February 2006
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Self-Portrait Sunday Weekend update Last weekend was chock full of exceptionally unpleasant things, including my period and the flu. My parents were in town, which was originally cause for joyous celebration. However, their visit unfortunately turned into them nursing me back to health with soup, juice, Tylenol, and a variety of herbal remedies while I moaned from my bed. Bella, bless her heart,...
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Dating Advice from TJ RE: Attire TJ: how goes it? Drew: I have the flu. Correction, the plague. You? TJ: I just got my Pabst Blue Ribbon tracksuit in the mail and am thrilled to death. Drew: It should be your uniform. TJ: I’m kind of courting this female currently, but when the courting is done, the tracksuit will be worn constantly. With my one-piece 80’s sunglasses. Drew:...
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Thanks For Being Born, Hon Today D celebrates his 21st year on the planet. Happy birthday, darling.
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Heather Has Two Mommies and Videoblogs at Smith A few days ago, an article focusing on my blog and vlog appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article is available here, although you must be a subscriber to access the complete text. Typically, I am all for publicity. I enjoy people exploring my blog and sharing their own work and life experiences with me. All and all, I see the...
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Be Mine After a brief weekend stay, D headed back to warmer climates this morning. A lovely time was had by all.
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Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) Forgive the ABBA reference, but my MR. is coming to town Being the perky and popular co-ed that I am, I have quite the weekend of celebrations ahead of me. As you know, D will be gracing Smith College with his lovely presence until Tuesday afternoon. Between his arrival in a few short hours and an afternoon bus out of town on Valentine’s Day, we will...
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Fresh Faced, Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed What happens when Smith’s most likely to succeed turn pre-professional? You get this: Now, I’m no Nina Garcia, but I must admit that I would hire Hoffman as my right-hand woman based upon this picture alone. Look at that take-charge attitude. Get a load of that outfit. Two words: task master. click to enlarge As you can see, we still have a...
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Media Matters Is it wrong that I have a slightly inapropriate thoughts about media critic, academic and activist Robert McChesney? Granted he needs a new hairstyle, but homeboy wasn’t looking too shabby in the old clip of NOW I saw last night. David Branaccio, however, has the tinge of a gum eraser. click to enlarge
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Enjoying: Breed ‘em and Weep I Was Just Thinking the Same Thing When I was thirteen or so, I remember thinking that marriage was going to be really exhausting, because I would need to get up at four or five in the morning every day to slap on a full face of makeup before my husband woke up, and then I would need to stay awake until midnight or later, until he went to bed, so I could...
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Self-Portait Sunday
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Status: Undeliverable I currently have eight folders in my email account. Among them are Work, Photos, Home, and D. My favorite, however, is Saved Spam. You see, over the course of a year or so I’ve developed the habit of saving particularly interesting unsolicited messages. Some of them threaten to take Kristin Thomas out of business. The following landed in my mailbox this afternoon from...