Spending large amounts of time on an airplane is…fun. It also means that your sense of time becomes completely skewed. Today, after arriving, my body is convinced it is in Los Angeles, North Carolina, and New Zealand, all at the same time. Besides that, no confusion whatsoever. Today’s highlights: Walking around the park where IContinue reading “Day 1”
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1 day to Aotearoa
Today is packing day. After submitting my work project at 1:15 this morning, everything is a bit fuzzy on the uptake, but things are going in my bag, and they’re probably things I need. Probably. Thoughts of the morning It feels strange to be digging out my polypro and wool socks and gloves while it’sContinue reading “1 day to Aotearoa”
Words, words, words
I love words. So just for a moment, I want to exercise my geekiness rights and point out something fascinating. Reading an article for my NZ research today, I stumbled across a new word I didn’t know: pleonasm. It refers to an excess of words used to express a sentiment, sometimes as a rhetorical device,Continue reading “Words, words, words”
Research – T minus 15 days
I think today for the first time, it hit me that I’ll be traveling to New Zealand on a research grant in just over two weeks. Yikes. Can I say that again? Yikes. Thanks. All of a sudden, “plenty of time” means very little. The stack of books I was supposed to have read seemsContinue reading “Research – T minus 15 days”
Broken Glass and Knobby Cloth
“My shop burned down this week. But…” This from an elderly man who had just shown me a black-and-white photograph in a frame with cracked glass, displaying an old-fashioned weaver’s loom that had belonged to his mother, and on which he had learned to weave as a boy. I was at a local farmer’s marketContinue reading “Broken Glass and Knobby Cloth”
It’s the Little Things
Sometimes all it takes is the successful prevention of a ginormous black snake from eating an adorable tiny bunny. Allow me to illustrate. 1. (bunny) [BUSH] (snake) (Jen) 2.(bunny)[BUSH](snake) o-pebble(Jen)3.(bunny) <——- [B0USH] ->(snake)||v(Jen) (Also known as the expansion and transformation of an isosceles triangle into a scalene triangle.) (Better known as) Not on my watch,Continue reading “It’s the Little Things”
Use Your Words, New England
Although the precise moment at which one leaves “the south” and enters “the north” is far from definitive, one thing is certain: it’s a long drive getting there. Road trips are always an adventure, and spending more than 10 hours in the car in a single day is bound to add humor to otherwise mundaneContinue reading “Use Your Words, New England”
Be a Woman
Ever since I watched Nine a few weeks ago (and aided and abetted by the fact that I’ve been periodically listening to the soundtrack since then), several of the songs have taken turns getting stuck in my head: Fergie’s ‘Be Italian’ and Nicole Kidman’s ‘A Very Unusual Way’ are vying for top pick. And inContinue reading “Be a Woman”
I’m done! Linus celebrates by…
Well, I survived year one of graduate school. Halfway to the masters! Woohoo!!! Now on to a summer full of research, reading, working, sunbathing, traveling, dancing, and…dead computers. Huh. I don’t remember that on the “I can’t wait until I can–” list. The laptop I was given by the graduate school (Linus) has always hadContinue reading “I’m done! Linus celebrates by…”
Today’s Recipe
Recipe for today’s goal: IngredientsWilliam Shakespeare’s MacbethBill Cain’s EquivocationPandora’s Broadway musicalsVery quiet campus DirectionsStirBake for 11 hours Makes (I hope!)1 topic1 thesis8 or more pages of writing Outcome to be determined. Not a family favorite at this point…
Snark on the Side 