never go home

I’ve started a new blog to collect my thoughts about school.  I won’t abandon this one since it will remain the spot to collect my thoughts about my dog, wife, friends, family, and dinner.  The new blog is: ilsdnw.com and features a 3 column style (new to me) and rotating headers!  I will be featuring my collection [...]

i “upgraded” my blog software and i thought i had lost all of my blog for a second…more like 4 hours. anyway, it is coming back slowly but surely. you will see the sidebars and everything will be nice and new again.

I have a couple of books to loan/give out if anyone wants some late summer reading material:
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel: This is a great coming of age story done in graphic novel form. Sorta like Dave Eggers but by a lesbian with a different story.
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. [...]

A big congratulations to Dr. Hectic and Ms. Cupcakes who have announced their engagement from the island of Ocracoke! Assuming they are getting married next year (and assuming we’re invited), that means four weddings and four babies* are being conducted/produced by our friends and acquaintances over the next 12 months or so.
*None of those [...]

My comments are doing funky things. I just found a bunch of comments waiting in a moderation queue that I didn’t know I had (sorry Danni). Please do comment! I will work on upgrading my blog to the latest WordPress version which should help things… And yes, Danni, that is Sonja [...]

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I can’t wait to celebrate your birthday with a dog party in just a couple of days!

My one splurge in the fall will be a trip to Austin for the Austin City Limits Festival September 14-16 (I am flying in on the 13th, out on the 17th). I bought two tickets with the intention of brining E but she isn’t planning on going SOooo, I have one ticket to the [...]

I guess I am going to have to get used to Carolina blue and angry looking rams since I will be starting as a full time graduate student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC in August! Today I let my very nice manager at my very nice paying job know [...]

I hope you will be singing Karaoke tonight (if you want to)!