voncookie | March 31, 2007
It’s here: Holy Week is upon us. Last year’s meditation upon it can be found here. My feelings about Holy Week were brought into sharp focus last night when, after dinner, my friend Mark was calculating the next time we could hang out and it went something like this… “Well, let’s see, there’s Good Friday [...]
voncookie | March 31, 2007
I turn on my computer in the interest of working on my dissertation while also listening to “Car Talk”, and perform my usual ritual. Check Gmail Check Calmail Check Yahoo!Mail Check Netvibes, see if anyone’s written anything interesting on their blogs. Read said interesting items. Usually, reading my Netvibes feeds takes me all of two [...]
voncookie | March 30, 2007
Can’t sleep, can’t sleep. This is what I get for doing my work propped up in bed. Bed becomes a desk, and who gets good sleep while sleeping at their desk? I am so wishing that I had the Weather Channel right now; I’d be asleep nearly instantly, or at least after one weather rotation. [...]
voncookie | March 29, 2007
I don’t I don’t I don’t. NO no nonononono. Don’t wanna. Not gonna do it! Alternatives to working: Look for mythical litsci blogs that could help me with my dissertation; check my email for the fifteen millionth time today; watch the local news for more updates on mountain lion appearances by childrens’ playgrounds; go for [...]
voncookie | March 29, 2007
Not generally given to IM-Speak, but O-M-G. I’ve just watched disc 4 of “Rome” and I have to watch disc 5 RIGHT NOW because the series is so damn good, and it just took this major turn. I haven’t been this excited about a series since “The ‘L’ Word”, which is absolute schlock compared to [...]
voncookie | March 28, 2007
It’s the end of a long day of reading—I got through a significant chunk of Fiction Refracts Science and wrote some stuff about it on my other, slightly more professional blog, the one that actually deals with literature rather than the contents of my sock drawer. (Incidentally, I don’t have a sock drawer as I [...]
voncookie | March 28, 2007
Dear Creator: Let me start by saying, your “Now Reading” widget is to die for and I heart it immensely. HOWEVER, you should know that it is completely unintuitive and the only reason I can use it is because I have an eye for quirkiness and I learn quickly. I suppose most people in the [...]
voncookie | March 28, 2007
I’m sitting in Royal Ground just struggling to come up with a topic for today’s blog entry. I’m trying to write every day… although I think I may have missed yesterday, I’m not sure… because it’s good for my brain to exercise a little bit, you know, because I don’t get enough of that writing [...]
voncookie | March 27, 2007
Last night, before I went to bed, I did something that I almost never do: I wrote in my journal. I used to be an obsessive journal-keeper. Every last detail of my life was documented on acid-free paper with gel ink. And then I actually got a life, and suddenly journaling didn’t seem that important [...]
voncookie | March 26, 2007
So I’m at the post office for about 5 seconds today to pick up a package, and *this* happens at the counter next to me. Customer: (40-ish, female, wearing a bad hat with bushy hair, sweatpants, just-crawled-out-from-under-a-very-mossy-rock air about her, having just bought a postcard stamp for 24 cents, shocked) What happened? The stamp I [...]
voncookie | March 26, 2007
This is getting frustrating: of the blogs that I read (not too many), all but ALL of them have sputtered to a standstill, as if everyone just got the fuck out of Dodge (sans laptop) for no apparent reason. Maybe the world’s on Spring Break? Luckily I’m here to churn out my blog entry of [...]
voncookie | March 25, 2007
I’m listening to “Car Talk”, I’ve downed half an americano, taken my vitamins, and I’m still sleepy! I almost fell asleep on the phone talking to my Mom… while I was talking!! You’d think I should just crawl back into bed, but I’ve already made it up and it looks so pretty, I’d hate to [...]
voncookie | March 24, 2007
Saturday Morning in Royal Ground. A strange parade just went by, celebrating (I think) the opening of the Little League Baseball season. A police car and a firetruck, and then hundreds of kids ages 5-12 and their parents (lugging coffee and donuts) strutting down the street, ready for the games to begin! This town always [...]
voncookie | March 23, 2007
There’s a poem that I love to teach by Pedro Salinas. The poem is in Spanish, but its title is in English: “Underwood Girls”. It has wonderful imagery, wonderful sound… the problem is that for today’s reader, it is almost impossible to know what the poem is actually about: not women, but a typewriter. Today [...]
voncookie | March 23, 2007
I think last year I wrote some reflective essay about how Spring Break when you’re 19 or 20 means something totally different than when you’re still in school ten years later. Spring Break back then means Black Death Vodka, Hunch Punch, and beach sand in the crotch of your bikini making that hook-up with the [...]
