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DAY NINE: Spokane WA to Sammamish, WA OK, so it's not raining here at all but we thought it'd sound clever to give a nod towards our home region's stereotype for rain. In fact, it is quite lovely here in Sammamish, WA--after unloading the trailer, "M" came over to get "K" and we ended up going to Mexican in Redmond with my Dad and...I need time to decompress from such a long and fantabulous

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DAY EIGHT: Deer Lodge, Montana to Spokane, Washington; via Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.Ladies and Gentlemen: we are back in the Pacific Northwest. I repeat, we are back in the PacNW. Beyond cowboy country and into logging territory. Tall pines, high mountain passes and everything a bit rougher around the edges, woohoo!Greetings from Spokane, WA, where we are watching "Wizard of Oz" at the home of

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This is ranch country. Big Sky, baby!DAY SEVEN: Cody, WY to Deer Lodge, Montana (via Yellowstone National Park). Greetings from Scharf's Motor Inn, in beautiful downtown Deer Lodge, MT, Montana's 'second-oldest city'. So we're off I-90 now, between Butte and Missoula. Yes, we popped back up onto, gasp, an interstate for a bit. Driving in tonight to Deer Lodge was hillarious because "K" and I

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Near Fort Laramie, WYDAY SIX: Torrington, WY to Cody, Wyoming (50 miles east of Yellowstone NP). Well. We are back in the West. Cowboy country. The true frontier. Boots 'n sh*t kickin'. And it feels DAMN FINE! Plus, there is something very comforting about being back in a region where having Washington State plates is not exotic. See, from here on out, the Seattle area is not far off (

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Our antique stop near Athol, KS. What a character. As he pointed out, it's too bad that we're not going to be in town NEXT weekend to get down with the "2nd Annual Great US-36 Highway 'Treasure Hunt': 400 Miles Across Kansas; Find Yard Sales Galore From Border to Border" event...DAY FIVE: Fairbury, Nebraska to Torrington, Wyoming. Talk about tracing the paths of the pioneers. This is the

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Yay! Our little John Deere antenna ornament made it accross another state line!DAY FOUR: Burlington, Iowa to Fairbury, Nebraska. Greetings from the Capri Motel in Fairbury, NE, where we have no phone signal but the wireless signal is A-OK, darn tootin'! We left the western bank of the Mighty Mississipp' this morning and tootled through southern Iowa and northern Missouri today on sideroads

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DAY THREE: Defiance, Ohio to Burlington, Iowa: it's after midnight and we are now officially "West of the Mississippi" and needing to crash here at the Super 8 Motel...so we'll write more riveting stories from the road later. "K" did all the driving today and she really put on some serious miles and time. Especially considering that we gained an hour when we crossed from Eastern into Central

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This is the Ohio state flag. Which we've seen quite a bit of. DAY TWO: Cleveland, OH to Defiance, OH. Thank you to our think tank at HQ for guiding us to hotel-age in Cleveland!We are taking contest entries for guesses on what is going on in this scene. NOTE: no one has been arrested, we are all safe, and things will be OK...at least until the next 'thing'.RULE #8: Pay attention when those

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State College, PA to Cleveland, OHGreetings from Day One on the road. RULE #6: each morning, check the oil, tire pressure, AND coolant fluid levels. See Exhibit "C" below:This was our Most Interesting event today: the engine light went on, we made a game-time decision to keep driving to the next exit and then BOOM! Spray! All over the windshield. Pulled over, steaming. Overheated engine.

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Alas, the time has come when I must bid adieu to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to make way towards Washington State. Welcome to the Great Roadtrip Westward 2007. The U-Haul is loaded, the tire pressue has been checked, my travelling companion (code name "K") is here, we are well-fed and ready to get some sleep before heading off tomorrow at the crack of noon-ish. We have four, NO, FIVE road

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*OK, congratulations if you noticed. It's SO not even sockeye salmon. It's King/Copper River, which is waaaay better, and thanks to the laws of supply and demnand, waaay pricier. It's the little things...Oh my goodness, a blog update. Where is everyone? I think only Zimmerhouse updates regularly--check her out.Well, well, what's been happening? As if you've been dying to know. Summer is

