Change of plans: we’re going to D.C. instead of Richmond. My stepmother’s great uncle(?) who was really more like a father to her, died last night. I was in the mood to get out of town so I changed all our reservations to go to D.C. We’re planning a trip to the Museum of African…

Not Random Bullets of Craptm because, well, they’re not entirely crap. Mr. Geeky fixed my car. Hooray! Hooray! We figured it was something minor, but hadn’t had a chance to look and determine the extent of the problem. Mr. Geeky’s car, on the other hand, has similar symptoms to Dr. B’s. The kids and I…

Remind me that drinking a beer when you’re already exhausted is not conducive to writing. I had every intention last night of starting on dissertation chapter one. But as I sipped beer and read blogs, my eyes got heavier and heavier. It wasn’t even 9 o’clock! I did do some reading and I will begin…

It’s been about a year since the whole Lawrence Summers fiasco, which was perhaps my first contentious debate in the blog world. Sexism is, unfortunately, alive and well. I haven’t bothered to what’s up with Summers these days. I heard he started some study of women in science. Vegankid, in the comments to the delurking…

The bad thing about 3-day weekends is that Tuesday gets promoted to Monday. I don’t mind going to work. What I mind is the getting up. I get up fairly early on my own–between 7:30 and 8. On work/school days, I get up an hour earlier in order to have coffee and read blogs. Before…

I’m a big fan of Cooking Light, enough to finally subscribe about 6 months ago. I have been making a recipe from it here and there. This month, for some reason, I’ve made more than the normal amount, and they’ve all been good so I wanted to share, especially since I know there are others…

Update: Success!! I had to email someone and hadn’t heard from them and just thought I’d try to register again and bingo!! Yay! It’s official now. Well, everything was going swimmingly for a while. I had obtained the necessary logins, logged in to make sure it worked. I calculated how many hours I needed, asked…

So I’m off because it’s MLK day, a day which my school does not recognize as a holiday. There are events and special meals, but we all have to slog into work unless, like me, you take a personal day. We also don’t really recognize Labor Day as a holiday. Classes usually begin on that…

My favorite movie when I was little was Disney’s Winnie the Pooh movie. There’s something wonderful about Sterling Holloway’s voice. I had the record and I used to play it all the time. I had several of these record story books and I loved them. You would listen to the record and read along and…

I just got my latest heating bill. Gah! Let’s just say that it’s more than double any bill from last year. However, it’s about the same as bills from the winter before that, which was extraordinarily cold. According to the handy graphs provided by PECO, we did use more energy this year, but not an…