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Remember Me?

Posted by Administrator on 12 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

Still Getting There

Posted by Administrator on 12 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

We are slowly but surely getting things set up and in order here. We have been enjoying the lake, the pool, and the new TaeKwonDo school. All of these things, however, also seem to slow down the unpacking process. Plus, you know how it is once you get all the main things you need unpacked and it seems like such a chore to finish those few lingering boxes of things you barely use anyway? That’s where we are. The office is completely set up and decorated now, and I am pretty happy with how it all came together in a daring combination of colors. Everything else still needs a lot of work. I have ideas but am looking for some pretty specific items. Plus, I can’t bear to spend much more money this month…even with that handy stimulus check supposedly on the way. I still have a lot of stuff flying around in my head that had me out of sorts. I hope to get moved into my school office this week and am thinking maybe that getting back to work will occupy the voices in my head (really it is mostly my voice with a few others thrown in).

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We are home…it just doesn’t feel that way.

Posted by Administrator on 05 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

We are at our new house in our new town, and we finally got Internet access back today. Yippee for Facebook, online shopping, and blogging. I am having a really hard time with this move. I don’t remember having such a hard time with a move since I first left home after college. I am all a jumble of thoughts and emotions as I try to sit down and think about all I have done and look into the future. I am trying to come to terms with my new identity, regaining the parts of myself I love but let slide away in the past few years, and trying to see into the future. A lot of people I know struggle with this period in their lives. I am not sure why the year after completing the Ph.D. is so emotionally turbulent for so many people, but it is. If you know why and can help guide me through this struggle, I would appreciate any words of wisdom. Maybe our minds were so focused on a single goal that when we lift our heads up out of the sand and start to live a new life, we basically have to start over with a new vision of who we are. Maybe we have trouble fitting into our old lives and yet are not sure how to fit into our new personas either. At least that is how I can best describe my emotional turmoil at this very moment. I don’t have any answers, but I hope it all starts to settle in and become clear over the next few months.

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Moving Day

Posted by Administrator on 01 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

Tomorrow is moving day. As could be expected, the process of packing and purging has been unpleasant. And there is always the wrench thrown in at the last minute to keep things interesting. I guess my next post will be a few days away from our new zip code.

I never thought I would say that I would be sad to leave, but in the last couple of months I became part of a wonderful circle of friends that I am very sad to leave. Last night I got to go out on a date with two hot young men (friends of mine) and two of my girlfriends. We ate a little, drank a lot, and laughed a whole lot more. I had so much fun and am glad that will be my memory of leaving this town.

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Bling, Bling!

Posted by Administrator on 28 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

I am happy to report that I brought home the gold in both sparring and traditional forms in the ladies green belt category! How is that for some bling?

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State Tournament Day!

Posted by Administrator on 28 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

Today is the day we try to bring home the gold! My ankle is still bothering me a lot, and I am quite nervous. I am just hoping to bring home any medal at all.

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The Final Week

Posted by Administrator on 26 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

We have entered our final week in this town. Packing has become increasingly laborious. I am so over it. In fact, I have reached the point where I really would like to throw everything out rather than deal with packing it. When not packing we are getting ready for the TaeKwonDo state championships this weekend. I have been training hard, and I managed to take second place in the school’s sparring championship leading up to the tournament over the past 2.5 weeks. My ankle is a bit sore from the training, but I don’t really have the time to rest it since I should be packing. I started tearing up leaving class last night, and I told my friend that somebody better bring a large box of tissues for my final class on Monday night. Well, I need to get back to that packing now. Ugh.

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A Legally Blonde Moment

Posted by Administrator on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

I ran into one of my students yesterday while I was out getting my hair beautified. I couldn’t help but immediately giggle to myself after she walked away as I was reminded of that scene in Legally Blonde where Elle runs into her law professor in the salon. And the law professor says to Elle, “If your going to let one stupid pr*** ruin your life, your not the girl I thought you were.” Unfortunately, I had no such sage words of advice to offer.

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Bella: 1997-2008. She loved and lived her life.

