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But I’m taking today off. I got home around 1:00 a.m. But let’s start at the beginning. I arrived and got registered in time to attend a 10:15 session, “Rhetoric, Composition, Writing: Affinities, Tragectories, Discontinuities” with Cheryl Glenn and Kathleen Yancey. Doug Hesse was supposed to be there as well, but instead Kathy read his…
I’m headed to the MLA today. Don’t ask why. It’s complicated. I feel like the girl who couldn’t get a date to the prom and goes anyway, only to hang out in the corner, hoping someone will ask her to dance. Only no one does. I don’t really do well at these big conferences. I’m…
We’re in the slump between Christmas and New Year’s when we mostly lie around and play with our new Christmas gifts. I’m planning to hop over to the MLA. Geeky Boy has a birthday party today. We have a New Year’s party to attend and then it will be back to work and school. I…
I left the salt out of the biscuits. The ice cream pie was a total mess but really, really tasty. All in all a great success! Wishing you all a peaceful evening. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
We have our big holiday meal on Christmas Eve so today is a day to get ready. I’ll be doing a little rushing around, all in preparation for relaxing and doing nothing for a couple of days. The menu for the meal is: roast baked asparagus with cheese glazed carrots sweet potato biscuits hot fudge…
The winter solstice ritual was called Lenaea, the Festival of the Wild Women. In very ancient times, a man representing the harvest god Dionysos was torn to pieces and eaten by a gang of women on this day. Later in the ritual, Dionysos would be reborn as a baby. By classical times, the human sacrifice…
I do own a holiday sweater, but I doubt I’ll wear it this year. Worse, I own a holiday vest which depicts the 12 days of Christmas. Growing up, we never had holiday wear. Socks maybe. My mother never sported a bright red sweater with Rudolph on it. My dad might have had a Christmas…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve become more aware of this particular kind of man who eats lunch out or does business with “clients” in coffee shops. I find them very annoying and yet fascinating. These guys are well-dressed, generally in suits or in hip business casual attire. They often have those bluetooth earpieces, making…
As seen in The Clutter Museum, post the first sentence of the first post for each month. January: This is the first new year’s eve in a while where I’ve overindulged. February: I didn’t listen to the SOTU, but I read summaries and listened to the coverage of it on NPR this morning. March: Both…
The presents have been bought and wrapped and shipped. Can we just have Christmas tomorrow and be done with it? Personally, being the atheist I am, I’d rather celebrate the solstice on Thursday. Let’s have a Saturnalia celebration or something. I’m kind of bummed that the kids aren’t out of school yet. We could be…
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