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Showing posts with label meme. Show all posts

Saturday, January 1, 2011

UR 2010 in Review!!

What a year!  (If you are really bored, here is 2009 and 2008.)



January:  Credit goes to all over the freakin' blogosphere, such as here and here and here.  (From "2009 Year in Review")


February: There is perhaps nothing more entertaining to students than a professor teaching under the influence of lots of cold medication. (From "Teaching under the influence?")


March: The hiring process is not fun on either side. (From "Googling candidates")


April: Last year, as many of you know, I was a visiting ass. at a small college. (From "Visiting Vixens")


May: I'm pretty low maintenance. (From "Taming the Talons")


June: Yes, prior to class so they/I can write on them.  (From "Should powerpoints be available to students?")


July: I hope all you Canucks out there had a great one! (From "Happy Canada Day!")


August: The Prodigal Academic has a great post up about the current state of the job market. (From "dying for your work?")


September: The reason I blog is _________________. (From "Friday fill in the blanks: why do you blog?")


October: The highlight of my week was _____________. (From "Friday fill in the blanks: the high point of the week")


November: The dumbest thing I saw this week was ______________ . (From "Friday fill in the blanks: that's pretty dumb")


December: This past weekend, something happened for the first time since October. (From "At clothing capacity?")




Was 2010 memorable?

Friday, January 1, 2010

2009 Year in Review

Credit goes to all over the freakin' blogosphere, such as here and here and here. I've seen this at too many of your homes to count, so if you've done this meme (or some variation) please make some noise below. And happy 2010! (2008 was pretty exciting, too.)


Let's recap the year with the first sentence from the first post of each month.

January: This week a student made an appointment to talk about last semester's final exam. (From "Thank you; may I please have another?")

February: The other night I had my most Miranda moment to date. (From "Death by chocolate")

March: Who needs spring break more: undergrads or faculty members? (From "A question for the masses: gimme a break")

April: My DVR is 97% full. (From "How busy am I?")

May: Dear googlers, When you google "how to cheat with calculators" or for other cheating tips (like How To Fool That Bitch Professor), the post of mine that comes up is this one. (From "How students cheat: a youtube sampling")

June: My fridge/freezer/cupboards contain the following foodstuffs: (From "feeding frenzy")

July: Lots of firsts this weekend! (From "weekend of firsts")

August: My mother has had the same microwave since 1984. (From "How much would you pay for a microwave?")

September: Well, my darlings, I got it. (From "Flu policies")

October: I know that I'm an amazing professor. (From the not-so-modest "Boosting the ego")

November: As the semester winds down, it's a good time to reflect back on the last months. (From "Finally getting some")

December: I'm not sure students here at PermaU really understand that once they have a Judicial Committee ruling against them (cheaters! cheaters!), some professors will never view them in the same light again. (From "Judging the judged")

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2008 in Review

As seen over at What a recently tenured college professor shouldn't be doing... (which has one of the best urls ever...check it out!)

Addy did this with the year 2006, but since UR didn't exist then, I'm going to use this year. I think it's pretty neat!


Rules: take first sentence of first post of each month.

January 2008: People find my site through a wide range of google terms (some on google and some on google blogsearch). (The month I tried to find any activity that would distract me from looming job interviews.)

February 2008: Yeah, that's me. (Hmmm...this could be referring to so many things.)

March 2008: I absolutely do not believe in love at first sight. (At this point, N.A. and I were already in love. I never would have thought I'd find someone like him, if you had asked me this time last year.)

April 2008: Well, N.A. and I made it through our first trip. (And we're still going strong!)

May 2008: In my department there is an unwritten code of conduct among graduate students. (I'm much happier now that I'm in a relatively politics-free department. Switching to a new school in the fall-- I hope!-- is going to be a big adjustment.)

June 2008: Yesterday, at a thesis defense, I had difficulty seeing the whole screen. (Oh.....how many strange faculty members there are at LargeU. Now I'm in a department with colleagues that are (mostly) quirk free.)

