Archive for August, 2006

I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over how brilliant I am.

You know, I think I need one of these inspirational posters for my new office/cubicle/desk in a largish room full of lecturers in which I will be probably the only PhD student. Because, you know, I don’t want to make a statement about who I am or anything. And really, I want my students to […]

Home…it’s…yeah, I don’t know the answer to this yet.

I’m flying back to Ames (actually, Des Moines, since I lack a pilot’s license and a personal aircraft) next week to defend my thesis, so it was really nice of the terrorists to all get together in an effort to raise the terror-alert level to orange (high, for those of us without a neat little […]

I’m a Valley girl now.

Matt and I are officially in Utah now, and we’re officially Internet-connected. This connectedness, ironically, makes us feel a lot less like we’re in Utah. Before the Internet appeared magically at our townhouse, we basically had three things we could do: unpack, sit, and talk about unpacking and sitting. During that time one has a […]