Blue & White

In the past two days I’ve seen two blue bandanas (not unlike, but not exactly like the one I’ve begun wearing to prevent scalp sunburn while hiking) abandoned in strange places — one on a street corner downtown, and another in the university library on the third floor near the N section (art).
This evening brought [...]

Mt. Evans Recap

Thanks to Tim, who is a most excellent photographer, I can now post a few more nice pictures of the Chicago Lakes / Mount Evans hike I took two weeks ago:

(taken from near the bottom)

(We ate here and saw some kind of freshwater crustacean and water bugs (the first water bugs I’d ever seen).  After [...]

Art/Music/Film Lovers Pay Attention

One of the students who works with me (and had to go and graduate!) has begun a blog that I think is really going to be a good one…  In his first week, he has featured an interview with Lol Tolhurst of The Cure, discussed contemporary surrealism, and critiqued Damien Hirst, and knowing him he [...]

Every New Beginning

Yesterday was a Very Big Day for a few people, and I was a proud bystander.  Three of my most favorite people from the Library and Information Science program graduated, and Lacey had a barbecue to celebrate (which, thanks to her fabulous dad, involved Kobe burgers).  It was a much needed but much-too-brief break in [...]

New Feature

Look to the right!!  I added a new RSS feed to my blog — this one feeds from my Google Reader account, where I flip through subscriptions to lots and lots of other blogs…  Sometimes I see things here that I like, but maybe don’t want to write about, and now I can share them [...]

Forward Looking

My Thing from The Thing Quarterly is being wrapped today!  If it actually comes to me in a brown paper package tied up with string, I will positively die of pure joy.  I’ll post a picture of whatever it is when it arrives.

A Few Unrelated Things

Connecting with people is really good…  Do you ever have those conversations with someone you’ve sort of known for a long time, and you realize you have much more in common than you knew?  It feels nice.  And it’s always a plus when the conversation is over your first fish and chips meal in a [...]

Things I Know and Hate Nonetheless

Even the dreaded part of my job is still part of my job.  I hate that.  But I know it.
And even the wine with a kite on the bottle won’t make me worry free.  I hate that, and know it, too.
I had a little coupon for emusic, and used it tonight.  I also cleaned the [...]

Bierstadt

Mount Bierstadt. It was our goal for the summer, the benchmark of hiking-without-boyfriends success. We did it — at a leisurely pace, but not necessarily with a leisurely sentiment. And I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it was exciting to make it to the top and see so [...]

Expensive Lesson

I like my American Express card because there’s no annual fee and I get cash back on purchases I make. They pissed me off royally today, though.
It’s my fault. I know this. I have two checking accounts — the old one I don’t really use anymore, and the fabulous, new, interest-bearing ING [...]