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…I’d had my camera phone with me when I was in the gas station that had “Lady Bubba” walking sticks for sale. You can build one yourself online, but you should definitely try one out in the aisles of a mini-mart first.
I’ll be rambling around a bit for spring break week so such musings might [...]

I’ve been hyper-aware of how fast time is moving ever since I got to Nashville. Every day I think, I’m in a two-year program…that’s gonna go fast! And I might be wrong about a lot of things in this great wide world, but I nailed that one. Everything has been a blur. I feel like [...]

It’s funny — I’ve lived in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee over the past nine years, but I don’t think much about living in the South. I’ve never been regionally minded because I grew up all over the place. If I identify with any particular region, it’s the region between my ears. The State of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just wanted to point out a fascinating article by Joel Achenbach at The Washington Post: The Wow Factor. (Apologies if you have to register, but it’s free and quick.)
The article is basically a layperson’s guide to interpreting recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope, which received repairs, updates, and new equipment last May. The last [...]

There’s been a lot of swine flu talk in the news lately — Five Confirmed Cases on Campus! Half the Nation Could Get Swine Flu! — so in honor of the End Times being upon us, I thought I’d post a brief series of photos from my wanderings around Nashville. I should point out that [...]

I’m close to being settled in Nashville. Same apartment as last year (I sublet it for the summer), so a much easier transition this time around. The drive from South Carolina was uneventful until the very last mile — there was a Tennessee Titans preseason game starting when I got into town and the ensuing [...]