Thinking Out Loud
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. I [...]
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 [...]
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 the two I adopted had [...]
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 [...]