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My Most Interesting news items are as follows: I have graduated with my second MA and am now, at least presumably, DONE with graduate studies for like, EVER, and I don't quite know what to do with myself (job search aside). Also, I was just in Saint Lucia for ten days. Saint Lucia--in the West Indies, between Martinique and St. Vincent, just a tick west of Barbados. You know the one.So I

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...as soon as I've pretty much finished ONE huge thing (insert thesis here), the next round of big things comes up?Oh yes, I forgot: such is life!On a spiritual note, I did feel a bit more 'He-is-risen-indeed!' this Easter, with my own personal resurection of things that are new to come. Like it's a new start. I had my little moment of holy feel-good-ed-ness, in my own way. Granted, at this

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Let it be known......that I successfully passed (and even enjoyed, gasp) my MA defense today and thereby officially declare myself, now with two Masters degrees in tow as:Over-educated and under-rich!Wheee, this is indeed a massive load off my shoulders. I don't even know how to react yet, what does it mean to be not overtaxed with writing and preparation adrenaline? And...scene!

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Below is my visual DNA, simul-inspired by Ginapalooza and W,F & D. I hope it was not left at any crime scene or will be used against me on a Maury Show paternity test episode. Oh, and I have my final draft of my thesis done. Bring on revisions, aww yeah. I never thought I'd do this. As in, I had moments where I was like "what would happen if I just...didn't turn anything in? Cause remind me

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I'm back from NYC, it's super warm today*, I'm exhausted from travelling and can't think straight to work on writing so won't right now, AND...I've been MEMED! NYC was wonderful, very busy, very productive for non grad school things, very nice to get a breather from The Thesis Which Shall Not Be Named. Oh, and I saw Glenn Close on W. 81st between Columbus and Amsterdam Ave. and Heather Matarazzo

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"Knishes, getchyer fresh hot knishes...! (Back in the day, Greenwich Village...)NEWS FLASH: there is now a Rita's frozen custard joint right here in State College, PA. Get your water ice ('wudder ice')! Get your gelati! Get your frozen custard! Speak in mysterious ice-cream-ish phrases that people on the West Coast will not understand! I LOVE this cultural discoveries about living in the

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A Top Ten List, inspired by Zimmerhouse! I'm procrastinating by doing this instead of reading this one article right now--I feel like I'm coming down with a cold, I haven't exercised all week, so my head is not clear. Maybe this purging of personal information will help. Mommymatic, Ginapalooza, The Wendy Lady, Waves, Frets 'n Discs, Red Red Rine, Girls Run Wild: YOU'VE BEEN TAGGED for your

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Alrighty. I am so worked up about...WORK-- that I must take a moment's pause to blog a quick tick. I have now seen all five of this year's Oscar nominations for best film. Drum roll please: here is my ranking in order of each film's wow-factor for me. They are all excellent in their own ways, but if the Academy needed my nod:1.The Babel2. The Queen3. The Departed4. The Letters from Iwo Jima5.

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"Hey, Lisaopolis, wait, yeah, you. Any word on when you're returning 'your' Hello Kitty guitar?"Congratulations to my girls The Dixie Chicks for your total Grammy sweep tonight. Yes, I actually watched the Grammy Awards this year, which I don't think I'd done since high school, back when I REALLY. was. into. who. was. winning. the. awards. I popped them on this year 'cause in my humble opinion

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Firstly, rest in peace, Anna Nicole Smith. Secondly: Hotsy-trotsy. A happenstance meeting of the blogger minds last night, featuring Malfeasance, Lisaopolis and Waves, Frets 'n Discs. Also starring chocolate chip cookies, milk, Tension Tamer tea, 100% beeswax candles made by nuns in Shelton, WA and of course, a teeeensy bit of gossip--I mean, catching up. If you know us, we probs trash talked

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Exhibit A:Yesterday was such a looong, largely frustrating Friday at work that it was a real relief to just. not. work. today. Yes, it's Saturday but in grad school the largely-flexible schedule means weekends are often work-laden. Even though I have tons to get done...but then again, who doesn't?. Today started with a bright 'n early sunny jaunt with Red Red Rine and her parents to throw

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OK, I've discovered another guilty pleasure: those Shower Soother* thingies, available at your drug store. Drop one tablet onto your shower floor, hit the water on to super hot, and watch the steam arise with menthol and eucalyptus and whatnot scents. For the record I did not select the 'vanilla mint' pack even though it was cheaper because I'm sorry, those two scents together makes as much

