After completing my latest exam this past weekend, I gave serious thought to stopping my pursuit of a master’s degree in English. I have, after all, completed the graduate certificate in technical communication that I returned to school to pursue. I signed up for the master’s program on impulse, the way other people get tattoos, [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Maybe I should get a tattoo instead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bachelor's degree, college, English, graduate school, history, job, journalism, literature, master's degree, tattoo, travel, UAH, USM, vacation, weekend on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pocket full of stop it
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cartoons, morning, music on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Each of the past three mornings, I’ve awakened with a different song running through my head. They are, in order: The theme from Spongebob Squarepants Celebrate Good Times by Kool and the Gang Pocket Full of Sunshine by Natasha Bedinfield Explanations? Do I even want to know?
Return of the blog
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Semester’s end approaches, meaning more time for blogging and half-price margaritas on Thursday nights. In the meantime I’m exploring a new category of tag questions for a linguistics project. A digitized collection of old photos from Scancafe is on its way to my mailbox, meaning plenty of material for summer postings.
Outrunning a thousand things
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brother, career, childhood, children, dysfunction, family, farm, father, hobbies, home, hurricane, mississippi, mother, South, Texas, tragedy on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Speaking to a friend from Texas today, I noted that Southern families, or maybe just farming families in general, seem to have tragedies woven into their histories, generation after generation. This probably isn’t a fair assessment – Northerners have plenty of dysfunction, too, no? – but it’s what I know. Southerners can be shockingly straightforward [...]
