Bit of Ivory

You know, I really need to get back in the habit of blogging again. ‘Cause I’ve got time. I’m just so used to not having time, that I don’t. Hmph. I’ve had an interesting couple of weeks. Watched my brother graduate. Helped my uncle serve a supboena (and got paid for it! Hee!). Painted at […]

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*allows blog readers to get over the shock of Emily posting TWICE in the SAME DAY* Just got this e-mail: Dear Emily, Lumos Programming is pleased to inform you that programming space has become available for your presentation entitled, “The Sorting Hat, Ideology, and Free Will”. We estimate that we can provide approximately 25 minutes […]

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Yesterday was an almost perfect Easter Sunday. It was a bit windy, but I wore a mid-calf skirt and sandals, no jacket, and no nylons. The tulips and daffodils and hyacinths in our front yard looked lovely, and the newly-planted pansies had recovered nicely from the trauma of being planted. I taught about the Passover […]

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*feels guilty* Umm. Hi? I am alive, really. Just very, very busy. I’m gearing up my thesis big-time, and working on my semester paper for my romanticism class, and trying to decide if the Prozac is doing any good or not. And I’m waay into finding cute patterns for baby stuff to knit, because we […]

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So, let’s see. Anything fun and interesting going on in my life? I had a doctor’s appointment t’other day to determine if my lack-of-concentration thing is depression-related. I filled out one of those depression questionnaire thingies, and the doctor said I’m borderline, and there’s no real way to tell if I’m depressed or not except […]

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The wedding went well, but we’re all exhausted. I didn’t take any pictures with my digital camera this year, so you’ll have to wait for pictures until we get them back from the professional photographer. Next time I use stephanotis, though, I’m going to wait until the very. last. minute. until I put them in. […]

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A lot. And yet, not much. I’ve been going to school, working, and playing a bit. Listening to HBP as I commute. JKR is a genius, and so is Stephen Fry. My sister gets married a week from today :O, so there’s been a bit of wedding planning as well. I’m glad for the long […]

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The TA thing is going good. I gave a presentation in the class on Tuesday on the Gothic novel (they’re reading Frankenstein). Keats is up next, yay! I like Keats. We’re reading Byron in romantic lit. I’ve decided that I’m not particularly thrilled with Byron when he’s being sterotypically Byronic. I much prefer him in […]

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Well, it took pretty much all night, but Harry II is up and running. And he is screaming fast. Of course, he doesn’t have hardly anything installed at the moment, either– we’ve got Windows, of course, and Norton Anti-Virus (downloaded from BYU), and Firefox and Thunderbird, and Microsoft Office (I bought it today under protest, […]

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I was supposed to have a meeting today with my new boss and the guy who wrote the dissertation I’m working with, but– the boss forgot about it. So I drove all the way to Provo for next to nothing. I did get a couple of things done, though: I went to the library and […]

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