One Tough vonCookie

voncookie | April 30, 2007

Ummm… call your doctor? Go to the emergency room? What the %*&@# are you doing Googling this? The internet is a mystery to me…

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voncookie | April 30, 2007

FYI, if you want to know where I am, I am somewhere, be it office, coffeeshop or breakfast nook, WRITING. It is going well, for those of you who are interested, but it is completely dominating my every waking moment. So my posts may be a little less frequent for the next week or so. [...]

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voncookie | April 29, 2007

Well, that’s not exactly true. I did “flesh out” my first two pages. But basically, I’m still working on introductory crap and haven’t even gotten to the real “meat” of the dissertation, i.e. the interesting part. I’m really frustrated today, and kinda pissed off. Just in a foul mood. Maybe being in a foul mood [...]

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voncookie | April 28, 2007

I woke up at 7 today, well-rested, barely any interruptions of my sleep, rolled out of bed, ran my fingers through my hair that’s actually starting to get pretty long and shaggy, threw on my trusty flannel shirt and jeans, and came immediately to Royal Ground. I am now ensconced at my favorite table (complete [...]

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voncookie | April 27, 2007

We must We must We must increase our bust. The bigger, the better The tighter the sweater, And so we must We must… (repeat until you reach at least a C-cup) Once upon a time there was Judy Blume. Judy Blume and Are You There, God, It’s Me, Margaret. This book is quite possibly (or [...]

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voncookie | April 26, 2007

There’s a guy I see regularly at the coffee house (who from now on I will refer to as the Samba King) who regularly lectures me (in Spanish) about how I work too hard. (Oh, if he only knew that my frantic typing here at the coffee house is 75% blog, 25% dissertation!) He’s the [...]

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voncookie | April 25, 2007

I’m sitting in bed, the place from which I do all my work now, as my desk is cluttered with things like boxes of Sugar-Free Jello Mix, last year’s taxes, about 50 library books, stacks of index cards… you get the idea. I’m sitting in bed and I’m listening to “Asian Groove“, that Putumayo collection [...]

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voncookie | April 25, 2007

“Víspera” is one of my favorite Spanish words: it means “on the cusp of” or “near to” or “the eve of”; one translator called it a “prelude”—I like that. So right now I’m on the “vísperas de clase” and I’ve got ants in my pants. I feel very uneasy about teaching. But, ya know what? [...]

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voncookie | April 24, 2007

…because I’m afraid that I won’t be able to control what comes out of my mouth at all. I had that horrible experience a week or two ago where I took “too much Nyquil” (read: too many beta blockers + NyQuil) and ended up acting fairly drunk in front of the entire class. I had [...]

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voncookie | April 24, 2007

What do you do when you suspect someone you know of plagiarism? And what do you do when you realize that perhaps something you’ve written has encouraged it? I’ve been watching my stats closely, and I’ve been noticing the many, many searches that come up for “El nietecito” (The Little Grandson), that play by Jacinto [...]

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voncookie | April 23, 2007

As pointed out by reader Nancy, there’s going to be an art exhibit in SOMA this weekend, 4/27-4/29. For more information, go to their site at http://www.somaartiststudios.com/. Thanks for the info, Nancy! (For more of her artwork, go to namastenancy.livejournal.com)

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voncookie | April 23, 2007

The site went down today, precisely on the day after I sent out a mass email saying “come visit!” to a lot of friends and family. Murphy’s Law, right? So I’m hoping people will come back and give it another go. And I really hope that my hosting network decides to announce when they’re going [...]

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voncookie | April 22, 2007

“Canción del jinete” Córdoba. Lejana y sola.   Jaca negra, luna grande, y aceitunas en mi alforja. Aunque sepa los caminos yo nunca llegaré a Córdoba.   Por el llano, por el viento, jaca negra, luna roja. La muerte me está mirando desde las torres de Córdoba.   ¡Ay qué camino tan largo! ¡Ay mi [...]

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voncookie | April 22, 2007

Scroll down a little bit and look in the far right-hand column. I’ve just downloaded a new interactive Widget: Polls! This month’s poll is “What do you want to hear more about?” I’ve given several options there, but if there’s something you want to hear more about that isn’t on the list, leave a comment [...]

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voncookie | April 21, 2007

Based on the interesting things that are showing up in my stats, I’ve decided to start a series of posts titled “Meditations on a Search Engine” that will explore some of the themes that have been suggested by Google or Yahoo! or Ask.com when people enter search strings like “blind without my glasses” or “huge [...]

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