Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Month: May 2010

  • A Tenous Memorial Day Connection

    I tell you, I have done nothing this weekend but study, and worry that I’m not studying. That’s how I’ve honored our late soldiers. But – three more chapters and I’m done learning, then I’ll have three solid weeks to memorize and run trial tests. Until then, I have to find my little nuggets of…

  • Return of the Big House Dream

    (If you don’t know, Gary has a recurring dream in which he lives in a big house. I keep track in the category “Life in the Big House.” Sometimes, they’re obvious, sometimes not. Last night’s was obvious.) Gary said when he woke up, “Oh, I had a Big House dream last night!” “Oh, good. It’s…

  • A Look Back at Stupid Things I Said This Month

    Or, for followers of The Daily Show, “Roll 220!” This may need to become a monthly feature. I just went back and checked a post from May 2, in which I schemed and planned, and was Lady Bountiful. ==================================Original Scheme:Plans for mid-May: Go to the BNL concert in Louisville. Stay in a hotel where the…

  • We’ll Always Have Paris. Maybe. No We Won’t. Or Maybe Not. (?)

    When Gary first mentioned Paris, I tempered my reaction. I was prepared for his mind to change. After I quizzed him a few times, he seemed stable, so I mentioned it to you all. Then, I brought home a French phrasebook to gauge his reaction. He responded favorably, in fact he suggested we speak nothing…

  • Deceitful Dots!

    I noticed a while ago I had picked up some International Dots. (Not to freak out any newcomers, but each of you shows up as a tiny dot in Google Analytics and (on a short-term basis) in the Ligit Visitors Map to the right. It allows me to think of you fondly, as in “Well,…

  • DoppleCosby

    About two and a half years ago I mentioned in this blog I had done something so stupid at work that I could not blog it. Now I have to blog it because it serves as preface to my most recent stupid work idiocy. One of my duties at work is to select photo images…

  • In Which We Return to the Days of Old

    You have Friends 2 and 4 to thank for alerting me that I had done something to Typepad that shunned them if they were too lazy to didn’t feel like entering an email address, hidden to the world though it was . Essentially, they didn’t want ME to have their email addresses. Eventually I found…

  • This Is My Rock and Roll Lifestyle

    First off, I woke up today at 10:00 in the morning. (I was planning to go to bed last night at 9, but then Gary cooed, “Tudors?” … so I got my laptop and we watched The Tudors, the only show we watch with a Wikipedia tab open. The first time we watched it the…

  • Sunday, Bullety Sunday

    So, I have had 6000 + more minutes of life in my life more than the people who watched Lost. Sadly, I’ve spent it studying for my exam, due at the end of June. A few weeks ago, we were talking about people working as models in their teens. Gary wrapped up the discussion, saying,…

  • Fellow Traveler

    Hoover identified five types of Communists. The card-carrying Communist The underground Communist The Communist sympathizer The fellow traveler, someone not a potential Communist but nevertheless who may hold views shared by Communists The dupes I have to say, were I a Communist, I would be a fellow traveler, because I like travel just that much.…