holiday slump
Having resigned from the job [and just in time--I found out they laid off 4 editors last week], I spent the past few weeks trying to finish up the semester successfully. Wrote another paper, gave a presentation, graded my online students. Then the real fun began: a 5 day trip to Minnesota! I have to [...]
jambalaya and pimm's cup
Yummy NOLA food from Napoleon House!
Andy & Daisy in NOLA
Took too much time to upload pics from my day in NOLA. This is one of my favorites. A couple more to follow.
light at the end of the tunnel
Met with the acting Graduate Director last week and finally see myself finishing this PhD program in 2007! Woohoo! One more semester of coursework and an easy squeezy language requirement, and I enter comps and dissertation territory…FINALLY! Now that I don’t have the full-time job anymore, I’ve been spending my mornings and afternoons cleaning, writing, [...]
New Orleans, we have a disconnect
After writing a paper on the rhetoric of truth in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, in which I compared the responses/emails of FEMA’s former director, Michael Brown, to the blog posts written by New Orleanians over at Metroblogging, the sources keep a’coming. Here is an article detailing the reaction to Rush Limbaugh’s first broadcast back [...]
Mignon Faget
Wondered if the good ol’ MF stores were up and running, and should have known their Fleur de lis collection was hitting the big time again… While I already have a ring, this one is making me drool!
Make levees, not war!
tee OK I guess everyone knew about this already. And here I thought it was a clever t-shirt slogan I saw while in NOLA… Anyway, go here for one that gives its proceeds to displaced artists and musicians of New Orleans.
save nola
Some of the many new logos stating their desire to rebuild the city and slap away those folks who say we shouldn’t!
back home in Picayune???
There is a lot to update everyone on but the most significant is that I no longer have a full-time job! My last day was Friday and it’s already been such a relief to have the free time today during the day to clean, organize “last week of the semester” papers and catch up on [...]