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Bryan’s paper deadline is today, and I’m excited to see more (well, any) of him again. He’d been rolling in from the office between midnight and 3am for the last week, but he ended the run with a 32-hour all night marathon. Last night I woke up at three (no Bryan) and at seven (no [...]

Where have I been, you ask? Well I’ll tell you. I’ve been here:

(That’s all my APA research sorted into an outline structure; I’m calling it Draft One.)
And Bryan’s been here (when not at the office):

(Don’t ask me what that is. Something about meshes and cavities and angles.)
It’s the story of April. And part of May. [...]

I just got back from a long weekend in Dallas. In addition to bonding with the immediate family (and meeting the 8 new bovine members), we checked all sorts of things off the wedding TO DO list. It was very refreshing to completely ignore my APA and job search for four days. I had the [...]

I just sucked it up and deleted some old, dear, and long-dead blogs from my bookmarks. Mostly so I stop clicking on them weekly in the vain hope that their authors have started to write again. My “friends” blogroll is getting shorter while the “strangers” list keeps growing. My bookmarks folder is witnessing the evolution [...]

We bought our tickets to Berlin this morning, suspecting we were about to enter the zone where prices only increase. June 10 – August 19. Stop by if you’re in the neighborhood. Of Germany.

I’ve been collecting poems and literature excerpts to work into our wedding in place of, you know, Bible verses. (Suggestions welcome.) I thought I’d toss a random one up here.
I Remember
Anne Sexton
By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color—no more than
the sand was a [...]

It’s April, that frantic month where the pace of my APA (thesis), wedding plans, and arrangements for the future (Germany, my job, a possible move) accelerates toward the deadlines. Everything’s just gotten a touch more desperate. In a wedding-planning calendar my mother and I put together in August, there are no big items this month—though [...]

Warning: When setting brandy on fire in a pot on the stove, don’t stick your whole arm in the pot before you light the match.
Otherwise, a totally worthwhile recipe. We made it on the fly one evening several weeks ago and lacked bacon, which probably would have made it even better. Because bacon makes [...]

should be my alias. I apparently get so excited when it comes time to sign my name to an email that at least 3 times in 10 I’ll misspell it. Most often as “Lesile,” sometimes in more interesting ways. Lselie. Lseile. Liesle! That’ll be my German name.