So me and some of the other mass comm grad students went out to a bar tonight, and I was actually going to get a drink which is absolutely shocking for me. But get this...they didn't have Lynchburg Lemonade! The bartender didn't even know how to make it. Then she got all offended when I wouldn't let her try to make it. Just because if she doesn ( Read more... )

I have officially been accepted to present a paper at the Popular Culture Association national conference in Boston in April! Yay! I'll be talking about the satiric portrayals of fundamentalist Christians in "Saved!" and how the implications of those portrayals could serve to validate religion-based homophobia. :) Hopefully maybe I'll find ( Read more... )

Last night I came to a surprising conclusion...that Wal-Mart shoes apparently offer the best support to be worn with orthotic devices. Why does this matter to me, you ask? Well, long story short, I fractured my ankle the day before classes started, about 3 1/2 weeks ago. I was coming down the steps in Bachelor Hall after a meeting with a ( Read more... )

I saw this on Mary's journal and thought it was cool...so I did it too. :) I'm just wondering, though...why is the default image for eBay (and actually the first two or three) porn? Interesting.

Oh well...( here ya go... )

Today is the last day of the summer term I was taking actual classes in. Six weeks, and six credit hours down, and in a few weeks I'll get $900 for it. Woohoo ( Read more... )

I got a sweet deal on some DVD-Rs at Wal-Mart...$9 for a 50-pack. It was over on the clearance shelf but there was no tag for it, so I thought it was probably just in the wrong place and was going to continue on to look at the retail priced DVD-Rs. On a whim, I decided to take it over to one of those price check scanners to see what the price ( Read more... )

Wow, my journal is in serious need of an update. ;) I hate it when I leave it for this long because I just end up skipping over everything that's happened simply because I'm too lazy to type it all out. So here are the highlights: week at home, summer classes, new iMac ( Read more... )

After a long, hard year of grad school, it's nice to finally have some time off without something terrible looming on the horizon...just six weeks of two fun summer courses, then six more weeks of independent study. This has been a good week so far...just doing a whole lot of nothing. Sitting at home, playing with the dogs, eating Pal's...life is ( Read more... )

...has my opal ring gone? Oh where, oh where can it be? Blah. I hate it when I think I know exactly where something is and it turns out not to be there. And not only is it not in the place I thought it was, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere else either. This seems to have happened to a ring I got for my birthday many, many years ago that was a ( Read more... )

Yay for the semester being almost finished! Tonight I got done with my last paper, and now all I have left is one exam on Friday and I'm completely done for the semester. :) *And* with my first year of grad school ( Read more... )