My Own Thoughts

You know, I really loved the Sookie Stackhouse books when I was reading them. Sure there were some problems, including major continuity errors and absolutely worthless men, but they were fun. I even got my husband to read them… And my sisters and brother have read them and my mother has started them. After working [...]

An article on New Orleans and Sookie which is very fun. It shows a home which might be Hadley’s apartment.

Okay, so I have a paper to give on Friday. I wrote it, but I didn’t like it, so I spent this week totally rewriting it. I’ve got it into a close approximation of reasonable now. And then I opened my computer and looked for new CFPs. I don’t have any reason to do that. [...]

See The Anchoress’ post on the correlation between pregnancy and lifetime health of the child, as per ancient Chinese knowledge and modern scientific data. Something for Dielli?

I didn’t want to be working on that Sh paper. And I was totally relieved for the first few hours after I sent it off. Now I’m a little paranoid again, but, you know, the worst they can do is tell me I suck and tell a whole bunch of other people I don’t know [...]

I am not working on a paper this evening. I finished the one that was due today and sent it off. Who knows if it will be accepted? God alone. I am a little worried that it’s an “oh, duh” paper, especially after having read the reader reviews on the Chronicle forums tonight, but, you [...]

My mother was in bad shape on Friday. She’s in a manic stage, though, so she has actually pushed through and done a lot. Yesterday I took both the folks to PF Changs. We took about an hour to eat and then another half an hour in the bathroom. Thankfully they actually have a large [...]

Because they chose Barak Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize based on his diplomacy.

I have seven days from now to finish the Shakespeare paper. I thought I had two weekends, this one which is shot because I am with my parents the whole time, and next one. No. I have this one. I have one week. I am getting in gear as fast as I can. (While surfing [...]

Reuter’s says: In a study, researchers found that a woman’s education was a stronger factor in her husband’s risk of dying over the next decade or so than the man’s own level of education. And a husband’s social class based on his occupation had a greater influence on a woman’s survival than her own occupational [...]

I SO do not want to grade papers. But these are overdue. I had to give the students extra credit, I was so late with them. They wrote them a week and a half ago. I really need to get them back.

My Hemingway paper from my graduate thesis was accepted at the International Hemingway conference. So I am going to be in Switzerland next summer. That is way cool. I wonder how much the tickets are.

1 Sunday- throw a pity party and bring my own refreshments arms too short to box with God trouble has a reserved seat in your family death runs in my family God took the bullets out of Satan’s gun “You make oceans from the rain.” 2 Sunday camping lamp= a picture of a Christian The [...]

The conference is over and the paper was good. Yeah. Now I have a chapter due in 12 days and a conference presentation to give in 20 days. I have collected sources for both but not written much other than the two page proposal. The chapter needs to be twenty pages.

The Anchoress has some good stuff. Gall = poison Vinegar = balm, good for dehydration Jesus refused the wine mixed with gall and accepted the vinegar. Interesting stuff.

Well, that was the fastest turn around I have ever seen. I sent the late proposals in last night around 9 pm. This morning before 9 am I had two responses. The chapter for the book was a no. The rejection was the most positive and encouraging I have ever received and, believe it or [...]