MoodyTunes

I thought about what to write for a year-end post and realized that the academic calendar puts me more in the mood for year-end musings in May, rather than December. When I tried to figure out which events in 2009 felt important I kept thinking of my road trip through Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and [...]

Warning: May contain adult situations, like barfing.
The facts, as I could deduce them on the morning of the incident:
Cat #1 was sleeping on the couch. Cat #2 was sleeping on a chair. Cat #3 was on the kitchen table, purring.
One of the cats in question, or all of the cats in question, had apparently puked [...]

I’ve been coming to terms with the fact that gray hairs are starting to appear on my head. I prefer to call them silver or white hairs, because gray sounds dreary, but no matter how you describe them they are unwanted reminders of my advanced age. Oh, the things I’ve seen in my 34 years! [...]

I finished my last paper of the semester last week and entered some sort of time warp. After four months of a hectic schedule, suddenly everything fell off my calendar and I immediately forgot what day it was. I woke up on Sunday thinking it was Tuesday, then I woke up this morning and thought [...]

The podcast victor, in the Great Road Trip Challenge of December: Car Talk.
The podcast loser: Hmmm…I won’t name it. Maybe me? I’m not sure.
I’m still finishing up my last paper of the semester so I will offer more extensive commentary in the future. I hope everyone’s Decembers are chugging along nicely. Once this paper [...]

I’m about to make another trip from Tennessee to South Carolina, and I’ve assigned myself a random project: I must listen to audio books along the way. Maybe not the whole way, but I want to make it through at least one recording of someone reading a story to me without tuning out after 4 [...]

It is time to pay tribute to my classroom. The fall semester is finished. By Monday I will have handed in grades and officially wrapped up my duties as a college instructor. I had a good bunch of students and enjoyed spending time with them each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday…since August! That’s crazy to think [...]

This is pretty random: Do quarters excite you? When I was a kid, a quarter was one of the single most amazing things in the world. It could: a) buy candy, b) pay for one round on a favorite arcade game, or c) be stacked with other quarters until an entire dollar, or multiple dollars, [...]