voncookie | February 25, 2007
An anonymous reader posted a comment recently saying “How about an entry on ambivalence and flexibility”. I was so excited to read that comment — READER FEEDBACK! And so I’ve decided to take their request and write an entry on ambivalence and flexibility, a positive connection that I’d honestly never thought of before. I think [...]
voncookie | February 24, 2007
Okay, so the last entry was a little panicky, a little paranoid, more than a little frustrated, and a little less than eloquent. Having been away from this blog for a while, I’ve lost some of my graces; I’m out of practice. What I meant to say in the last blog was that I can’t [...]
voncookie | February 24, 2007
What is it that they say about stage productions? When you walk out to face the audience, they shine the lights right into your eyes and it makes you blind to your audience, and thus all stage fright disappears… in theory. From what I remember of high school plays—I was always cast as the comic [...]
voncookie | February 23, 2007
Just had a 3.4 earthquake near Berkeley. It woke me up! I was napping nicely and suddenly the room was shaking. I haven’t felt an earthquake in years! …sad thing? I didn’t even get excited. Just whipped out the computer to see the shakemap on the U.S. Geological Survey (http://quake.usgs.gov)
voncookie | February 23, 2007
So I walk into the office today and what should be sitting on the abandoned desk of a colleague? Nothing less than an electric teakettle, a french press, and a tin of authentic coffee from Puerto Rico, not to mention three brand new coffee mugs in which to pour the caffeinated elixir. DUDE! A collective [...]
voncookie | February 19, 2007
I’ve decided to write a short series of entries about ambivalence, a force (can ambivalence be a force? That seems kind of paradoxical to me) that has dominated my life ever since graduate school began back in 2002. I’m trying to think about all the ways in which I conduct myself according to my ambivalence, [...]
voncookie | February 17, 2007
My well of creative ideas for blog posts has run dry; so, following along the lines of the “I Heart Wheat Germ” entries, I’d start listing the things that make life engaging, entrancing, or (at the other end of the spectrum) completely intolerable (at least for me.) I thought I’d begin with one of the [...]
voncookie | February 12, 2007
So, considering that things have been pretty roller-coaster-y lately, I have decided that I need to take a break from my blogs. I’ve already announced my hiatus on the serious blog which will last until mid-March. Here, at One Tough vonCookie, I may still post occasionally, but I won’t be back in full swing for [...]
voncookie | February 11, 2007
I’m sorry, readers, but I just need a month with very little stress from even the most benign of sources, so I’m on hiatus until mid-March. I’ll return with all flags flying, ready for action.
voncookie | February 11, 2007
I woke up this morning after having slept like a log due to a combination of cold medicine and Benadryl, wandered into my dressing room, looked in the mirror and registered a real gasp of shock. I wasn’t feeling well at all yesterday, and I’m still not, but I never thought a cold could register [...]
voncookie | February 10, 2007
When I moved out here to sunny California, nigh on many years ago, I became immediately engaged in the process of discovering the family I have here. I had spent my childhood visiting California maybe once every other year, later once a year, so I already I felt like I knew my family… but as [...]
voncookie | February 6, 2007
SiteMeters are pure narcissism, I’ve decided, after reflecting on my behavior for the past few months. This is what it breaks down to, every time I turn on the damn computer. Check one, two, three, four, FIVE email accounts Check Netvibes to see who’s been blogging today Feel guilty because I haven’t blogged today and [...]
voncookie | February 5, 2007
Me, after Sunday Night Dinner, yawning: Well, I’m off to the land of Nod. Wicked Stepmother: Are you “Winken” or “Blinken”? Me: It depends on how dry my contacts are. Even Wicked Stepmother had to concede that was clever.
voncookie | February 3, 2007
I’m feeling much better since my “disturbing” entries about melancholy and mediocrity and whatnot. But there’s one thing that is still amiss… my sleep habits. Tonight I am having trouble wanting to sleep at all—I have some sort of rebellious, willful insomnia tonight—mostly because I’m so elated to feel like myself again, and mornings have [...]
voncookie | February 3, 2007
…you’ll find the review in the NOW READING section. Title: the somewhat scandalous “The Story of the Eye” by Georges Bataille. Read forth, but judge not.