July 2008: Now you know I'm not one to criticize others' child-rearing skills (ha, ha), but I feel like the following warrants (at least a little) judgement: (Worst places to encounter ill-behaved rugrats: planes, trains, and churches.)

August 2008: ...well, at least for this moment. (Hmmm...)

September 2008: I hate hate hated group work when I was a student. (And I still do, although I use it in almost every lecture.)

October 2008: Last week, I gave my students their first exam. (They liked that one. Not so much on the later exams.)

November 2008: I've been gone all week at my first conference as a (semi) Real Professor. (I'm completely comfortable with the Dr title now. I still bristle whenever someone calls me "Mrs" or "Ms." I'm not sure that will go away, at least when I'm in the classroom.)

December 2008: Driving a huge, gas-guzzling SUV with expensive, tricked out snow tires is super safe. (I. Hate. SUVs in the winder.)



Hope you are all having a wonderful, alcohol-drenched start to 2009!

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Movie Mania Meme

As seen at juniorprof and junction potential (go check 'em out!)...and probably loads others of you as well. I tag all of you that want to play, just comment so that we can all click over to see your totals. Also, if you have any links to other fun / semifun / time wasting memes, please comment below. The semester is only a few weeks away, so I need to start compiling a list of procrastination possibilities.


I'm not really that much into movies. (My netflix account is almost exclusively used for TV shows.) I haven't seen many of the "classic" ones (define that as you will), so this should be interesting.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
( ) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) KING KONG
Total so far: 6

( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving -MAS
( ) Flubber (orignal only)
Total so far: 8

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 11

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 15

( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremacy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled (original only)
(x) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 21

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
( ) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 25

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
( ) The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 32

( ) X-Men
( ) X2
( ) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
( ) Freaky Friday (original only)
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
(x) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total so far: 39 (I think?)

(x) Swimfan
( ) Miracle on 34th street
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Kippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 44

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring (I will say it: THIS IS SUCH A BORING MOVIE! Pretty, yes.)
( ) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
( ) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 48

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
( ) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
(X) American History (Is this American History X??)
( ) Three
Total so Far: 50

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
( ) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
Total so far: 53

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
( ) Dawn of the Dead
(x) Hook
( ) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
( ) 28 days later
(x) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld
Total so far: 55

( ) Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
(x) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 56

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
( ) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back [I agree with Dante, this is the best]
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 61

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
( ) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal
Total so far: 65

( ) Battle Royale
( ) Battle Royale 2
( ) Brazil
(x) Contact
( ) Cube
( ) Dr. Strangelove
( ) Enlightenment Guaranteed
(x) Four Rooms
(x) Memento
(x) Pi
( ) Requiem for a Dream
(x) Pulp Fiction
(x) Reservoir Dogs
(x) Run Lola Run
( ) Russian Ark
( ) Serenity
( ) Sin City
( ) Snatch
( ) Spider
(x) The Sixth Sense
( ) The Village
( ) Waking Life
( ) Zatoichi
( ) Ikiru
( ) The Seven Samurai
( ) Brick
( ) Akira
Total so far: 73

Hmmm...seems that I have a lot of movie watching to do!

Friday, December 26, 2008

100 Things I've Done

I first saw this over at The Happy Scientist, and I've since seen it all over the blogosphere.

