carve pumpkins.  I love that part of Halloween!  We put on my Halloween playlist, covered the table in tarps and got to work.  I ( Read more... )

28 October's "celebration" was one that most people would consider a punishment, I think.  When we do "Spring Cleaning" we clean the external areas of our houses and welcome in the fresh air.  So, for an "Autumn Cleaning", I worked through all the bits that can't really be seen.  I've started re-processing all the image and media files on my ( Read more... )

First off:  Update time.  Housemate did not end up going to Milwaukee (yet).  Her father is doing MUCH MUCH better.  Apparently, it was a very small stroke that somehow or other had its origin in his irregular heartbeat.  He's now in a different ward of the hospital and they are trying him on various heart meds.  She will be headed up later in the ( Read more... )

So, today was supposed to include pumpkin carving and Sunday dinner with my housemate, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's two boys.  Unfortunately, my housemate got a call at about 4.30 with the horrible news that her father has had a stroke and they airlifted him to a hospital in Milwaukee.  Needless to say, we scuttled the pumpkin carving ( Read more... )

Earlier in the month I posted the Autumn music mix I made to enjoy throughout the season.  Now that Hallowe'en is nearer, I give you the mix that will be taking over my iPod this week.  It will probably also find its way onto my stereo system with other creepy noises and tunes all weekend next weekend (if my housemate doesn't scream like a banshee ( Read more... )

So, I was in the Florida Keys from 10/10 to 10/17, and I've spent the time since then trying to bring my life back to something approaching its usual form of chaos.  In the Keys there were 8 girls in line for the one computer, so my time was limited to checking email in case my students needed me (and the occasional *short* foray into fanfic).  ( Read more... )