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OK. Maybe I'm too blase about the new US passport requirements since my internationally mysterious blue travel document has accompanied me on many a journey for ages. To be honest, I can't remember what it's like NOT to have a passport, or to not go through the expense of getting it renewed (yes this includes shopping around for who has the cheapest passport photos, because those are always so

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It's 3:52 AM and I am so totally still not back in East Coast synch. Which sucks, because it's total 'game on' tomorrow; starting the new semester should be real perky, being all sleep-depped and all. Suffice it to say that I did not rest at all on my red-eyes back from Seattle, and despite totally smooth connections and fact that I was seated in first class (how do I get myself into these

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Happy New Year one and all, I hope you had a nice holiday celebration. Sadly, these are the best photos evidencing my trundle up to Vancouver, BC for New Year's Eve. Which means that I was having too much fun trapsing about to worry about getting Really Good Shots. One of my favo(u)rite moments of the evening was hitting the bar at The Sutton Place hotel (erm, one of the fanciest addresses in

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Greetings from the Pacific Northwest, where I did indeed make it to Seattle after a LONG-a** day of airport waiting. Ugh. All I've done is eat (primarily Asian food and/or cookies and sweets and the like) and bip around and jingle-jangle. Heading up True North for New Years Eve. Debauchery reports to (perhaps) follow.Just checking in-what's new in blogger land, people?

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Greetings from the Las Vegas airport, where I wait, and wait...and wait looking at our plane to Seattle, alas a plane with no PILOT. Apparently, he/she is stuck in the fog in Phoenix, so I'm likely to end up leaving Sin City at the time I was suppOSED to arrive in Seattle. Ginapalooza is due in this evening too, also experiencing delays, and "A" is picking us up, so thankfully she's been

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Ah, another entry just For The Sake of It today. Getting ready to head to the PacNW on Saturday for three weeks of holidaying and lit. review and methods section writing, awwwwyeah! This week is finals week, and per every year, it's a different schedule than when classes are on, necessiating grading, submitting final grades, writing papers and/or thinking about writing future papers, giving

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OK, please send all good vibes to the PacNorthwest, the region of the USA that I just heard Katie Couric on the CBS News call "...the top upper left hand of the country". So wait, is that what they call it on standardized tests these days?Any PacNW Lisaopolis readers, if you could report in, that'd be swell!Meanwhile, it's warm and balmy here in PA. But noo, there's no global warming problems,

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I must say, I am superceding even my expetations of how HOT I can look.My Most Interesting question to you today is: what am I doing in this picture? Best and most creative responses will be regaled with Christmas cookies and/or Hanukkah prezzies. Shalom!

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Ah, you can take the girl out of the Pacific Rim but you can't take the Pacific Rim out of the girl. I'm home today with a sore throat, tiny snowflakes are flitting about outside, and all I want is a damn pho ('fuh' like 'the' or...'duh') place to get some sweet Vietnamese noodle comfort food. I am entirely homesick for the PacNW and am preparing to slowly start the move westward. Scary and

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Wednesday: partial food prep, visiting, cleaning, anticipating...Thursday: guests arrive from both coasts, coffee, light lunch, chopping, stirring, coffee, music, snacks, this 'n that, coffee, manhattans, BIG MEAL, pies, only the strong survive for more cocktails at bar in town, talking, listening, bed at 2:30...Friday: I'll pretend I don't need an Advil, lingering breakfast, massages, body

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...to the nice man at the North Atherton Weis supermarket yesterday who gave the cashier his in-store bonus points which, in turn, paid for my Thanksgiving turkey at the register I say: God bless your mother and father! I hope that even though you said you were old and single and wouldn't be needing a turkey that you have a wonderful Turkey Day nonetheless. Gestures like yours make the world

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This just in from Waves, Frets 'n Discs: this is my tarot card. What's yours?You are The HierophantDivine Wisdom. Manifestation. Explanation. Teaching. All things relating to education, patience, help from superiors.The Hierophant is often considered to be a Guardian Angel.The Hierophant's purpose is to bring the spiritual down to Earth. Where the High Priestess between her two pillars deals

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In response to Ginapalooza's early-morning 'Best Headline Encompassing K-Fed AND the President' Challenge, I offer this as my submission and reflections of my feelings: "HOUSE PARTY!!!!!!!"And read her blog today, it's particularly hillare.

