You know how it goes… you’re bored. There’s nothing on TV. The husband’s out for the evening. You’re looking through the files of photos on your computer and you come across one from maybe a few months, or a year ago and it makes you smile. Or it makes you laugh out loud. This is [...]

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Yikes. Where does the week go? I finished teaching on the 17th of July, then graded for a couple of days. Last week, however, I pretty much just chilled. Saw movies: Sex and the City –was ok, fun. I never really watched the show but Ted did. It seemed a tad too long but it [...]

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ok, i’m borrowing a page from superstar Felicia‘s blog and featuring something to covet: This Etsy seller– Mimidoodles– but especially this totally wonderful work of art from her store: Isn’t it the bomb? (am I too old to be using that word?). I find it mesmerizing. I can’t quite put my finger on why– maybe [...]

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Yesterday we celebrated my sister Andrea’s 40th birthday (and also the finalization of the adoption of her baby, Olivia Claire). Ted and I were in charge of decorations (naturally) and so we made it a sort of luau theme. I can’t believe my sister is 40– which means i’m next– (my sister and I are [...]

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Things are finally getting back to normal. I feel better after a nasty cold/sore throat/lost voice a couple of weeks ago. There’s only two more weeks of summer school teaching left! I finished writing a grant that I had been working on for a few weeks. I’m trying to find ways to write (nearly) full [...]

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I just realized I haven’t posted about Tshirts in a long time. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love crazy T-shirts. Occasionally i’ll wear a T-shirt to teach in, but sometimes I worry that that i’m dressing too casual for teaching (though i’ve seen other teachers in shorts and flip-flops). When I wear [...]

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No, not June Allyson (seen here with dreamy Peter Lawford in “Good News”). My Garden. I’m finally getting my garden to grow. It’s actually just out on our front patio, but after about 3 months i’m finally seeing results! Yay! The first time i’ve ever grown vegetables (and fruits). Last week Ted and I ate [...]

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Here is a picture of me from Christmas 1974. My sister, Andrea, gave it to me last week. We’re planning her 40th birthday and Ted and I are in charge of the invitations. She wanted us to put a picture of her –from when she was a cute, button-nosed little kid–on the invite. But I [...]

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Another star from the Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical has left us. Cyd Charisse died today in Los Angeles at age 86. Read her obit here in the New York Times. And see her paired marvelously with Fred Astaire in The Bandwagon.

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I promise more blog posts this weekend. Just trying to dig my way out of a pit of papers and other work. In the meantime, isn’t this awesome? I don’t know how I found it; I was surfing the net, reading travel blogs (obviously not doing the work I was supposed to be doing) and [...]

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