Entries Posted in March, 2007
March 29th, 2007
Old vs. New
So Carrie and I are working on a new layout for the blog, and you’ll have to let us know what you think. 
The new layout is what you’re seeing right now, and the old layout is in the picture to the right. (You can click on it to make it bigger.)
Any thoughts welcomed and appreciated!
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March 28th, 2007
Patience is a virtue
I’m a patient person. Really I am. I am not checking my email every five minutes. I am not checking like a fanatic to see if I missed a call on my cell phone. I am not incessantly looking for my results to come back. I passed. I passed with flying colors. (Say it with me!) I passed. I passed. I passed… (If you close your eyes at night, you can probably hear me saying it over and over and over)
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March 28th, 2007
Working Wednesday #1
I’m taking an idea from my sister. She posts “Wordless Wednesdays” which is a picture that she really likes. So, I’m going to steal (ahem, borrow) that idea and do a “Working Wednesday” post every week. In this post, I will put up a job title that I’d like to have and a picture that I believe captures why I’d like to have that title. Here’s today:
Beach Tester: (My offical DREAM job)
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March 24th, 2007
Comps are done
Over the past three months, I’ve put in countless hours of studying. I studied with a study group in Boulder every Sunday. I used every spare minute I could find—on the train commuting; reading at night before bed, in the morning over breakfast, on my breaks at work; all day on every Tuesday; etc. All for one thing…comps. Comprehensive exams. The exam that determines my fate as a linguist. Passing means I get my degree…not passing means I don’t; I’ve spent two years studying; paid nearly forty thousand for advanced education. Yesterday was the day. I was all kinds of confident going in. Coming out, not so much. All the confidence was pretty drained by the vagueness of the questions. Now comes the waiting game. Waiting for the results. I thought that studying was hard. But the waiting game is harder. Ok, it’s a different kind of harder. But it’s not fun.
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March 19th, 2007
Carrie’s Virtual DNA
My sisters did this, and I copied them. Here’s mine
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March 14th, 2007
Textbooks revisited
Remember how I posted that I didn’t have to buy a single text book this semester? Well, that’s still true. But, a new book by one of my professors just came out. It’s called, Common Ground, Contested Territory: Examining the Roles of English Language Teachers in Troubled Times (Surviving Innovation, volume 2), by Mark Clarke. I’ve already read nearly all of it (we got advanced pdfs since we knew the author, and it was required reading for our class), and it’s fantastic! It’s great for all you teachers out there, especially language teachers. Here’s a link to where you can buy it. I’ll be buying one too, even though I already have most of it. I think this will be the first time that I’ve voluntarily bought a book (for school) that I didn’t have to. Ok, that’s not true. I buy all the “recommended” books. But, not anymore! Definitely check out the book. It’s fabulous! Anyway, here’s the link:
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March 7th, 2007
Why do good people move?
I know that it’s been coming for awhile now, but it’s always sad when the unfortunate event (no matter how expected) actually takes place. Our friends, who also happen to be our neighbors, are moving to Indiana. They’re part of the reason that we moved into the house we did. We liked them, and most of the other neighbors, but them most of all. I know that it will be easier for them, and that they’ll have family close by. But that doesn’t make it less sad. Ok, I’m just selfish. I know it. But let me mourn for a bit. When my brother moved in November, I tried to convince him and my sister in law to leave their kids. It didn’t work on them, and it probably won’t work on our friends either.
Good luck Sara and Ernie and Samuel. Indiana is so lucky!
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March 6th, 2007
Catering Choices
Thursday Jonathan is going with our friends Simone and John to a tasting event through Epicurean catering. He’ll have to post his thoughts on it and the food. I would go too, but I have to be in class. So, it’s just Jonathan this time. Stay tuned.
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- January 20, 2012 09:55 AM : Giveaway Friday: Impaling Instruments Necessitate Inhibitors (Cutting Boards)
- January 18, 2012 10:56 PM : Visiting IKEA for the first time - In Centennial, Colorado?
- January 15, 2012 09:54 PM : What Are SOPA/PIPA, and Why Should You Care?
- January 13, 2012 06:19 AM : Giveaway Friday: Carrie’s Curious Chai Can Cure
- January 08, 2012 12:11 PM : Funny Improv Video
- January 06, 2012 04:09 AM : Giveaway Friday: The Potter's Hands Picture Poster Is A Perfect Presentation of Pastoral Proclamations
- January 02, 2012 04:19 AM : It's 2012! See What We're Giving Away (For Free!)
- December 30, 2011 11:18 AM : Amazing Video: Native Northerners (Eskimos) Harvesting Mussels
- December 27, 2011 11:26 AM : Poem by Jonathan: Old Smokey
- December 23, 2011 12:18 PM : Getting To Decorate Sugar Cookies With My Cousins and Grandma
- December 21, 2011 10:09 AM : Funny Video! Silent Monks "Sing" The Hallelujah Chorus
- December 14, 2011 12:20 PM : Watching The Lunar Eclipse From Venango, Nebraska
- December 12, 2011 11:00 PM : We’re In The News!
- December 11, 2011 10:48 PM : Touch Screen Everything
- December 09, 2011 10:53 PM : Enjoying Colorado (in Photographs)
- December 07, 2011 10:56 PM : Returning To Snow (And Cold)
- December 05, 2011 07:35 AM : The World in Food
- December 03, 2011 01:34 PM : By The Numbers: How Much Does This Cost?
- November 27, 2011 11:03 PM : In America, Everything Is A Big Deal
- November 27, 2011 09:28 PM : A Farewell to Dustyn Kraft: Someone Who Made Me Laugh
- November 25, 2011 11:28 PM : GET OVER IT!
- November 23, 2011 11:36 PM : Recognizing So Many Complaints
- November 21, 2011 08:36 PM : 101 more places to see
- November 18, 2011 01:50 AM : Would You Give Up The Internet For 1 Million Dollars?
- November 12, 2011 11:46 AM : Internet On-Board Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur Of The Seas
- November 10, 2011 11:40 AM : In Pictures: 3 Americanisms that are now strange
- November 07, 2011 11:45 AM : A Cruise Vs. A Mortgage
- November 07, 2011 11:43 AM : 29 Places I’d Love To Go Back To
- November 01, 2011 11:38 AM : What I found most interesting about Mallorca
- October 30, 2011 11:37 AM : 3 Days in The German Section of Mallorca, Spain
- October 29, 2011 07:47 AM : City Style Apartments, Tallinn Estonia