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OK, who else misses the REAL "fun size" size from our childhood? What's with these tiny candy samples for Halloween? I guess it is better to give kids less candy, not more, but STILL. Crazy me, I remember actually getting lots of exercise as a pre-teen and not much sitting on my rear in front of the boob toob (I'm trying to make a connection between rear-sitting, smaller candy sizes, and many

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Today I stooped to a new low, but not after teaching my class the phrase "etwas Dummes" (something stupid), as in "I did etwas Dummes this morning" (free code-switching for our readership). The etwas Dummes was that I drove to town today because I would have to head out of town after teaching. The funny thing is, it was only AFTER I parked my car in the garage that I realized I'd left my damn

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Yes, I know, shocker, update, yeah, woo hoo, yadda yadda shakaboom. I've been going through some Major Changes (no, I am neither cooking nor eating for two...not THAT major) surrounding my career path and have not been inspired to update but I miss writing silly things to my blog, so I think I'm baaack. I'll start with welcoming Ginapalooza back from the Old Country and also say that this

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Hello! This is my Most Interesting Update! Just to say I updated before Malfeasance and many other fellow bloggers who are too busy to update. Or do we have nothing Most Interesting to say? Mwhahhaa! Your comments....?

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David Horsey: Seattle Post-IntelligencerIt just keeps getting better and better. Anyone else getting annoyed at so-transparent pre-election hooey?

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'nuff said:David Horsey: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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First day of school again and I'm BEAT. I think this puts me in like 92nd grade. I'm excited and exhausted all at once, which, in the end, is kind of a good feeling, no? A long work day. It even feels like fall. Boom. Summer. Over. I wore socks and long sleeves and a jacket for the first time in MONTHS. And it was kind of a wake up call to have 25 faces all starring at me in my first

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...gosh, just try being PLUTO.Denied. No longer a planet. By definition. Categorical dissing. By-the-by, does this hint that I can start to re-define what constitues a 'literature review'? Darn! I didn't think so. In a flash of sheer brilliance garnered whilst putting lunch in the oven a few minutes ago, I present to you, dear readers, my new, post-modern and/or retro-futuristic mneumonic

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Firstly, you really should scroll down to my past few posts because there are some really funny pics. OK, at least I think they are funny. And by this point, I should have piqued your insatiable curiosity, so go ahead! I'm not tracking your scrolling or mouse movements here (yet...aint it fun to read a researcher's blog? mwhahahha. We're so hypertextual). Secondly, for all those days you've

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Sunrise at Dewey Beach, Delaware, August 14, 2006...for best results: enlarge pic.I'm just too busy mentally to dedicate time to telling you how I spontaneously went 'camping' in Delaware after our cruise, and where I made profit on the one-cent slots in Atlantic City hitting the one-armed bandits with my grandma. God bless the New Jersey shore and Delaware beaches for their excellence. Cape

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Since we're on a ship and all and paying by the milisecond for this internet connection, today's quick Simul-Blog from Ginapalooza and Lisaopolis will serve to illustrate our stellar photography skillz. Ah, pretty babies! Greetings from Nova Scotia...just the Halifax, ma'am, just the Halifax. Halifaxually, it's a beautiful town there eh. "It's the truth, it's actual, everything is Halifaxual,

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AP PhotoIt's just so convenient when one of your favorite bands happens to be playing in a city you have to be in for other purposes. Remind me to post some time further details about the Dixie Chicks concert in DC on Friday night, complete with 'a few...' (Malfeasance, 2005) drinkies before the show at the "Drinx" bar in the arena: that's what the opening act guy gets for being boring. And

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Again, I'm in my apartment, sweating, getting grades together and thinking about how much not getting other things done is stressing me out. Also packing for a jauntles up to NYC then the Maritimes, more on that later. Meanwhile, join in the Wave of Longing for the PacNW homesickness, featuring sentiments by The Wendy Lady and Ginapalooza whose musings best surmise my thoughts.

