voncookie | February 28, 2010
Once upon a time, when I was a wee tot of almost thirteen, in the 8th grade, I was “going out” with a boy, a popular kid, a skate rat who wore jams and had long, long bangs that hung over his very blue eyes and round glasses. We flirted for a while, and then [...]
voncookie | February 27, 2010
Well, I’ve got a pile of composition drafts upon which I must comment tonight and tomorrow so that I can hand them back on Monday. They should have been handed back on Friday, but last week was akin to the Swan Song of my dissertation– long, beautiful, plaintive: FINISH ME. FINISH ME… FIN. ISH. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! [...]
voncookie | February 21, 2010
A little tidbit of news: I’ve been asked by a faculty member at Big U to teach a summer session SEMINAR on Spanish Lit. The only reason I’ll be able to teach a seminar is because by July, I will have filed. (Hell, hopefully by mid-March I will have filed!) So this will be my [...]
voncookie | February 21, 2010
11:25 a.m. Made it through 18 minutes of “A Prairie Home Companion” before I had to shut it off. Working in silence while reformatting my footnotes is preferable to Garrison Keillor’s long-winded-ness, and the way they seem to talk over each other in the skits. I hate that. Anyway! The footnotes are coming along fairly [...]
voncookie | February 21, 2010
Apolo Ohno won bronze to become the most decorated Winter Olympian tonight. Go Apolo. Dinner with maria callas the other night was *so* much fun… I really do need to socialize more. I’ve turned into an (almost) total recluse. Is no good. TooBeaut is on his way back from a massive road trip through the [...]
voncookie | February 20, 2010
I’m giving up soda for Lent. Not that I usually give up anything for Lent. But it strikes me that I drink too many soft drinks, which leach your bones of calcium, and who needs that? So I’m giving up soda for Lent. Once I tried to give up cheese for Lent. That was a [...]
voncookie | February 20, 2010
I have so. much. to. do.!!! So much, that it’s keeping me awake tonight. I got about 4 hours of sleep, and then I woke up after a strange dream — which of course I fail to remember now — and have been awake for an hour already, trying to organize the to-do list. I [...]
voncookie | February 19, 2010
Currently buried in the stacks at Big U– but not researching anything. Just here for the sake of being here. Here where it’s pretty silent, and I can put in my earbuds and listen to Bach, Mozart, or my current favorite, Debussy. Here where I don’t have to listen to (or be around) the subtle [...]
voncookie | February 17, 2010
Blessed be EndNote that formatted my perfect footnotes all these many months of writing. And cursed be MLA style that demands I reformat nearly all of them so that they’re all parentheticals. I have 326 pages of double spaced glory (now condensed to 207 as I’ve had to reformat that too so that it’s single [...]
voncookie | February 16, 2010
via velvetverbosity, the 100-word challenge, a little late… and a little racy… on the word “Thirty” ******* “Does this make us lovers?” I ask, all second-date-timid. I can see my own mascara, eyes half-closed, half-open, certainly not looking at him the way I should, the way a thirty-year-old would, with frank pleasure and bemusement. My [...]
voncookie | February 13, 2010
Schlück (definition, noun, neutral): a small amount, a sip My family–all sides of it–is typical of German immigrants that came to this country before 1917: certain traditions remain, but essentially World Wars I and II destroyed most traces of our linguistic heritage. Both my grandfathers spoke German, reinforced as it was by many years of [...]
voncookie | February 13, 2010
For those of you who don’t know, I don’t do “vacation” very well. I always feel like I need to be doing something. Lounging by the pool does not appeal, especially when you’re as pale as me and start to burn within 20 minutes, even with SPF 70 sunblock. I happen to be staying at [...]
voncookie | February 13, 2010
New POST on Fritz Lang’s cinematic gem Metropolis over at “The New Modernist”: http://thenewmodernist.org/?p=40 Heard about it on NPR this morning: that the lost footage to the silent film had been found and restored, and that it debuted last night in Berlin. More reflections at thenewmodernist.org
voncookie | February 5, 2010
4:44 pm, Friday So, I got back my conclusion today from one of the Overlords, and revisions are going to be minor, which is good, because there will have to be a minor rewrite for the section that I just rewrote in the long-suffering Ch4. So that leaves the following for me to do on [...]
voncookie | February 2, 2010
Solnushka, a blogger I happily came across via NaBloPoMo, has tagged me in a recent post, “On honest scrap,” in which she wrote ten lovely factoids about her child. (Please click on the link to this post. It’s beautifully written.) I was pondering what kind of 10 factoids I could put here in this post, [...]
