voncookie | September 5, 2010
I guess I’m blogging again. Funny. maria callas told me a few weeks ago that I would get back into it. I said “no, no, no” because I couldn’t imagine what I’d have to blog about, since I try not to blog about specific things about work/students/people I know. Or rather, I try not to [...]
voncookie | August 28, 2010
This is my first year as a minted Ph.D. and I thought it might be fun, years and years from now, to reflect on this process that is the transition from graduate student to professional. And let me start by saying, quite simply, that it’s much harder that I thought. Than *anybody* thought. And yet… [...]
voncookie | July 13, 2010
Every July, it seems, I experience some sort of hiccup during the first week or two, be it an episode of Batshit Insane, as it was in the late ’90s, or some sort of trauma (see the entries from July ’09 for more on that), or blatant physical illness, as it was this year. I [...]
voncookie | June 26, 2010
I can’t remember when I bought it. Maybe in high school? Perhaps in Oxford? At HNEU or SELLAC? I’ve completely forgotten. A t-shirt, a terrific t-shirt that read the following: Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, there was a moo-cow coming down along the road and this moo-cow that was [...]
voncookie | June 11, 2010
On the recent flight to Hometown, NJ from Liberal Paradise, I discovered a few very interesting things: It can take me upwards of a half an hour to read ONE POEM, even if it’s a poem I’ve read dozens of times before. A HALF HOUR!!! WTF?!?! Those same poems, again, even if I’ve read them [...]
voncookie | June 6, 2010
This morning, walking around the block in the early sleepy Sunday hours, I saw the fog rolling in over the hill behind my house. Long sheets of fog, drifting as the white linens on my Grandma’s clothes line in Baltimore used to do when I was a child. I wanted to run through the fog, [...]
voncookie | June 5, 2010
¡Ay! ¡Dolor! Me duele decirlo pero… … tengo que echar (throw out) mis zapatos de sangre. It pains me to say it, but I have to throw out my zapatos de sangre that I bought in Madrid in 2007. The ones that cut into my heels and caused me ridiculously painful open blisters when I [...]
voncookie | May 30, 2010
And I’m not talking about California or the desert Southwest. I am finding myself without much to say, even on Twitter or Ubiquitous Social Networking Time-Suck. How many status updates can I post that say, essentially and in so many words, “I got nuthin’.” …yeah… … I got nuthin’.
voncookie | May 27, 2010
Things that make me feel like I’ve been living too long in the Ivory Tower: I hate the whole phenomenon of “Sex and the City” and wish they would put it out of it’s misery, because 100% straight girls are entirely too annoying and superficial. Millennials make me feel like a fuddyduddy, not because I [...]
voncookie | May 22, 2010
A friend of mine on Ubiquitous Social Networking Time-Suck that it will be her and her husband’s 12-year wedding anniversary tomorrow. That means that on Tuesday I’ll be celebrating (?) a 12-year mark of my own. Discretion prevents me from saying the exact nature of the anniversary, but suffice it to say that it was [...]
voncookie | April 17, 2010
It’s a beautiful day in Liberal Paradise, although it’s starting to smog up a bit, and I think I know why — About 3 million other people and I went out for a drive in the late morning/early afternoon, either to get someplace else, or to just… drive for the sake of driving, which is [...]
voncookie | April 2, 2010
The lollipop, the one that they give you after you turn in your signature page and your surveys, says just that: PhinisheD. They hand you a certificate of completion, hand you the lollipop, and shake your hand with a long, drawn out “CON-GRAT-U-LA-TIOOOOOOOOONS!” And then, just like that, it’s over. You’re done. And there you [...]
voncookie | March 27, 2010
We all know that I’m facing what could be a possibly disastrous battle with unemployment this fall. Joy = filing dissertation. Pain = no more graduate school safety net, including no health insurance. BAD! (Let’s hear it for HCR, though, which may actually make this situation a lot more tolerable.) What with all the uncertainty, [...]
voncookie | March 9, 2010
As maria callas pointed out, there have been a lot of numbers floating around my blog lately. And yesterday, TooBeaut drew my attention to the fact that all these numbers, plus tweets about NaNoWriMo and such sort of add up to something: I am in search of the Next Big Project. Now that The Market [...]
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 [...]