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It's freaking hot here. And humid. I'm caught between hating the unnatural freeze of A/C and feeling like a useless farm dog flopping down in the heat. Only Pimms Cups (see exhibit A, above) seem to help, and who can blame me, Pimms Cups are decidely more-ish. Another way to beat the heat: If you are in central PA and can make your way to Tussey Mountain Outfitters in Bellefonte, by all

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David Horsey, The Seattle Times, Sunday, July 23, 2006If you do not agree with me, please leave detailed comments on why you don't think this is hillarious.And congratulations to Pennsylvania's own Mr. Landis from Lancaster County, winner of the 2006 Tour de France! Who woulda thunk it?

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For lack of more and just because and well, it's ready-made, I present to you, dear reader: another blog questionnaire. Tag, you're it! And Today's Music Rec is, in no particular order, the following Go-Go's songs, singled out for Kathy Valentine's frickin lickable bass lines: "Turn To You"; "Head Over Heels"; "Vacation"; "We Got The Beat"; "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "This Town". Thank you,

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You may have noticed that here at Lisaopolis I don't necessarily report in detail the regular comings and goings on of my life. I guess I'm too busy doing the comings and goings. That said, I admire those bloggers who update the world of readers via amazingly unique, creative and vivid detail insights into what is going on with them, and am afraid I'm just not that good at (wanting to do) the

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I can't decide what is worse: this (a) massive humidity and warm rain spells, or (b) air conditioning. You are outside, it's too stuffy. You go inside, and the arctic freeze chamber, er, air conditioning, that everyone has set to minus 87 below in these parts nearly give you a heart attack. The abrupt temp change is NOT natural, I don't care how much east coasters love A/C. No wonder people

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OK, I'm on a retro TV kick and YouTube dot com is simply smashing. I need something to get over France losing the damn World Cup final yesterday. To Italy? Prego. That sucked big-time. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled for Italians. But this year's Azzuri squad was just plain mean at times. At least Mauresmo finally got her Wimbledon win, so the French should be happy about that. Although in

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OK, between the very fun Canada Day shindig I attended on July 1 and the BBQ I'm going to tomorrow for the Fourth, and considering the massive humidity going on here, not to mention nailbiting World Cup matches practically daily at Pickle's Tap Room, it's been hard to get a lot done. But I'm slowly having a go at it.On a nutritional front, I'm happy to report I have not been regularly Nordic

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...OK, so we know cigarette smoking is unhealthy. I don't know any adult who smokes who DOESN'T know this. Like have you ever heard anyone really believe somehting like "What, sucking butt? It's not as bad as they say...all lies, I tell you! In fact, it's adding years to my life!". But people do it anyway, for whatever reasons and what have you. Therefore, it's a choice, no? An addictive

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Shock 'n awe, a new post. Back from an amazing two weeks in Slovakia and Austria; what a concept to get out of The Borough and not only talk about the vim 'n vigor of grad school. The trip started on a hectic note, including about an hour's worth of getting on I-70 the wrong freaking WAY to connect down to Dulles, gunninng through a toll without paying because the payment thingie wasn't

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If you enlarge the photo, you'll see that yes, it's true, I'm too pretty to do math, I have a new koa Kamaka ukulele, and I've been in Hawaii. Conferencing and a bit of down time afterwards on Kauai and I can only say that Hawaii is damn relaxing. I did not get sunburned, which is a plus for mid-30s skin care regimens. My jetlag has more or less dissipated, which is a good thing since I've

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No one updates his/her blog any more. What is up with that? And yes I mean you. And unless your name is Mommymatic, or NOSE, a.k.a. Supreme Providers of Exciting Regular Updates, I mean my other blog friends when I say 'you'. It can't be that we don't have TIME because NO one has any extra of that. (Time, schmime, I don't feel like I've had 'time' for anything since about 1998, and I'm

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...ok, and this will be an absolutely riveting entry, but I need some fluff to combat all the heavy intellectualizing going on elsehwere. It must be the sunshine, or that I finally went grocery shopping after ages of having no fresh food items in the pad. Actually, I think it's that I had SO much pizza yesterday and have eaten SO much cake lately and have moved SO little that I'm kinda feeling

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Due to E.O.M.T.F. (operationalized here as "Early Onset Mid-Thirtees Forgetfulness"), I am a bit delayed in posting a few birthday pics. Maybe it's just the realization that I could feasably be the mother of any freshman or sophomore on campus. Eww, sorry, I just creeped myself out. Actually, I do feel different, there is something about THIS age number. I like! If you'd like the full review