1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars We camped... a *lot* as a family.
3. Played in a band Marching counts, right?
4. Visited Hawaii Probably one day, although neither N.A. nor I are particularly beach-oriented people.
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity It was a little touchy in grad school, but I always stayed in the black.
7. Been to Disneyland/world Went with band. I was not impressed.
8. Climbed a mountain Just some really tall hills. Oh, I did a 2000 ft hike in Central America....does that count?
9. Held a praying mantis Whywhywhywhywhy?
10. Sung a solo I have a *terrible* voice. No one would want me to do that.
11. Bungee jumped Again....whywhywhywhywhy?
12. Visited Paris Looooooved it!
13. Watched lightning at sea
14. Taught myself an art from scratch I'm not really that artsy.
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning Mmmm.... projectile vomiting...good times.
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty Can you even walk to the top anymore?
18. Grown my own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train I found the back-and-forth motion quite soothing!
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked Ummmmm.....no!
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill Muhahahaha.... actually, I haven't done that since high school!
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb I'm not really down with barn animals.
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse I don't think I've lived anywhere where a total solar eclipse has been viewable in my lifetime...I've seen partial ones....I remember making a viewing box back in school!
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset I usually miss sunset, and actually more frequently see the sunrise. So sad.
31. Hit a home run I was the kid that caused all the parents to groan when I came up to bat. Yes, I sucked THAT much at softball.
32. Been on a cruise While an Alaskan cruise is tempting, I think I've seen too many 20/20 episodes with blacklights to truly relax and enjoy a cruise.
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught myself a new language (another thing I've daydreamed doing.)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied I think that is where I am now. Being truly satisfied means that I'm paying all my bills and still socking away money for the down payment for the house.
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David Is that in Florence? I would loooove to go there!
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had my portrait painted What do I look like, a princess?
48. Gone deep sea fishing I only caught a tiny one. It was sad.
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China Not *yet*
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving Whywhywhywhywhy?
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check oops!
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy It's a pillow. I'll save that store for another post.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar Salty!
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone Just a toe!
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book Binding my thesis was a truly awesome experience!
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car Hahahahahahaha! No.
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous I'm counting famous scientists (hahahaha!)
92. Joined a book club HAHAHAHA....should we all count journal club???
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee Turns out, I'm quite allergic!
100. Ridden an elephant (at the zoo)

Thursday, November 27, 2008

5 things Meme

Overwhelmed by a food coma, this seems to be the perfect time for a meme.
Tagged by EcoGeoFemme

5 Things I was doing 10 years ago

1. Trying to decide if I would apply to additional colleges.
2. Off school for my trimester break. (I *loved* being on trimesters in high school)
3. Fighting a wicked case of mono.
4. Listening to a lot of Tool.
5. Dreaming of having a car of my own (I finally bought one, more than 5 years later.)

5 Things on my to do list today

1. Be nicer to N.A.
2. Map out the shopping route for tomorrow. (no, Mom and I will *not* be shopping at 5 am)
3. Figure out this whole college loan repayment thing. (I've been deferring up until now, so I've completely ignored the whole situation.)
4. Eat pie.
5. Watch Survivor!

5 snacks I love

1. Chocolate crossiants
2. Gouda on french bread
3. Cheerios and soymilk
4. Chocolate-covered coffee beans
5. Oatmeal

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire

1. Buy a Prius
2. Buy a house
3. More travel (some trips off the top of my head: Japan, Australia, and Argentina)
4. Travel to meet my sponsor child (the organization I go through actually helps facilitate trips like this)
5. Pay off my mom's house

5 places I've lived

1. A very, very hot city
2. A very, very cold city
3. LargeUtown
4. California
5. TempCollege Village

5 jobs I've had

1. Plant pot washer at a nursery
2. Day care worker
3. High school teacher
4. Grad student
5. College prof!

I tag.....anyone too full to think of a non-meme post. If you do this meme, be sure to comment so that we can all go read your answers!

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Another meme

I've seen this several times already, and I'm not sure what it's supposed to indicate? Maybe how academic your childhood was? Privilege? I dunno. What I do know: 1. I'm the product of academic parents. 2. I truly believed that we were super poor up until I was about 13 (we were quite securely in middle to upper middle class, and my mom swears that she didn't intentionally give us kids this impression...more on THAT later). 3. It's six days before I teach, and I'm sitting at home, drinking coffee, and blogging (did I mention that post-graduate school is WONDERFUL???).

So the plan is to bold the statements that apply. I'll of course add my wonderful little comments to each.

