Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Scheduled Haircut

›
I just thought I'd let you know, following our previous " conversation " about this (OK, It was a conversation between me and ...
1 comment:

"The City of Samba" -- An Amazing View of Carnaval by Jarbas Agnelli

›
I have already featured Jarbas Agnelli 's work on this blog (remember the song about birds on wires ? This is well worth checking out i...
1 comment:

The Grant-Writer Scientist's Wife

›
It's only my husband's 2nd year as in a tenure-track job and I'm already getting tired of all the grant writing. And this is bec...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

It's OBVIOUS that a roaring Samba wouldn't win!!!

›
I will say one thing about the Oscars... I thought it was ridiculous that only TWO songs were nominated for best songs -- the only "Bra...
1 comment:

Utterly Frustrated: I CANNOT watch the Oscars

›
I guess this is the first time in many years in which I won't get to watch the Oscars. And was almost positive that I'd watched it o...

A Week of Firsts, Part II (Stephen Sondheim!!!)

›
I discovered years and years ago... 23 years, to be more precise, that Stephen Sondheim was a brilliant musician* (I blogged about my favori...

A Week of Firsts, Part I

›
The first "first" is so prosaic I even considered not blogging it, but... since this is a "mommy" blog, I decided to go ...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Panic and Relief...

›
... Phew!!! I can cross a few more items of my To-Do List (I'm doing that right now, including the book reading ;) Today's ite...
Friday, February 24, 2012

On (Electronic) Feedback (or trying not to panic because I have 43 papers to grade)

›
Before I forget, I want to register here that I think that this post by Anastasia is excellent (and not really a ramble, BTW, because it...
1 comment:
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Reading 'till 2 am

›
I'm trying to make a dent in the backlog of blog posts I "need" to write to catch up (to the roster of scheduled posts that is...

Anxiously Waiting...

›
... for this month's credit card earned miles to post to my mileage account so I can schedule the boys' flights to Brazil. It'...

The Boy and the Blue Flowers: @ Longwood Gardens 2005 - 2010

›
2005: 9 months old 2006 - Almost 2 2008 - Almost 4 2010 - Almost 6! Closer: 2005 2008 Growing up: 2005 ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Too much talking, very little action

›
In the end, I wrote that I was going to edit past posts, and I never did it! I should have done it without a "warning" because whe...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Editing as I re-read old posts

›
I began systematically reading my archives last night, starting with May and then June 2008, and I realized that there are typos and errors ...
1 comment:
Thursday, February 16, 2012

23 lovely comments...

›
... that was what I got on the day I defended my dissertation:  April 16, 2008 . I was just browsing through the blog archives and I came ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

My Valentine's Day Gift (to myself!)

›
Last year I leisurely read my favorite Jane Austen novel  on Valentine's Day, but this year I took a different approach. I decided to go...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Would you do LASIK @ 40?

›
I actually wanted to title this post something like "Cranky Lilian is Back, with the eye & eyeglasses trouble," but it was too...
4 comments:
Friday, February 10, 2012

On Giving Up (Academic Publishing)

›
I gave up on academic publishing and, in a way, on being a "real" academic, many years ago... In fact, in digging through our de...

Tidbits of Acute Inarticulateness

›
I am just loving my "job" right now, but I can't really articulate my thoughts about it at the moment. Because it's compl...
1 comment:
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

"As Vitrines" - my favorite Chico Buarque song

›
Today Joy Mars commented on my post about the song "Beatriz ." While I wait for Joy to tell me which are her favorite Brazili...
1 comment: