voncookie | August 31, 2008
It’s Labor Day Weekend; the end of summer is here. I was up last night, unable to sleep, reflecting on what this summer both was and wasn’t. All I can say is, thank God I went to Reno, because otherwise I’d be feeling like I accomplished veritably nothing this summer. (I still have yet to [...]
voncookie | August 30, 2008
I just got back from my three days in Reno, The Biggest Little City in the World, and man isn’t that true!!! I don’t know what was weirder–Reno, or my behavior in Reno. I mean, getting up at 12:30 a.m., getting all dolled up with heavy eye-makeup and dark lipstick, all to go play a [...]
voncookie | August 25, 2008
I’m gonna be a star!!!! I’m hopping in my car and heading to Reno for some days of R&R… interspersed with intense bouts of work so that I can finish the chapter I’ve been working on all summer. I want to strike a nice balance between things like lounging by the pool (reading of course) [...]
voncookie | August 24, 2008
Euphoria from the acceptance to the Charlotte Conference now over, I returned to my regularly scheduled overburdened schedule. And I sit here in my bed / desk and spin my wheels, unable to decide on which project to tackle first. There are so many to work on, and deciding between them feels frequently like Sophie’s [...]
voncookie | August 21, 2008
I’m all set and registered for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts conference in Charlotte, NC this fall. No, my paper has not been accepted… yet. ::crosses fingers:: All this vonCookie wants is a chance to read her really awesome paper on chemical poetics in the Charlotte Omni. That’s all she wants. ::attempts [...]
voncookie | August 21, 2008
Nothing wrong with working, and I feel like doing it these days, doesn’t matter for love or money. I just feel like working. The trick is, though, as always, finding a good spot in which to work. I end up moving around a lot during the day rather than settling in–I never quite found a [...]
voncookie | August 21, 2008
Alicia Sacramone, the semi-stoic, made my heart ache for her. But Lolo Jones, 100m hurdler, has officially broken it. Pulling into the lead and heading for home, she clipped the 9th hurdle and fell into 7th place, stumbling across the finish line, collapsing on the track, and screaming the ripest obscenity she could muster, having [...]
voncookie | August 19, 2008
Wrist pain and buddy-taped, splinted fingers aside, I simply cannot sleep tonight. But luckily there’s the LitMag to keep me occupied in these Dark Hours Just Before Dawn. The semester starts next week, and with it, a new issue of the LitMag. In order to kick-start the whole godforsaken process, I’ve had to write up [...]
voncookie | August 18, 2008
Heroine #5: Cheng Fei of the Chinese Team–She totally blew it on the vault, falling to her knees on the landing, falling out of medal contention, the same girl who “pumped her little fist” in triumph when the Chinese team took the Gold, dissolved in tears in the wake of her disastrous performance, showing an [...]
voncookie | August 16, 2008
“I vant to be alone.” It’s nothing personal… I’m just feeling like a little isolation would do me some good. Some quality time with the Cookie. This happens when I’m about to enter an intense work cycle, which I am. It feels like melancholic exhaustion; I just need a mental reset, so that when the [...]
voncookie | August 12, 2008
After some pain and panic, I went to the doctor a few days early, and they removed the cast, which was determined to be the source of the pain… well, that and the fact that I’ve totally overdone it typing for the past week or so as my impatience has increased. So now I’m in [...]
voncookie | August 9, 2008
There’s a certain quality to the light in San Francisco (in the city itself) in the summertime that is unique–some cool, breezy and moist brightness that cannot be found anywhere else as far as I know. TooBeaut’s house is filled with it today, as I sit here and–against doctor’s orders–churn out 1K words on the [...]
voncookie | August 8, 2008
There’s been Difficulty lately–things have just been *hard*, partly due to my own person (head, body, mind & soul all conspiring to make me miserable), partly due to the EVIL that is the Last Year of Grad School. The Last Year requires you to both finish your dissertation and whore yourself around looking for a [...]
voncookie | August 7, 2008
sorry for the silence, dear readers. I’ve had a more-than-intense week, as I’ve been contemplating trying to finish my dissertation in someplace other than Liberal Paradise, possibly by getting a job in one of the Quadrilateral States and thereby bypassing some necessary academic Rites-of-Passage that really, when all is said and done, I just need [...]
voncookie | August 4, 2008
My wrist is starting to freeze inside the cast. How can I tell? Sharp, shooting pains that are currently keeping me awake, and I am DOG TIRED–just ask TooBeaut, with whom I watched a ballgame tonight over salmon tacos and my persistent yawning. The ballgame was good… *I*, however, was too pooped to party. In [...]
