Ice Storm Mania
This is was our cherry tree.
Dear God, this ice storm keeps screwing with us, even though we have our power back. Today’s scary news is that The Coach didn’t receive his paycheck. You see, Rural County South of Us is completely without power. It could be another week (or even two) before the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Sh*t.
Posted in It's My Life, This F***ing Old House, tagged finances, ice storm, Weather on January 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Bent.
Posted in It's My Life, tagged ice storm, Weather on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ice Storm Aftermath
Outside my building
January 29, 2009
Oops
Posted in It's My Life, tagged ice storm, Weather on January 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Needed: A better extension cord.
Next stop: Home Depot.
Urban Survival Skills
Posted in It's My Life, This F***ing Old House, tagged ice storm, This F***ing Old House, Weather on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
48 hours and counting … We’re still without power, it’s snowing again, and we have yet to see a bucket truck in our neighborhood. We’re the last folks still in our house on our block, although there might be a poor sap in the apartment buildings across the way. House temperature: 42 degrees at eye [...]
36 Hours
Posted in It's My Life, tagged ice storm, Weather on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have now been without heat for 36 hours. Ice storms suck.
Chopping, Mashing, Cooking
Posted in The Foodie Files, tagged Food on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A colleague of mine guilted me into going to the grocery store tonight to “stock up” for the impending doom of our “biggest snowstorm of the decade.” Yeah, whatever. I have yet to see a flake of snow fall from the skies, but I did make an excellent dinner. Somehow, mashing the hell out of [...]
Cloudy, Cold, and Broke
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged bad mood on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s cold, cold, cold outside — cold enough to make my wet hair freeze into giant icicles. I’ve misplaced my hat, I can’t find my favorite gloves, and my warm brown shoes clash with the rest of my outfit. I’m in the far parking lot at school because I couldn’t get moving this morning. I [...]
Nightmarish Days, Nightmares @ Night
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged junior faculty blues on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a nightmare last night about my job. Or at least, I think it was about my job. I couldn’t really tell. It was such a hodgepodge of things, like my parents moving away and abandoning our house to bankruptcy (which happened when I was 18); being told that I was going to be [...]
My Inauguration Adventure
Posted in Politics, Travel on January 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Capitol
January 20, 2009
I could wax lyrical about the historical nature of last Tuesday’s inauguration. In fact, I was my university’s guest blogger this week, writing about history, politics, and civil rights. It was a positive blog entry. I didn’t bitch and moan about the fact that I couldn’t see squat during the actual event. [...]
Me & 2 Million of My Closest Friends
Posted in Travel, tagged inauguration, Obama, Travel, Washington DC on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Inauguration of President Barack Obama
January 20, 2009
Taken from the Silver Ticket Section, aimed towards the Washington Monument
