voncookie | September 30, 2006
What remained of my hair has now been snipped off (in one stroke no less, if that tells you anything)–I know, that was *very* impulsive of me to do it, especially with my own hand, but sometimes, ya just gotta do something. My hair is now chin length, and I will be getting it professionally [...]
voncookie | September 27, 2006
voncookie | September 27, 2006
Hey, Allison!!! ¡¡¡Tú piedras, definitivamente!!! Gracias por el apoyo, y la amistad todavÃa muy fuerte aunque hace años que no nos vemos. Te echo de menos, y espero que algún dÃa en el futuro muy próximo, podremos tomar un Yuengling y hablar como hablábamos cuando éramos estudiantes en UD. Un abrazo muy fuerte para ti [...]
voncookie | September 27, 2006
Here’s a pic from 2004 of some of my most favorite people on the planet who just came through for me in a mega-watt way. Here’s to “the Family”!!! (l to r: Sean, Stephanie (Sean’s wife), Trey (Laura’s bf), Laura, Jen, Matt (Jenna’s hubby holding daughter Emma), Carrie 007, Jenna)
voncookie | September 27, 2006
I’m sitting here conducting my (somewhat futile) office hours (I maybe get one student a week, unless it’s before a test or a composition), and I’m thinking, jeez, is my life really that centered on what’s going on with my hair??? Isn’t there something, anything else in the universe worth writing about???? *****big fat blank [...]
voncookie | September 26, 2006
Musak version of “Stormy Weather” Considering that it’s cloudy outside, and I spent the whole night crying, it seems pretty apt.
voncookie | September 26, 2006
The 2007 Writer’s Market series is already out. I was looking through my old entries, noticing that I bought the Writer’s Market Deluxe Edition back in April, thinking that 2007 editions would be released in, maybe, November or December, and thus I’d have a good number of months of accuracy. Well, I was wrong.The question [...]
voncookie | September 24, 2006
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voncookie | September 23, 2006
Okay, so if you were 30 and losing your hair, what would you do to make that painful transition easier on yourself? I think I may have a solution. But y’all are going to hate it. I’ve had long hair since I was… well, since I started growing hair. I had it short for about [...]
voncookie | September 23, 2006
I think most students of language and/or literature will testify to this phenomenon: the comfort dictionary. Most everyone I know in the Language field that is not a native speaker of the language in question still has their first bilingual dictionary, the one that they used when they were first learning how to say “Please [...]
voncookie | September 22, 2006
So, it’s hot here. September has arrived, October is on its way, and it’s going to be h-o-t-t-t-t for a good portion of the next month, I’m sure. Heat does not agree with me, so you can imagine how thrilled I am about this. One good thing about it being so hot, though?: It’s f-ing [...]
voncookie | September 18, 2006
I was driving home from school today, after teaching a lesson where I forgot all of my literary vocabulary—POOF! Out of my head! Just gone.—and I was really yelling at myself for a) not having more confidence; b) caring what my students think of me; and c) not having studied more back in college… (Yep. [...]
voncookie | September 17, 2006
In order to get Spanish back into my head—it has been evading me of late—I decided yesterday to put on a Spanish language movie in the background while I went about my studying. I pulled out my DVD boxes and chose “The Motorcycle Diaries”—a movie I heard great things about when it was released, and [...]
voncookie | September 16, 2006
Thought I’d include here a picture of me wearing the famous Red&Black bandana on Halloween in 1992, as mentioned in the post titled “How Things Travel“. Enjoy the commodified hippie look!
voncookie | September 16, 2006
I’ve received a new deadline for next week: I must have something written for my advisers by Tuesday or Wednesday. So that means I might be falling off the face of the earth for a few days. But I will leave you with this thought, a little tidbit of information sent to me by one [...]
