I forgot to tell you all about my trip to school on Tuesday.
I still don’t have the keys to my office and the newsroom yet, but I guess it’s not all that surprising since my contract doesn’t officially take effect until August 16th. It’s still horribly frustrating, though, to have to check in with […]

I’m having trouble getting motivated.
I’m finally starting to shake this stupid cold, and now that my head is coming out of the fog, I’m noticing how much stuff I need to get done. The problem is that I still don’t feel much like doing any of it.
I need to get up to the college […]

With BJ and me both suffering from this dread disease, I’ve noticed a few things about how different we can be, especially when we don’t feel well.
BJ, when sick, simply wants to be left alone.  A dark room, some aspirin, fluids as needed, and everyone out of the way.  No fuss, no muss.  Just everybody […]

I hate summer colds.
BJ and I have both been sick for over a week.  We’ve been chugging cough syrup, NyQuil, hot tea, and anything else we can think of to knock this thing out.
The only good thing about it is that we both have the cruds at the same time, so we’re not passing it […]

BJ and I spent the Fourth shopping. It wasn’t our usual Independence Day ritual, but it was a lot of fun.
We decided before leaving the house that, while certain errands needed tending, we would do whatever struck our fancy, and that’s just what we did. We ended up at Books-A-Million (of course!), Petco, […]

It was an addict’s dream come true.
Anyone who knows me knows all about my addition to office supplies. I can lose hours, possibly days, deciding which highlight markers are best for me, and when it comes to ballpoint pens, well, the sky is the limit. As far as I’m concerned, groceries and/or office […]

Hi.
I haven’t been around here much lately, largely because I’ve been running around like the proverbial headless chicken trying to get ready for my new job while keeping up with the current one. It’s been nuts.
I figured you all were due for an update, though, so here goes:
I went to campus today to meet […]

I’m bored.
It’s so hot outside that, even though we need to cut the grass, neither of us wants to experience heat stroke.  So we talk about cutting the grass instead.
All of my favorite cable channels seem to be having marathons today.  However, since they’re my favorites, I’ve already seen all of these episodes of Jon […]

It’s definitely shorts and t-shirts weather around here.
For some reason, we’re getting high temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s, a good fifteen to twenty degrees above normal.   It feels a lot more like late July or August than early June.
And therein lies the rub — nobody around here is used to the […]

According to the TV weather dude, it has rained here on 16 of the 18 days so far this month.  To be honest, I’m not sure we’ve missed even two days!
We did manage to get the garden planted one day between the showers, and the tomato, pepper, and radish plants are all looking good.  The […]