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OK, admitedly, I'm procrastinating, watching "Inside America's Military Academies" on "The Military Channel" because (a) I'm fascinated that I even get such a channel, as I am at trainees saying things like "...this is not like the video game!" and (b) it's Ginapalooza's new fantasy that I become a civilian hottie language instructor in Monterey at the D.L.I. and hook up with a Navy man looking

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Awww yeah I'm here to hitchya with another meme-athon, which is brightening up my day of being home at sick with no voice, no tastebuds and lots of headachey snot. I was in D.C. this weekend for a family event and haven't shaken The Crap That Has Been Going Around, so home I stay. This zap comes from Mommymatic, whose recent blog entry photos you really, really must check out because they are

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OK, so I'm watching my first-ever episode of Grey's Anatomy and so far so good, except that all the Seattle scenes, including but not limited to: the very PacNW motifs of coffee, Tlingit-inspired art on most of the hospital walls, and shots driving over Lake Washington, are making me very homesick and I can't TAKE IT!

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OK, so I could post that I'm pregnant and/or had sex 87 times yesterday, that I am done with Next Step of PhD Which Shall Remain Nameless, that I played a show this weekend at that one bar, or that I won ten bucks this time in the Penna lottery, and/or got an autographed advance copy of the new Dixie Chicks CD, but I'll spare you the paltry April Fools pittance. It's just been a weekend of

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Having today's Harper/Fox/Bush, Jr. conference on the Fox network be the ONLY thing you had to look at and (try not to) listen to while being stuck in a dentist chair getting your annual teeth cleaning: TORTURE!Sticking a spoon into a freshly-made espresso drink on the bar of your regular cafe, swirling things about, then placing the crema-covered spoon in your mouth, savoring the fine flavors-

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Today was a very full day of work and just a whole lot of other little things. So here are some snippets, for your end-of-March reading pleasure:my Academic Next Step Which Shall Not Be Named meetings will very likely okay will be pushed back, bliss! and props to a tad more breathing space to get things thought out. Take-home message: I always thought 'push back' meant what other people

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...in the form of facebook dot com and Google Scholar. Oh my, too much fun surfing away.And I think spring is here, slowly but surely. Add your riveting comments to this paltry and, gasp, boring, entry:

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Inspired by 'converzatione' last night and added here as the Most Interesting Survey Question du jour: Are adults who say "I'm bored..." actually just people who are boring (and/or looking for attention)?I'm not saying they ARE. I just want to know what you think. Discuss below, using discourse analytical underpinnings to support your claim/s where necessary.Happy Sunday!

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*SPOILER WARNING* if you are one of my thousands of readers following Showtime's "The L Word" and you have been living under a rock and/or don't have Showtime to know the latest on What Happens To Dana: stop reading now if you don't want to know. OK, welcome to today's Most Interesting nugget: TV character death. Now, I must say that I always found all the frenzy involving TV character death

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Gruess euch! Whilst all good Penn State students are off on spring break, I have been playing the Most Interesting games of "Catch Up Time", "Maybe I Can Finally Get Some Writing Done", "Where oh Where Has My Houseboy Gone", "Take the Car Out on The Freeway For Once" and "Get Enough Sleep", and "Day Trippin'". I have not, however, been playing "Eat Right, Stay Fit". This brief photo essay

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"Whether You Fall / Means Nothing At All / It's Whether You Get Up / It's Whether You Get Up..." (Tracy Bonham: "Whether You Fall" from CD "Blink the Brightest", 2005. A darn fine disc! )-----------------Doesn't this story about What They Now Say They Did Know Before The Big One Hit just make you want to toss your cookies, not in a remotely good way? I mean, disgraceful. And there's video to

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The pinkness has arrived. Good thing it was on a Saturday and not a week day where'd I have to drop everything to try it out. When I first plugged it in, I was horrified at how C.-rap it sounded. I thought that I'd lost all hope of getting a cheap guitar that DIDN'T sound totally cheap, but then my hopes were dashed. Alas, I fiddled around with a few things, and then deducted that it was a

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Another episode of Blog World Reality:Lisaopolis and Red, Red, Rine double check the French skating judge's tallied points. Or are they downloading objectionable material? Or are they designing a top-secret study? The world may never know! But whatever the case, it's Most Intersting that that water pitcher is in very sharp focus, no?

