80s feel
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 [...]
when harry met daisy
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 [...]
hip hip harry
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 [...]
10 more days
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 [...]
normal Tuesday everywhere else…
Bacchus Sunday Blues
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 [...]
tornado's path
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.
quick update
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 [...]
tornado hits NOLA
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 [...]
tonight on PBS
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, [...]
voluntarily tagged
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 [...]
the new haircut
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:
digital ethnography
Saw this on Jill’s blog…how I wish I were taking more anthropology courses! EDITED to include “A Lesson in Viral Video”
fav superbowl commercial
I wasn’t all that in to the commercials this year, but I love Dave so here’s my choice:
not much to report
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, [...]
wikipedia brown
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 [...]