I’ve been quiet. I haven’t really had much to say, really. I put up my most recent entry two months ago and since then, I have survived another incredibly busy SXSW, started a temp proofreading/copyediting job, applied for jobs and fellowships, traveled to Boston for a conference, finished out the semester (probably my last at [...]
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Processing (Chocolate Cobbler in the Crock Pot)
Posted by boxingoctopus on May 15, 2012
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On failure
These were supposed to be black-bottom cupcakes, as seen here. I made them in anticipation of a girls’ night in I’m having here at my house tonight with some friends from school. Kind of a big difference, no? I think that the combination of using mascarpone instead of regular cream cheese and overfilling the muffin [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on June 18, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/on-failure/
Shameless self-promotion
While I continue to plot a post on our mega-strawberry-picking excursion, please allow me to take a moment to point you to a guest post I did at Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style. It’s a little sneak peek at Chapter 1 of my dissertation, and it involves my Internet bête noire, the Pioneer Woman.
Posted by boxingoctopus on May 10, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/shameless-self-promotion-2/
Is it just me?
Or are people really stupid? We had two showings (after more than a week of silence) of our house on Wednesday. We got some feedback from the second realtor: Her client likes the house a) but she is just in the beginning of her journey b) the house is in her price range but she [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on September 5, 2008
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/is-it-just-me/
Real estate blues
So, we put in an offer on a bigger house in our neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, after deciding over lunch on Saturday to take the plunge. We started scrambling to put our stuff in storage and suffice to say that this week has been very stressful and overwhelming while Matt scrambles at work, then comes [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on July 17, 2008
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/real-estate-blues/
$%!#$!#% Rodents!
I’m hoping a gardening expert can help me out here. I’ve got my first-ever garden thriving in my backyard — so far we’ve harvested 4 plump jalapenos that are destined to be salsa later today. I’ve got 8 heirloom tomato plants and 4 heirloom eggplants. Until this week, all of my plants were thriving. I [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on May 25, 2008
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/rodents/
Not much to say
I’m just here because I want to express my frustration that a 29-year-old graduate of my current university and one of this school’s most beloved quarterbacks, has just been hired on as some sort of offensive coordinator for the football team at a salary of $250K. Six figures for drawing Xes and Os on a [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on January 17, 2008
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/not-much-to-say/
Raw
So, yesterday sucked. It was totally exhausting. We left town around 7:45 and drove to Canyon Lake to drop Harry off with my dad and stepmom. Then we picked up Jeremy from the airport and then met with our lawyer. Lunch, and then headed to the mediation. Fortunately, we only had to be in the [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on January 12, 2008
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Friday Night Fights
On Friday afternoon, my brother and I (and our lawyer) are going to mediation on my mother’s estate. She died intestate in March 2004 and it has taken this long to settle affairs with our “stepdad.” Their house was in her name, which means that my brother and I are heirs to that asset. Three [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on January 9, 2008
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/friday-night-fights/
Got a hangnail? Blame the feminists.
Well, Virginia, I think I can safely say I’ve heard it all. Not only is feminism the cause of every bad thing in our society (decline of the American family, war, famine, pestilence, etc.), but now it’s responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals. The Neanderthal extinction some 30,000 years ago remains one of the [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 16, 2007
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/got-a-hangnail-blame-the-feminists/
