The Good Shoes Diaries has been closed, due primarily to my lack of patience with the site's low speed. My day-to-day journal has been opened at Gumbifications. You can still find occasional political commentary at Historicus's Commonplaces.
You Are Likely a First Born
At your darkest moments, you feel guilty.
At work and school, you do best when you're researching.
When you love someone, you tend to agree with...
Your Birthdate: August 29 Your birthday on the 29th adds a tone of idealism to your nature. You are imaginative and creative, but rather uncomfortable in the business...
I'm heartbroken by the news, hassled by my work, worried about my kid, and stalled out on my dissertation. Also, I don't mean to be a hypochondriac, and I don't mean...
I realize it's almost Thursday now, but it has been incredibly busy with all the online tutoring. But anyway, we had a great Labor Day weekend. Greg came up and we had fun...
I've been up late blogging again. This time I'm shooting off my mouth about John Tierney's glib and unsolicited advice to the city of New Orleans. This from a New Yorker. I...
It's frustrating not to be able to help when disasters like Hurricane Katrina occur. Usually they don't want people to send clothes and food, and they certainly don't want us...
Ok, I've been goofing around for about two hours, even though I have much work to do both in my house and on my dissertation. Mom and Dad got back to Lafayette to find it...
Dean stayed home from work with some kind of stomach bug today, and he didn't like it when I was singing "Starfish and Coffee," "Alphabet Street," and "Raspberry...
Hurricane Katrina tricked all of us. She was only a category 1 storm when she blew across southern Florida. Now she's got winds up to 175 mph and New Orleans in her...
Haven't seen a post from me lately? It's because my hard drive failed yesterday. Yes, it's very sad. Especially since my livelihood depends upon computer and internet access....
This morning went pretty well. I got up with the first alarm, and thank goodness, Dean has finally changed the radio station on his clock radio, so that it wasn't some obnoxious...
It was just all wrong all day. I didn't get enough sleep last night, and I wasted too much time playing a silly computer game this morning because my head was too foggy to...
I've been in the eighteenth century for three days and now I talk funny. I'd especially like to bring back the archaic expression, to be "froward." I think froward is an...
I've been consulting A Lasting Relationship, a collection of excerpts from diaries and letters from the seventeenth through the eighteenth centuries that Linda Pollock put...
Major crisis. The air conditioning is broken. And it's August, in case anyone hasn't noticed. So, at the present moment, I'm sitting in the living room with the fan blowing...
Robyn and I just got back from the annual picnic that the student council holds every year for the upcoming sixth graders. Dean didn't come with, which at first made me , but...
Yes, it's true. I've been driving again. But it wasn't such a long drive, and Dean helped. Still, I'm wired and have roadhead and ringing ears, and am therefore up much later...
We just got here to Athens, got Robyn's daddy to change the oil in the car, and now we're going out to the outpost in Oglethorpe County to play some D&D with Robyn as...
Dean and Robyn and I went to the middle school today to get a tour of the place. It's across the street from the house I grew up in. It's going to be so strange going past my...
I just got an e-mail from Dean at work. He said he'd got move these refrigerators; he'd got to move these color TVs. I said he shoulda learned to play...
Sorry, folks. If you want to read my thoughts worth thinking for today, you're going to have to go to my other blog, Historicus's Commonplaces. Don't worry, you can get there...
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