It’s Cinco de Mayo, but you wouldn’t know it around here. Our little slice of Texas doesn’t get as worked up about it as some of the other places around the state. And it’s raining pretty steadily outside. And I’m sitting in my office, where the chances of having a party were pretty slim to [...]
Earlier this week, we hauled The Girl up to campus so she could take part in a little experiment that the psychology department is running. Don’t worry, no mazes or shock treatments were involved – just monitoring of the blood flow in her wee little head.
While the girls were busy being sick last week, The Boy and I kept trying to lead fairly normal lives. Well, normal for us. I guess some might argue that we’re both a bit out there. Actually, I got to spend quite a bit of one-on-one time with him over the weekend, something that’s been [...]
Yesterday was a crazy weather day around here, or at least it was billed as one by everyone and anyone with a passing familiarity with meteorology. By the end of the day though, none of the doomsday predictions of gopher-sized hail or tornadoes had actually come to fruition (fortunately). Still, there was plenty of rain, [...]
I had originally planned to write about something else, but that will have to wait. I have been greatly inconvenienced and somewhat offended. Who has caused me this heinous inconvenience/offense, you ask? Sadly it’s an entity that I usually go out of my way to defend: the United States Postal Service.
Living in a college town, you get used to somethings that are out of the ordinary. It’s not like the circus is in town everyday or anything, but you get to see/do/put up with things that usually aren’t a consideration in medium-sized towns. For example, take my new arch-nemesis – the stupid Geico plane.
Today was far more productive than yesterday, but that’s not saying a whole lot. After yesterday, merely rolling out of bed and taking a shower seemed like a major achievement. My parents came into town today to help my brother stock his new apartment, so we made the trip to Sam’s and Target and bought [...]
There’s a lot of upside to living in a town with one of the nation’s largest universities. We can go to any number of cultural or sports events throughout the year, there’s ton of shopping and restaurants that don’t belong in a town our size and we’ve got 40,000 college students pumping sales tax revenue [...]
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