1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college Actually, now that I think of it, all of my living relatives either have graduated or are currently in college (or are too young!). What an over-educated bunch!
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor All three!
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. What an odd question. I'm assuming that this means economic class...but how tacky. I refuse to answer!!
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home. Um, no. We had libraries for that!
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18. Hmm...let's see: swimming, piano...yeah I think that's it.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed I'm not sure what that means. I wear jeans and T-shirts...?
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18. Yes, but only for emergencies, and I had to pay for it. I think my parents did a really good job of teaching us kids how to manage money (and especially credit cards!!)
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs. Um, hell no. We all knew from a very young age (I can remember being told this in second grade??) that we would have to cover our own college tuition.
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs. Nope, again.
16. Went to a private high school. For half of it. Switched to public for my jr/sr years.
17. Went to summer camp. No, we spent our summers with some good, ole, family bonding via road trips!!
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels. Actually, no! We used to pray and wish for rain so that we could stay in a hotel (instead of camping for the night).... my mom know claims that our roadtrips (often 2+ weeks on the road) involved plenty of hotel stays, but I think her memory might be going....
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18. My mom made all of my clothes until I was 13. At the time, I didn't mind, but I think this was another reason I really though we were super-poor. Looking back, I was the scrawniest of scrawny children, so she probably did this because I was so hard to fit into store-bought clothes!
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. I didn't have a car until senior year of college-- and I bought it myself.
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child. Other than our own??
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home.
25. You had your own room as a child
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course. I was always pretty good at standardized tests, which today I find funny since I'm terrible at multiple choice tests usually.
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school. Hell no. We weren't allowed to watch TV on weekdays, and on weekends we had to stick to Nickelodeon for the sake of the younguns.
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college. Hahahahahahaha
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16. Yes, but we only few twice as a whole family up until I was 20.
31. Went on a cruise with your family. I've seen too many 20/20s with black lights to ever want to go on one!!
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up. We went to lots of museums, but mostly we stuck to national parks.
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. I never knew the cost, but my parents always kept the heating really, really low.

Monday, June 16, 2008

I'm convinced that the longer I was in grad school, the dumber I got. This is probably in large part to the very little pleasure reading (and the quality of what I *did* read) I got accomplished.

Or perhaps it has more to do with the fact that I had to spend something like >75% of my waking hours thinking about very specialized areas of science (with the occasional connection to...uh...other areas of science).

As you will see below, I am in sore need of some summer reading.


As seen at ProfessingMama:

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded [or were bookclub choices that you never read that month]. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you read for school.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes: A memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud
Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit (and I freakin hated it)
In Cold Blood: A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Thursday, June 5, 2008

4 Meme

*I tag anyone who wishes to do this meme! Just let me know if you do so that I can be sure to check out your answers!


Four jobs I've had
1. Tomato picker
2. Babysitter
3. High school teacher
4. Preschool teacher

Four movies I can watch over and over
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Bring it on (shut. up.)
3. Love Actually
4. um....yeah, I don't usually watch movies more than once.

Four places I've lived
1. Kansas
2. Texas
3. Canada
4. Indiana

Four TV shows I love
1. The Soup
2. Lost
3. Top Chef
4. Sex and the City

Four places I've vacationed
1. Barcelona
2. Paris
3. Costa Rica
4. Mississippi

Four foods I love
1. Marzipan
2. Gouda
3. Cereal...pretty much all kinds
4. Salmon

Four websites I frequent
1. pubmed
2. passiveaggressivenotes.com (this is one of the funniest websites I've seen in awhile)
3. perezhilton.com
4. blogs of note

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Six word meme

Well, NA and I made it safely out of SAI. (This of course means that we will have a horrible trip back, but I will try not to think of this now.)

A Lady Scientist tagged me for this. Here's the instructions:

1. Write your own six word memoir

2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like

3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere

4. Tag five more blogs with links

5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play


My memoir...at least of March 2008:

Slept too little, stressed too much




I think you should all do this meme... write your memoir for the last month, for grad school, for life, etc. ...just comment below so I know and can check it out.