Overrated

Full-time work + full-time school + a practicum = not much time for anything else.
Had a friend in from Dallas this weekend — had a good time, but I have a lot to catch up on now, and am not going to be posting very regularly.  After March 12, life will be a little less [...]

The Accidental Buzz Marketer (or “They should really pay me for this”)

First: two disclaimers. 1.) The “style” of my blog layout capitalizes all of the first words in my post titles — I know better than that, but I don’t want to pay for the ability to correct this. 2.) When I mention a specific product here, I do so honestly.
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a new way of looking at cookies

My new position came with a Mac computer — my very first, and the first I’d used since my 7th grade keyboarding class.  A tech guy in the college said, “My best advice for you is to forget everything you think you know about PCs and just start over.” It hasn’t been an unpleasant experience.  [...]

Feeling much better — not 100%, but damn, being sick sucks.  Breathing out of both nostrils.  Mostly not coughing.  Sleeping through the night on one dose of generic NyQuil.  This is the good life.
I have this suspicion that most people prefer a certain type (or a few certain types) of reading material to others.  I [...]

post of the day

My favorite post today: you get what you pay for, more or less.  I’ve been toying with the idea that $70 shouldn’t be a high limit for shoes for the rest of my life.  I’m also interested in the magazine this came from: ShopSmart.  It’s published by the same company as Consumer Reports, and is [...]

:(

Sick today… Nothing big, just a cold (but with aches), and I’m especially whiny because this is the first time I’ve been this sick since May. In fact, the closest I’ve had to a cold was a couple days of a runny nose a few weeks ago. I attribute this to [...]

The pros and cons of my new checking account

In January I was enticed by Ing to open a checking account which yields 3.0% apy with no minimum balance. Getting 3.0% interest on a standard savings account with no minimum balance is pretty tough, I think, not to mention on a checking account. So I decided to give it a try, hoping [...]

God bless Texas

I highly support this.  It is responsible.  In an ideal world (well, someone’s ideal world), there would be no STDs, or they would only affect “other,” more promiscuous, less moral people — you know, the ones who don’t go to youth group.  Or something.  But HPV is huge. The CDC (via Planned Parenthood) reports that [...]

Last.fm

Okay, so maybe it’s a little creepy, but I haven’t had bad luck with it so far, and I’ve read a good review of the site (okay, an old good review)…  I’m totally getting into Last.fm.  Basically, you install the Last.fm software on your computer, and it tracks what you play.  You can, of course, [...]

Back!

Hello again… I’m back from a week with family (my grandmother passed away, not unexpected, but still a bit sudden).  It was…  sad.  Lots of time with relatives, some I didn’t necessarily know very well (for better in some cases, for worse in others).  Lots of time looking at old photographs.  Crying, laughing.  I still [...]