One Tough vonCookie

Assiduously Avoidant Since 2005

There Is Actually Too Much To Write About

voncookie | April 22, 2008

…and I’m way too tired to do it. I’ll be back later to fill in this post with some useful information. Suffice it to say that the Student Senate at Big University sucks, and that in order to give my 3-minute presentation on behalf of the Lit Mag, I had to wait around in Senate [...]

Sleep of the Damned: 4 a.m. This Time, Why So Cruel?

voncookie | April 20, 2008

It’s the Lit Mag. The Lit Mag waking me up at 4 a.m., worried about the budget for next year. Funny thing is… I’m not going to be doing the Lit Mag next year. However, all solicitations for funding for next year are due this year, so I’m stuck writing them once again. Not that [...]

Sleep of the Damned: Knitting & Grading & Writing & Drama

voncookie | March 12, 2008

All I want to do these days is knit. Just knit myself into a stupor, until I have carpal tunnel syndrome, until I have so many pairs of socks, so many scarves, so many afghans and throws that my apartment looks like an old folks’ home. When I’m not knitting, I want to be sleeping, [...]

When Life Won’t Stand Still, You Shouldn’t Expect to Sleep Well

voncookie | March 11, 2008

I don’t know what I was thinking going to bed a little bit early, even just a half hour early… Here it is, almost 1 a.m., I have to teach tomorrow, I have to be on my toes tomorrow, and instead I’m up in my fake-silk charmeuse pajamas from Target wondering, where did I go [...]

It’s 3:18 a.m., I’m Awake, & I Blame the Lit Mag

voncookie | March 6, 2008

Sleep of the Damned, Entry #8 billion and one: Dear Lit Mag, Why must you interrupt a perfect night’s sleep in the way that you have? Why must your budget be so tight, and why must random people be criticizing you for the way in which you spend that money? Doesn’t everyone realize that handling [...]