One Tough vonCookie

Assiduously Avoidant Since 2005

Survey for Grown-Ups

voncookie | July 15, 2009

1. What bill do you hate paying the most? all of them, all of them, all of them.  I’m a graduate student, for the love of Pete. 2. Do you miss being a child? Meh. 3. Chore you hate the most? washing dishes… ugh… memories of my grandmother’s dishwater at Thanksgiving… blech… 4. Where was [...]

The Strange Power of the Metropolitan Opera Archive

voncookie | February 13, 2008

As seen over at Uncertain Principles, there’s a new meme out there where you search the archive of the Metropolitan Opera to see what was playing the day you were born. Mine? Carmen. No comment required.

The Cities Meme

voncookie | January 12, 2008

As seen at a friend’s brother’s blog, I will now list the cities in which I spent at least one night in during the year 2007. I bet the list won’t be very long, actually, but let’s find out! (Nota bene: NOT in chronological order) Hometown, NJ New Hometown, CA Emeryville, CA Berkeley, CA Chicago, [...]

A Meme for 2008

voncookie | January 2, 2008

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? I learned how to knit socks. I changed all my light-bulbs to CFLs. I wrote a chapter of my dissertation. I sprained my ankle badly enough to need crutches—and then didn’t use them. I did research abroad, AND, while there, I learned how [...]

If You Can’t Say Anything Nice… Do Another Meme

voncookie | December 14, 2007

This one comes via Tea Leaves, another blog I’ve found since starting my adventures on Ravelry. Two names you go by: vonCookie and … wouldn’t you like to know… Two things you are wearing right now: Striped pink knee-high socks and a cheap watch that I bought in Pennsville, New Jersey at Peebles. It actually [...]

vonCookie’s Soundtrack (with an Ending Disclaimer)

voncookie | December 14, 2007

Got this from My Middle Name is Patience , and it looked like fun. For those friends of mine with blogs, consider yourself tagged! If your life were a soundtrack, what would the music be? Here’s how it works: 1. open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod) 2. put it on shuffle 3. press [...]