We got back from the school board meeting sometime after 11 PM then stayed up until 2 or so.  Hence, just getting around to writing at 9:20 this morning.  My defense begins at 3 PM and I have a couple errands to run before then.
Tina Turner has figured out how to get out of the [...]

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I was just thinking about purchasing the first season of The West Wing, which has to be one of my all-time favorite television shows. Then, poking around SLATE, I found this interesting comparison between the final season and this year’s presidential election season:

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Later this afternoon, Bob and I are going to drive over to the school district that I will be using for my dissertation research.  I have the approval of the administration but need to do a short presentation for the school board.  Then, tomorrow is my defense.  Wow!  After four years, I am very much [...]

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Back from the conference where it seemed like I was moving every minute.  It is nice to be home without a huge to do list today.  Plus, If we can get the VSTE ning community going, I should be able to interact with the folks from the conference even though it’s over.
Today’s main job is [...]

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Finishing off my Wolfgang Puck coffee, reviewing netvibes and email, and I was rewarded. From a friend who just bought a Wii, a very funny video. It got removed from YT but was still working on MySpace. Let’s try again:

The video was done by Team Good Life and I’m still singing the song. [...]

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My tradition with the hand-written morning pages had been to start writing about how I slept.  And, I must say, I slept pretty well for a hotel room.  I’ve already had a cup of in-room coffee (one of my favorite things about hotels) and am fixing to take a shower.  I don’t have to be [...]

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Since December 2000, I have been writing morning pages, a creativity technique espoused by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way. Three pages of long hand writing. First thing. And, it used to be the first thing I did. Then, I adopted two more dogs for a total of three and [...]

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After almost exactly a year of work, I turned in my dissertation proposal to my committee yesterday.  My advisor has already returned it with some suggested changes, but she assures me that it is not because I am a slacker.  It is 125 pages after all.
This is all very exciting but also a little overwhelming [...]

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