voncookie | May 31, 2009
The other night I had a 22-hour web design extravaganza that left me totally bereft of any desire to blog for a few days. I had a blast with the website I’m designing, SO. MUCH. FUN. Makes me wonder if I’m in the right profession. Now I’m just trying to finish up a test-run of [...]
voncookie | May 27, 2009
Can’t sleep or don’t want to sleep, can’t figure out which. As it turns out, I’m really very angry about SELLAC, even though, certain matters aside, it is probably for the best that I remain out here another year. Still, SELLAC’s rejection of me feels almost … familial… since it’s my alma mater and all. [...]
voncookie | May 26, 2009
… with a resounding “NO”. I will not be working at SELLAC next year. I will be at Big U one more year. And that’s the way it is. Huh.
voncookie | May 26, 2009
As my friend Melton said: “California sucks.” This truly does suck, my friends. But the movement for marriage equality in California will move on… somehow. Rally caps on!!!!
voncookie | May 24, 2009
Your commercials are creepy, creepy, creepy– I’m posting an embed of one of your videos, but reluctantly, and it is not the one I would choose to display. The one that freaks me out the most is the one where your Art-Deco smokers devolve into skeletons with cigarettes that line up and walk over the [...]
voncookie | May 23, 2009
The cold outside is bracing today, bracing enough to take away the mist in my head that has come with this latest migraine. The silence that resides within the broken wind has invaded my space, asking me to turn off my radio, my music, so that I can lean in and listen to it, let [...]
voncookie | May 23, 2009
I used to think that I had the makings of a novelist, that I could be the next Thomas Pynchon, or, more recently, the next David Foster Wallace (rest his soul). Now I’m not so sure. But I’m giving it a go anyway. I started a novel back in the fall, thinking that I could [...]
voncookie | May 21, 2009
It appeared in my stats– someone landed on this blog by typing “Laura Ingalls Wilder overrated”. Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder? How the HELL did someone land on this blog by typing that string when the world knows that vonCookie has made the pilgimage to the Land of Laura, that she cried when she saw Pa’s [...]
voncookie | May 20, 2009
Today I am going to learn something about Photoshop. Not Photoshop Elements. Photo. SHOP. The real deal. Q: What have I become? A: A Baby Computer-Geek. I loves the technology, I really do. This is to distract me from my dissertation, which lies (im)patiently in wait for me to edit it. This is also to [...]
voncookie | May 19, 2009
Supposed to hear from SELLAC. Need to hear from SELLAC. Phone no ringy. Dropped my parents off at the airport this morning. We had a fabulous time. Can’t wait to see the pix from graduation. I graduated. Isn’t that a hoot and a holler! SELLAC. You must call me. Today. Jedi Mind Tricks won’t work [...]
voncookie | May 18, 2009
Yesterday was the third day of fabulous; today is the day of close-to-normal; tomorrow will be back-to-normal. I am almost ready to pick up the Diss and start editing it. That’s a nice feeling. Didn’t think that would happen so quickly. Should be hearing from Big Northeast Tech School about a postdoc I applied for [...]
voncookie | May 17, 2009
Well, according to Overlord #2, I only have *1* more day of freedom, but I’m taking just one extra day to decompress after several months of intense work and a weekend jam-packed with festivities. Did I mention that the ballgame was fantastic? Except for the Giants losing, couldn’t have been better. There’s really not much [...]
voncookie | May 16, 2009
8:30 p.m. Now home from the ballgame, I can honestly say it was more than I could have even imagined. What a great, fabulous, amazing, wonderful day. And now I’m EXHAUSTED, and will be going promptly to bed… sunburnt and merry. 8:00 a.m. More than graduation, I’ve been looking forward to today’s ballgame for about [...]
voncookie | May 15, 2009
Well, today I put on my robes and my tam and get hooded by my Overlords. Even though there’s still work to be done–editing and rewriting and such–everyone seems to be in agreement that this is the year form me to walk. And the speech act that confers the Doctoral Degree, well, I guess I’m [...]
voncookie | May 13, 2009
At 10:44 a.m. on 13 May 2009, I finished the first complete draft of my dissertation. No, don’t worry… they’re happy tears.
