So after being highly frustrated with the comp yesterday, we wound up going to Beast Buy. And, of course, the intermittent problem didn't happen while at Beast Buy. Go figure. But the Geek Squad guy ran some fixes, and we went back home. I'm not holding my breath, but the problem hasn't turned up since ( Read more... )

What, it's been a week since I posted? How did that happen ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, j_daddyYesterday, I had a nasty sinus headache which didn't get manageable 'til evening. But given the weather forecasts, we ran errands in the evening so we wouldn't have to go anywhere today ( Read more... )

So yesterday, after teaching, I wound up doing nothing all afternoon/evening. No nano writing. No academic writing. No reading. No project work. Nothing. Total brain fry ( Read more... )

I was being restless and went to Wordle and made this using the most recent draft of my comps paper proposal. And I think it's pretty darn cool!


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I was just getting ready to go get lunch when the fire alarm went off in the building (Wells Hall, my second home). I grabbed coat and wallet, and then waited outside to make sure it wasn't a real fire. Since my computer was in the building and there were a couple of crucial things (grade spreadsheets and my nanonovel) that I hadn't backed up ( Read more... )

I didn't get much writing done tonight, due to a love-hate relationship with my comps proposals.

Today is a sucky writing day. Papers and Nano, neither one of them is going well today. Bleh!

The chocolate party was wonderful! Kudos to The Alex for arranging it and all his wonderful goodies. My favorite things were the mint truffles, the chocolate cheesecakes and the mousse. My favorite non-chocolate thing was the insalata caprese ala stick. Perfect for palate-clearing! Oooh, the macaroons were wonderful, too! And... well, ( Read more... )

I'm at 9547 words right now. That's 2266 words today! That'll probably be it for the night, unless I'm too wide awake when we get back from the chocolate party. So I didn't catch up, but I did take some off the amount I'm behind ( Read more... )