Monthly Archives: February 2007

80s feel

February 27, 2007 – 12:16 pm

Yes, life was simpler for me in the 80s and the music was fab-u-lous, so what could make a girl happier than the opening sequence to the Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore movie, Music and Lyrics. If you must know, Andy and I were on our way to the Tampa Theatre to see Peter O’Toole [...]

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when harry met daisy

February 26, 2007 – 1:12 pm

heehee Well as my last post suggested, I had both tickets and an “in” to the Harry Connick Jr show this past Saturday night. Frankly, I didn’t think this would impress many people as I’ve been to several of his Orpheus Mardi Gras balls and run into him at the Ritz Carlton French Quarter bar [...]

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hip hip harry

February 24, 2007 – 10:09 am

I didn’t win the dance contest at school last night, which is no biggie, but I did leave the event kind of down because not a lot of people were there. Even our leader N.C. was too tired from a full day at work to pump us up, and the people in charge with megaphones [...]

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10 more days

February 22, 2007 – 3:49 pm

til my exams begin and I have to say that I’m not nervous. Well maybe a little, but I mainly just want them over with!!! If I had taken them as I originally planned last semester, I think the stress would have gotten the best of me. Waiting til now was for the best. While [...]

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normal Tuesday everywhere else…

February 20, 2007 – 8:08 am
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Bacchus Sunday Blues

February 18, 2007 – 12:47 pm

Things I am doing today to pretend Mardi Gras festivities aren’t happening in NOLA right now: 1. writing this blog 2. not answering my phone when a NOLA area code calls 3. printing out my interactive interview project to edit/structure/and develop [password protected!] 4. working on my application for this Oxford summer programme 5. pulling [...]

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tornado's path

February 14, 2007 – 10:32 am

Aaron’s got an image of the path of the tornado up on his blog and you can see that it went just East of my parent’s house.

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quick update

February 13, 2007 – 1:49 pm

So far it looks like everyone I know is OK and I just talked to my friend Tom in Uptown who described the whole area as “whacked.” A friend of ours had a window break and the glass cut her face. While I know my parents aren’t even in NOLA, I do hope our house [...]

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tornado hits NOLA

February 13, 2007 – 1:15 pm

So far the news is that a tornado hit part of Greater New Orleans early this morning and when I spoke to my friend Greg, he had gone in to work but knew of power outages throughout the area. Thank goodness for my NOLA bloggers listserv because that’s how I also heard news. NOLA.com, god [...]

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tonight on PBS

February 12, 2007 – 1:22 pm

Watch the American Experience tonight. The documentary is entitled “What would America be like without New Orleans?” Here’s an article and here’s the official PBS link. I really like the Teacher’s Guide too and hope to use it the next time I ask my students to write a “place” essay. Now go set your DVR, [...]

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voluntarily tagged

February 6, 2007 – 11:08 pm

After reading Lisa’s post on “Five things you don’t know about me,” I decided to voluntarily tag myself. I’m not really one for tagging, but I’ve given myself Tuesday nights off from studying since I have such a long day at school. Here goes: 1. As recent as 2003, I almost won Miss Festival at [...]

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the new haircut

February 5, 2007 – 10:47 am

As promised, a photo of what is left of my hair. An extreme reminder of how much hair I used to have in 2003 is this pic from a Greek film parody:

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digital ethnography

February 5, 2007 – 10:33 am

Saw this on Jill’s blog…how I wish I were taking more anthropology courses! EDITED to include “A Lesson in Viral Video”

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fav superbowl commercial

February 5, 2007 – 10:20 am

I wasn’t all that in to the commercials this year, but I love Dave so here’s my choice:

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not much to report

February 3, 2007 – 10:10 pm

life here is the same… I’m less frustrated than last week and feeling less othered, which is always a bonus. I’ve got a project cooking in my head and it plans to spill out onto the page before Tuesday. Clancy’s post on “research ethics” may be of assistance. I’ve been working out like a demon, [...]

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wikipedia brown

February 1, 2007 – 10:01 pm

I loved him as a child, and he’s been given a 21-st century makeover here! I searched long and hard for Encyclopedia Brown cover art [the Apple Paperback versions] to include in this post, but couldn’t find any. All my childhood books were lost in Katrina, so if anyone sees copies of those in used [...]

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