Posted by Administrator on 21 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

The words that come to mind when I think of Bella are “one of a kind”. She was truly a unique creature whose quirky nature made her perfect in our family. I am not sure that my words can do her justice, but to meet her was to love her. She would wiggle her way into your heart and get you to pat her head or throw the tennis ball to her. I will miss the way her little tail nubbin wiggled when she was happy and excited. I will miss the bright intelligence in her eyes until her last breath. I will miss the way she would come up beside me at my desk and nudge her head under my elbow to pet her. I will miss waking to find her standing next to me in the morning. I will miss having her beside me while I work and tripping over her while walking through the house because she was a “velcro dog” in every sense of the word. I will miss how people were scared of her, but we knew how loving and gentle her spirit really was. The birds and squirrels in the yard will not know what to do in the quiet that starts their day now. She has been gone for over two weeks now. I still feel a big empty spot in my heart without Bella, and we are trying to learn to live our lives without her. I don’t want to dwell anymore on the pain right now, and I am trying to celebrate the years we had together. Bella was so little as a baby, but she grew to be one of the biggest female dobermans we have yet to see. She was even bigger than a lot of male dobermans.

Bella loved the outdoors. She loved swimming and running in the woods, sniffing around to make friends with the other animals (birds, squirrels, turtles, etc.), or just lying outside while we worked or played in the yard.

Bella spent the first few years of her life in Mississippi before moving to the Washington, DC suburbs. This meant she got to visit the White House and play in over 18 inches of snow. Bella’s favorite things to do were go to the dog park and go for walks at Great Falls. Bella enjoyed those experiences immensely before moving south again to Alabama.

Bella was truly a member of the family more than just a dog. Until she could no longer jump on the bed, Bella treated our bed like her own and expected to go tell the Easter Bunny and Santa what she wanted just like all the other kids.

Bella did not have an easy life. She broke her back as a puppy, which was not discovered until she went to the vet school at Mississippi State when she was around 2. The local vet noticed a mass that he thought might be cancer and referred her to the vet school. She had surgery to remove the mass, which turned out to be a piece of grass that they thought she could have breathed in and migrated out her lung. She bore the scar from that surgery on her side for the rest of her life, and in that recovery process also managed to bite a chunk out of her leg while trying to get as the bandaged wound. Later in DC she would end up tearing the ACL in both of her back knees, but the recommended surgery was not an option due to the exhaustive recovery process and the fact that I was on modified bedrest with Brooke at the time. She was tough and managed to get along well without the surgery until about the last year of her life. And last summer you may remember that Bella had surgery to remove a fatty deposit on her chest but then almost died in the recovery process because they could not get her to stop bleeding for over a week after the surgery. Still, she pulled through and thrived until really the last couple of months when her body just started to get tired. Bella had a lot of tough things happen to her physically in her life, but none of those things ever changed her spirit. She even took the addition of two babies into the family with grace and learned to accept and love those children as part of her pack. She would have given her life for any one of us and loved just calling herself a part of our family. The feeling has always been mutual.

It’s hard to say you can learn something from your dog, but I learned something about life from Bella. Even through all the hardships she faced, Bella loved life. She was passionate about the things she loved and was always in the moment. That dog would bark every time we left like we had never left before and then would be at the door to greet you when you returned with her tail wagging. She would run out the back door 100 times a day after a bird or squirrel like she believed today was the day she was going to catch it. She always had a smile for me. Bella probably got to see and do more in her life than some people can say they have done. She spent her days beside her family rather than alone in an empty house. Bella lived a wonderful life and inspires me to try to live more in the moment and enjoy the small but precious things that each day brings. I don’t know if I will ever be able to think about Bella without tears coming to my eyes and a lump coming to my throat. She was so very special and is so very missed. Bella, you will always be in our hearts and will always be loved. I hope you are having fun as you run and swim without pain in dog heaven, and I look forward to seeing you again when the time comes.

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Soon he could be calling China.

Posted by Administrator on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Random Noise

This morning I walked away from my desk to shower, and when I came back found that my phone was showing the contact information for one of my co-authors. I thought this was strange because I did not try to call him but had read an email he sent me earlier in the morning. This afternoon I get a call from him and find out that he received several mysterious phone calls from me this morning. Or more accurately, he received several mysterious calls this morning from Luke. Evidently as part of his raging terrible two disease he grabbed my phone and started pushing all kinds of buttons which allowed him to call my co-author multiple times. He doesn’t have children but is a friend and had a good sense of humor about the calls. I still apologized profusely and felt quite embarrassed. Note to self: always lock the keyboard. Always.

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A Capitalist Brew

A bold and hearty blend of reason and absurdity…and isn’t life just that?

Remember Me?

Still Getting There

We are home…it just doesn’t feel that way.

Moving Day

Bling, Bling!

State Tournament Day!

The Final Week

A Legally Blonde Moment

Bella: 1997-2008. She loved and lived her life.

Soon he could be calling China.

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