10. It doesn't bother me at all that my college roommate is making $80,000 a year on Wall Street.
9. I'd be delighted to proofread your book/chapter/article.
8. My work has a lot of practical importance.
7. I would never date an undergraduate.
6. Your latest article was so inspiring.
5. I turned down a lot of great job offers to come here.
4. I just have one more book to read and then I'll start writing.
3. The department is giving me so much support.
2. My job prospects look really good.
1. No really, I'll be out of here in only two more years.
Insomnia This post is here because it is three-thirty in the morning and I cannot sleep. I could post profound thoughts here on the subject of insomnia, but am somewhat hampered in that effort in that it took me a full minute to think of the word "subject."
posted by Kecia 3:26 AM
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Hrm. Playing with commentses again. Apparently neither my computer nor Matthew's will allow me to save changes to the template for this, so I'm hashing it out in the grad student office - So far, not so good.
So now I've resorted to asking the Haloscan people for help. *sigh* I'm going Thanksgiving grocery shopping now, though! Turkey, here I come!
posted by Kecia 3:31 PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Birthday September 3rd:
Beautiful but full of melancholy
attractive
very empathic
loves anything beautiful and tasteful
loves to travel
dreamer
restless
capricious
honest
can be influenced but is not easy to live with
demanding
good intuition
suffers in love but finds sometimes an anchoring partner.
Outrage There are no words strong enough to describe how I feel about the author of this article. So I won't even try. Click and see for yourself.
posted by Kecia 9:35 PM
OotP
Hollow. I feel hollow.
It's just so . . . different.
Edited to add: Arabella's opinions align with mine, in a far more powerful and accurate way than I could have shared them. Spoilers included, so click at your own risk.
posted by Kecia 5:21 PM
On Photography MBSatGT: why is everyone so expensive?
Lyrelle: that's what i'm saying. the only ones in our price range SUCK
Lyrelle: :-(
MBSatGT: that could be because our price range sucks
MBSatGT: :-(
Lyrelle: oh.
Lyrelle: well, yes.
posted by Kecia 11:35 AM
Argh! I am such a dork. There is a dress on ebay that I have unthinkingly allowed my heartstrings to wrap around. Unfortunately, I would have to lose ~15 inches around my waist to fit into it. Which means, of course, that I can't bid on it. If it were five inches, maybe. But not fifteen.
But it is calling me . . .
(and no, I haven't posted about AtE yet. I can't bring myself to. one more chapter and it will be *over,* and I don't want to think about that.)
posted by Kecia 8:01 PM
Friday, June 06, 2003
Dragons & Ribbons A very good sort of story. Just the thing to while away the hours until the next chapter of AtE . . .
posted by Kecia 9:18 AM
Quote of the Morning A kiss is a contraction of the mouth
Due to an enlargement of the heart
posted by Kecia 8:17 AM
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
For Those of You in The Know:
We found a lodge with an attached chapel. The lodge part can be viewed here. A theoretical reception site can be viewed here. Also, check your calendars for the end of May next year . . . it's looking more and more like that'll be the date.
Rumor has it that a chapter of AtE went to beta today . . . minions, be on alert!
posted by Kecia 5:20 PM
For the Stalkers out There: I decided (mostly because I can, and because I can't sleep) to post pictures of what my house (well, my living room, really) looks like when it's actually clean, which very rarely occurs. This is probably of no interest whatsoever to anyone but my mom; I didn't have the energy or the time to clean before she came to visit.
Now you know. This particular bout of cleaning was inspired by the impending visit of Matthew's sister and her husband. More people should come visit, so we'd clean more often. The living room does not at all match the pictures these days . . . and besides, then people could come duckpin bowling with us. We're all about spreading the love of duckpin bowling. (Below is Jennifer and Matthew S. proudly displaying their duckpin scores.)
I can hear bottle rockets going off under my window. This makes me jumpy, as I can never quite forget that I live in one of the more hated cities in the world . . .
I've been posting a lot of pictures lately. Does this interfere with/increase anyone's browsing pleasure? Questions? Comments? Snide remarks?
I'm still awakeful. Which is bad, because I have to be at work early tommorrow because we're expanding into hostile territory - that is, the lab next door. We make more money for the school than they do, and we need the space, so we get it. John and I are not actually thrilled about being involved, but we have little choice; we're just peons in the whole process. So tommorrow I have to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed so I can carry heavy objects into a dirty, hostile room. Yay.
