Yes, you read that title correctly.  I wore a dress today, and I was at work in a professional environment.  I went to a meeting or two, I spoke with students.  I interacted with co-workers and my boss(es).  All with one shaved leg. It was a weird morning that involved waking up at 5:30 and…

As I get closer and closer to the wedding day, I start to think about the big things in life.  Things like what to put in my pockets. (The hurricane was fine, by the way.  Feeling very grateful about that.  Grateful and relieved.) The good thing about my current mindset is that it means I’m…

So it’s a week and a day before wedding day (yay!), and Hurricane Irene is trying to make that last weekend of singleness as exciting as possible.  Or terrifying.  One of the two.  My house is stocked with lots of water and roughly a metric ton of nonperishable snack food (Cliff bars, Odwalla bars, stuff I’m usually too cheap…

Well, I’m writing again.  Sort of. I’m writing to say that I will someday start writing again. Here’s what’s going on: 1) My new job requires that I work at turbo speed from the minute I step in the door to the minute I leave.  I hear that’s temporary, because I started the job during…

My main observation from this weekend wasn’t about the Fourth of July or patriotism or anything like that.  We drove through some small mountain towns and lots of beautiful mountain non-towns (also known as trees with the occasional house along the road).  It was good. One of my favorite things about the drive, other than…