Monthly Archives: October 2007

People are so entertaining. Here’s the opening of a post on Craigslist: What am I doing wrong? Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not … Continue reading →

The Graduate School has approved my request to have one of my fellowship semesters moved forward so that I don’t have to TA in the spring. This is good news, since I’m hoping to spend Hilary term at the University … Continue reading →

Sydney’s lasagna is delicious, but we both ate heartily and hardly made a dent in the large dish!  We both come from families of four, and we both tend to think of cooking in terms of four, rather than two.  … Continue reading →

Sydney just put a pumpkin lasagna in the oven (wow, I can’t believe that’s lunch around here!), but he apparently thought that wasn’t enough food, so he dug out the pumpkin pies he made yesterday to start us off.  I … Continue reading →

This summer Sydney grew really ugly pumpkins. Squash, actually, but hideously ugly all the same. Of course, Sydney vigorously disagrees. I’ll offer no response except a note that everyone who has seen these things says something like, “Whoah, does your … Continue reading →

We’ve come back from the book sale with less than half our usual cull.  By this point we own enough books that we’re not having to take what they have by the truckload.  Sydney and I each found a few … Continue reading →

is the Tompkins Public Library Book Sale. They usually have something like 200,000 books for sale (most expensive book being $4.50), and this year they’re said to have over 350,000 books. Where do you think two dissertation-beginning Ph.D. students will … Continue reading →

“The average student takes 8.2 years to get a Ph.D.; in education, that figure surpasses 13 years. Fifty percent of students drop out along the way, with dissertations the major stumbling block. At commencement, the typical doctoral holder is 33, … Continue reading →

In the middle of my class this morning I saw a couple of students looking a bit uncomfortable, and I was pretty concerned, until I saw they were transfixed by a bee that had wandered in through the window and, … Continue reading →

Sydney is the gardener in the house.  I will not be fighting him for his title any time soon.  But this fall I got an itch to plant bulbs.  The tiny crocuses, grape hyacinths, daffodils and narcissus in the spring … Continue reading →