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Month: December 2008

  • What I learned this year

    Before I resolve anything I thought I’d reflect a bit on the past year. The great thing about a personal blog is that it allows you to look back. I wrote about two things more often than anything else: work-life balance and my frustration with lack of faculty technology knowledge and use. It’s clear that…

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  • You can never go home again

    Technically I’m in the town I grew up in but I’m not in the same house or even in the same area where most of my childhood took place. Home has not been home for me since college when my parents got divorced and the world reordered itself. Most of my friends moved away and…

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  • We made it

    After a sprint through the airport, we made the last leg of our flight to our destination. We’ve had a good night’s sleep and coffee. Let the family fun begin! — Post From My iPhone Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

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  • Travel adventures

    From Geeky Mom We’ve been attempting to get somewhere today. It started out with a 4:30 am call telling us our flight was canceled and they couldn’t get us on another flight tomorrow morning. We really wanted to get there today so we decided to fly out of Newark. The flight wasn’t until later but…

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  • Merry Christmas!

    The Geeky family is wallowing in the sloth and fullness of the season, which means things have been pretty good. Electronics reigned supreme again this year, with a new iPod and cellphone for Geeky Boy, who’s realized the costs of those two habits are going to eat up most of his allowance. Geeky Girl is…

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  • What’s Left: Shopping, Cooking, Baking, oh my

    Update: The item I wanted–canceled. Note to online sellers: if an item isn’t in stock, don’t sell it on your website. Duh. Their consolation: we didn’t charge your credit card. Normally, I’m not running around at the last minute buying stuff. I don’t like shopping and so I try to dispense with it as quickly…

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    House Envy

    A friend and I were talking over the weekend about longing for better houses. A mutual friend is in the process of buying what sounds like to both of us a fabulous place to live. We both have good houses in good locations, but we both also have things we don’t like about our houses.…

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    It’s a Wonderful Life

    I watch this movie every Christmas, sometimes twice. I remember when TNT used to show it every day for the two weeks leading up to Christmas. The first time I saw it all the way through was the Christmas after my sister died. I was staying at my then boyfriend’s house. The emotion of it…

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    Online versions of box stores suck

    No wonder box stores (I’m looking at you Target) are suffering. Their online counterparts suck. I’ve order two things–important things–for Christmas. The same day I ordered several other things from places like Amazon, Honeybaked Ham, and Overstock.com. I have tracking numbers for all of those items. A couple have already arrived and a couple more…

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  • A-Z movie meme

    I think Tim is going to regret tagging me. I have really bad taste in films. I’m much more of a book or tv show person for some reason. Mr. Geeky is the movie guy. I was, however, happy to see that Tim’s not the hugest fan of Hitchcock either. I mean, I like his…

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