Monthly Archives: September 2007

I caught just a few minutes of a PBS show tonight after I came home from Ann Arbor, so I went to the web to see the web version of the same piece.  It’s a fourteen month investigation of the … Continue reading →

I went to bookclub last night after class.  It was interesting to sit with 5 other women, most still employed in the banking field, still stressed by what they do for a living.  Though I think they like what they … Continue reading →

I’m sitting in the “DIAD” which is a computer lab reserved just for students from my school.  I’m waiting my turn to run a DIALOG session, an expensive, subscription search engine.  I’m in a class to learn this dialog language … Continue reading →

Here I am, Monday morning, at UM.  I don’t have classes here nor do I work in Ann Arbor on Mondays this semester, but here I am anyway.  I wanted to attend an extra lab session for my online search … Continue reading →

Today we took husband’s Aunt out to eat.  It’s her 92 birthday!  She looks amazing for 92, and acts much younger.  She says she feels like she’s still in her 60′s, and it’s just her body that is slowing her … Continue reading →

Today I planned on getting two of my four homework assignments done.  I have several large projects looming, and need to get a jump on them.  I had a huge long list of things I just “HAD” to finish today.  … Continue reading →

This morning I wrote the first draft of a fundraising letter for Truck Safety.  It will be going out to Dad’s friends and family, and our friends as well.  It’s a difficult thing to do, to fundraise, even when you … Continue reading →

I was fooling around with “right sizing” pictures and accidently did that to this picture of Dad.  So I thought I’d throw it up on the blog just to see how that works. This is Dad in China standing on … Continue reading →

This week during a shift at the library reference desk I was asked about the following: Information about bipolar desease because a friend of the patron had just been diagnosed with it. What the meaning of “exousia” was. Whether or … Continue reading →

President Bush is threatening to veto the entire DOT appropriations bill (onto which the amendment disallowing the Mexican truck pilot is attached) unless he gets his way and the pilot is allowed to go on.  This is a pilot with … Continue reading →