Working Vacation

12/30/08 3:53 PM

I have to stop apologizing for my extended absences - maybe by not having them.  Fall quarter ramped up during the last three weeks and I ended up working on projects every day for ten hours at minimum and barely made my deadlines.  I'm truly beginning to appreciate the difference in being a senior from previous years - turns out higher level classes involve a lot more work than I remember. :) Speaking of work, here I sit during my winter break posting to this blog - as a way of avoiding doing work around my house.  I passed up the annual family trip to Florida with my parents and son, in theory because someone had to take care of our pets - can you board goldfish?  In actuality, I stayed here to a) enjoy the solitude of a house without my mother barking orders or my...

'Tis The Season

11/24/08 2:02 PM

Finally, the end of the quarter is in sight - I'm looking forward to being able to take a breather from the non-stop work I've had this fall.  And who doesn't look forward to the holidays - family, food, presents... Of course, that's the downside too, especially for we student parents - where do we get the money in this nutty economy to put some boxes of fun under our trees for the little ones?   I've been desperately trying to avoid thinking about this, but with the biggest shopping day of the year less than a week away, I'm out of time.  A shaky economy does have it's perks - like a tank of gas for less than $15 - but it makes me wonder if it wouldn't be better to skip the brightly colored baubles and instead stick my money in my mattress or some equally crafty financial...

Feeling Like Methuselah

11/17/08 5:21 PM

For anyone new to the blog, let me say welcome and then apologize for my continuing technical difficulties that have now made the original post in this blog invisible.  On my end, the entire thing shows up and looks really pretty, so I feel awful that you can't enjoy it.  :-) And on that note, I'm starting to wonder if I'm all alone out here - am I speaking your language or am I totally off base?  Speak up - use that snazzy little comment box down there!!! Here's a familiar, yet depressing, scene in my classes: the professor is explaining something, perhaps why celebrities don't normally bother suing tabloids for libel, and after searching for a good example, settles on something that happened over 15 years ago.  Midway through describing what happened the professor...

Living Vicariously

11/10/08 5:12 PM

It looks like I may have finally overcome my technical difficulties - we'll see how it goes the next couple entries. Ah, college life - images of frat parties and crowded football games still float through my head at the words - and that's after over two years back on campus.  Maybe it's just rose-colored glasses, but I still have fond memories of what my first college experience was like.  Sometimes I long for my carefree days of wild parties and big plastic containers full of the mystical "jungle juice" that smoothed out the edges of those crazy days.  Listening to my younger classmates talk about their exciting evenings, and even bemoaning the hangovers that follow them to class the next day, I feel like I'm not that far removed from the fun of my youth. ... 0 comment

Techno-envy

11/6/08 9:17 AM

First of all, let me apologize for the mess that follows the titles on the main page of this blog.  I have yet to find anyone who can tell me why that junk keeps coming up - particularly since I use Firefox to post this, not Internet Explorer.  But these techinical difficulties, plus my entire weekend without the 'net inspired me to talk about tech and how non-traditionals look at its widespread use on campus. Okay, I admit it - I'd be lost without my emails and cellphone  - I know since my Zoomtown crashed last Friday and was down until Tuesday.  It wasn't until I was rushing around with my laptop trying to find a free WiFi hotspot on Sunday that I realized how ridiculously dependent I was on my computer.  That realization turned to irritation as I thought about... 0 comment