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PS: thanks for the guitar color suggestions, keep them coming. You really should make your day by seeing my fantasy product below. But this just in: Ice hockey, USA: Slovakia. Just started. I think it actually MAY be 'live' instead of part of the nightly NBC Olympic package program of stuff you can find online earlier anyway with no comercials. Wait, they just in fact did verify that the

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Writing and reading and figuring out what the "H" I'm working on despite some major loops thrown in the mix in the last few weeks has required me to retreat into the soothing, regular, consistent patterns of (a) playing guitar (b) nordic walking even thought it's freaking cold out and (c) cooking. So I should be a lean, hardbodied, healthy shredder of facemelting chords oh so very soon.

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Zhang & ZhangIt's official: I HEART the Chinese Olympic pairs skaters. All of 'em. No one overly impressive with delicate, sexy style a la Peltier & Sale, but nonetheless all heart, all around. Sniff! You've probably heard this story by now and I'm sure Bob Costas will share it as an Olympic Tale of Human Drama, but here's my version: OK, so cut to almost the end of the pairs skating

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Is it Most Interesting or Just Plain Nerdy that I feel like the roving Olympics reporter? Today whilst grading (yes, on a Saturday) at my current regular caff, I was chit-chatting over my papers and single shot and glass of water, finding myself saying things like "well, you know which country didn't send a team this year was MEXICO. Yeah there were apparently bodyguards planted among Team

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Sophia Loren leads Chilean writer Isabel Allende, American actress/activist Susan Sarandon, Nobel prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya, Cambodian human rights activist Somaly Mam and three Olympic gold medal winners -- Nawal El-Moutawakel of Morocco, Manuela Di Centa of Italy and Maria Mutola of Mozambique -- with the Olympic flag during the opening ceremony. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen) Woo hoo!

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OK, I received this on a tip-off from Mommymatic: here are your instructions, per her blog today:"Ok, now, the deal is this: The person who's been memed thinks of 3-5 movies that make them weep. Like really weep. Then that person goes to Google images and finds a pic from the movie that doesn't totally give it away, and paste the image into his/her blog. Then, the memed one highlights the pic

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Welcome to the Lisaopolis First Ever Blog Contest Question! Most creative answers will be rewarded with cash* prizes, blog props and enough yin and yang to last a lifetime. Step up and try your luck today! More contest questions pending popularity, aka YOUR responses. Today's question drawn at the suggestion of Our Sister Who Doesn't Have Her Own Damn Blog Yet, "Alpha":QUESTION: "What's

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For today's reading pleasure, hop on over to Red Red Rine feat. Token Seahawk Fan Lisaopolis for evidence of Steelers fans in their native environment. Let me wallow while you look at this pic: OK, here are more: Oh, but wait. Go on over to Ginapalooza to read about how one of her fellow "E" High School alums and younger brother of good and longtime fried of Our Sister Who Doesn't Have Her

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Down with the rain! More double tall decafs! No more drilling in Alaska! Oh yeah and go Seahawks!Live, from the Most Interesting roving sports desk in Central PA: Life is a-frenzy here with 'Stillers' fever! If I had a dollar for every Roethlisburger jersey and/or 'terrible towel' I saw on campus today, I'd be wicked wealthy. And another nugget from the trenches: I passed out a quiz to my

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...the First Annual Simul-Blog! Today's entry is a first time special feature live linkage with the fine folk at Mommymatic, in celebration of our recent Meeting of the Bloggers:Click over to her toute suite and visit her blog often, as it is one of the funniest, most heartfelt collection of insights into her and Daddymatic's life during the first year and beyond with D-MAN! And she posts

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On my way to campus today, I was snapped out of my "I'm really getting sick of grad school and many things that accompany it" funk-o-rama when, while waiting at a crossroads, I noted a very handsome man across the street carrying a small child, laughing and talking softly. Hellooooooo! HOT?Shhhya!I'm sorry, but a man with a child is just a beautiful sight to me*. Of course, just the man is

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...what would you write about? Help a sister out; I'm under a lot of stress and mental anguish for reasons which will remain mysterious and shady. Other than that, feeling healthy! Please comment below:-----today's entry courtesy of Audience Participation, Ltd.

