voncookie | October 31, 2008
Woke up at 3:30 a.m. with a horrible sore throat and stomach upset. Feeling very ill. Looks like it’s going to be a boring Halloween for me. I think I’ll be spending it with the horrid green, orange, and purple colors of NyQuil and such. After a few extremely productive days, I guess I shouldn’t [...]
voncookie | October 28, 2008
Dear God, there’s a freakin’ WOLF howling outside my window. I have never run inside so fast in my life. Lesson: Don’t go out walking around at night in the wilds of Northern California, even if you need the freshest air you can imagine. Howwwwwl? Eeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
voncookie | October 28, 2008
Up here at BR, life is good, with the exception of one thing– the dried out pond that’s behind the refectory that used to have a chorus of frogs singing at night. The drought is so bad that they’ve just evaporated, and the silence that reigns here now after the sun goes down is mildly [...]
voncookie | October 28, 2008
I had a nightmare that I can’t remember. All I know is that I woke up looking for something on the side of my bed, convinced that whatever it was was a real thing, and only slowly did it dawn on me that it had been a dream. I wish I knew what the dream [...]
voncookie | October 27, 2008
I’m heading up to Healdsburg for a few days to soak in all the wine-country love, and to write the bulk of my job applications. I have been craving cows, frogs and silence, and all these things are to be found at the Bishop’s Ranch. I’m packing up some Cup O’ Noodles and granola bars [...]
voncookie | October 26, 2008
Honestly, you probably won’t be hearing much from me over the next week or so. I’m going to be creating a mountain of paper, both real and virtual, as I apply for jobs all over God’s green earth. ALLLLLLL over God’s green earth. Ay. It’s very hard to want to blog when there’s so much [...]
voncookie | October 23, 2008
It’s late, of course, close to 1 a.m. already, and guess what I’m doing? I’m working on the g-d Incomplete. Yes, you heard correctly: working on The Incomplete. The Completed Incomplete? you ask innocently. Why yes, it was complete, it is complete according to my transcript, and with an extremely satisfactory grade, however… I have [...]
voncookie | October 20, 2008
That’s what I feel like my cover letters sound like– as if they were written in LOLSpeak. “I iz intellijunt. Pleez to reads mys scribbles. Kthxbai.” Might as well be the truth. Confidence = LOW LOW LOW. It’s the same problem that I have all the time: feeling I fit none of the job descriptions, [...]
voncookie | October 18, 2008
I got some great commentary on my post about NaNoWriMo from EternalWriter and from Wicked Stepmother, both with interesting points to make. The conclusion appears to be the same, however, which is “finish your dissertation”. Although the desire to do NaNoWriMo does not appear to be as entirely off-the-wall as I thought: those who write [...]
voncookie | October 17, 2008
It just destroyed two conversations I was having. Zyxel, burn in hell!
voncookie | October 15, 2008
I’m crazy. I must be. I must be bat shit insane, because I cannot stop thinking about how I want to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. And yes, this is *on top* of the dissertation I have to write, which should serve as a substitute for NaNoWriMo, but alas, does not have the same caché. [...]
voncookie | October 14, 2008
Who is vonCookie? A word to the wise… read this carefully… it is very, very accurate Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz… You Are a Marilyn! You are a Marilyn — “I am affectionate and skeptical.” Marilyns are responsible, trustworthy, and value loyalty [...]
voncookie | October 12, 2008
My blogging mojo has been sapped by other projects and mood swings, so I’m going to take a few days off from this blog. I’ll return shortly. Talk amongst yourselves. A joke! Q: What smells like burnt grilled cheese? …. …. …. …. A: Burnt. Grilled. Cheese.
voncookie | October 10, 2008
The Connecticut Supreme Court just overturned the same-sex marriage ban. Woo-hoo! For more info go here. Equality for all! And remember, my fellow Californians, NO on Prop 8. Get out the vote!
voncookie | October 10, 2008
Fall is here! I woke up this morning to gusty winds and turning leaves and cool, cool air. Just lovely. October, October, how I love you once the heat is gone! Suddenly Autumn! The beauty of today is almost enough to calm the churning anxieties I have in me today, the ones I woke up [...]