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As a service to readers of Lisaopolis, this blog will now feature tidbits leading up to the frenzy that is Super Bowl XV a.k.a. "A Little Match Made in Heaven". I mean, it's almost as though both teams read my blog and know that nothing could be more fun for a WA lady in PA. Today, Seattle is apparently its schized-out self according to this article in the fresh edition of the Seattle

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Two things today. Firstly, hoo, things may get Most Interesting. Does the "W" have an ally Up North Yonder? This is my new Most Interesting Favorite Quote from Mr. Stephen Harper, Canadian PM-elect (Conservative Party), in response to candidates supposedly engaging in tactics aiming to sway voters away from opponents or something-er-other: "Canadians can disagree, but it takes a lot to get

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Woo hoo, Seahawks....ok and if for some reason the Panthers pull it off, I'll....blog about that later. But in the AFC: go Steelies!Photo from Seattle Times. Credit: Laura Stockler. "Twelfth Man" is the name given to Seahawks fans. I say these guys qualify...UPDATE: 22 January, 4th quarter... I am peeing my pants as you read this--the Steelies are in the Super Bowl and the Seahawks are on

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OK, work with me, here, inspiration has struck and I'm blogging it:Things I'd rather be doing than getting through this pile of reading: SIDENOTE: I actually did have an 'ah-hah!' moment this afternoon while reading, which makes me feel LESS dumb.... OK, so in no particular order and, well, you get the idea that I can't concentrate (I think the "I've been Schranke-ed!" excuse is wearing off,

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I give you Exhibit "A" [see photo above].I need to know what this thing is called in order to elaborate further on the story about how I got totally CLOCKED by one in the Frasier Street parking garage* yesterday as I was standing around looking for where the heck to pay for my damn parking. There was no car, no person, no movement, no sound, and both these thingies were in the upright position

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OK, this is so riveting that I just have to report it: I'm back on the digital basic. Video on Demand, now that's what I'm talkin' about! On a regular albeit modest (good one, huh?) grad school budget, I've needed to prioritize perks such as cable TV and movies and those kinds of monthly entertainment expenses. Zum Beispiel, I have had the cheapest possible cable TV package and then rent

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Go Seahawks! Go Steelers! Go my fantasy Super Bowl XL Matchup!...ok, must quit procrastinating, must quit procrastinating...

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Frau Hundlnator ferets out underpinnings of CHAOS, Harvard University, October, 2005Ah, the first day of the new semester is behind me and my desk at home is already a-clutter! In fact, I haven't even really unpacked from my trip to the PacNW yet. Tres unusual, as unpacking is usually one way to feel like I'm getting back into the swing of things. It's like laundry: a pain to do because of

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OK, I just heard that the new slasher thriller "Hostel" is supposed to take place in ......SLOVAKIA! Awwwwyeah! Shouts out to Slovensko, a place of much endearment pre mna (pour moi). Uh oh, I suppose now I have to bite the bullet and go see this movie that I'd otherwise not be remotely interested in. Apparently there's lots of chopping and gore and fingers and such. You gotta just love the

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So apparently it's January 2006! I didn't experience my usual (more or less) New Year's Eve turning-over-a-new-leaf-of-some-sorts feeling so I'm still not quite clear on the fact that 2005 is history. I do know, however, that that lovin' stressed grad school feeling is in full force even though I'm trying to hide it--and I can feel my nerves acting up already. And the new semester has not even

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Today's Most Interesting tid-bit is that I will be on Christmas and New Year's blogging hiatus unless the spirit moves me to find an internet connection and to blog. And so, I herewith decree: Merry Christmas to all, and if you are celebrating Hannukah, have a nice one of those too, with your friends and family and unhectic times. I'm currently in the in the Evergreen State, revelling in the

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...always holds a special place in my heart. For those who are not employed in the academic (or related) field, finals week is that special time of every semester that finds us at high stress levels from immediate due dates and deadlines and obligations and also, in the case of the fall semester, rushing to get all your junk together to Get Out Of Town for Christmas and other winter holidays.

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9th row, floor, dead center seats to Sugarland, Sara Evans and Brad Paisely (10 December 2005, State College, PA): one of the most fun shows I've been to in a while. Three hours of superior entertainment and escape from the stress that is grad school. Loved it! Besides finally getting to see Sugarland and Mr. Paisley's guitar pickin' LIVE and in person, one of my favorite parts of the night was

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