Monthly Archives: November 2008

Karaoke

11/30/2008 – 5:32 pm

Last night Kelly, Lucia, and I went karaokeing. It is only the 2nd time that I have been, so I was very nervous because I don’t like being up in front of people and I really can’t sing. Despite this, I put on a determined face, got up, and sang 3 songs. Yes, THREE whole [...]

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Trip Report

11/24/2008 – 11:38 am

I know that I’ve been back for a week, but I’m finally going to get around to some highlights of the trip. -The weather was amazing. I think that it was 75 and sunny every day that I was there. I can imagine how it might get old to have weather like that every day, [...]

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Slightly Nervous

11/18/2008 – 11:38 am

As many, or most of you know, I work at a public University. So at some level my salary is paid for my taxes. Now some of it is paid for by tuition, so I’m not entirely on the hook to you who pay Missouri taxes. But because of this situation, I’ve been slightly nervous [...]

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Out of Town

11/13/2008 – 2:22 pm

I’m leaving tonight, actually in a couple of hours, to go see Phil and Helen. I think that I’m the first in the family to do this, so it is a pretty big deal, and I’m really excited. It has been almost 3 months since they went away, but it just seems like 2 days. [...]

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I Hate To Say “I Told You So”

11/9/2008 – 5:49 pm

This morning, while I was getting dressed, I was watching Barack’s keynote speech from 4 years ago. And I remembered that at the time I thought it was a really impressive, amazing speech. And I also clearly remember telling people that if Kerry lost, I’d like to see Obama run for President in 4 years. [...]

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This Speaks To Me

11/4/2008 – 11:36 am

I just read this online. It captures my thoughts so perfectly. The excerpt is from a piece about the VP debate (I know, I’m so behind), but I think that it is valid now more than ever. It says that we haven’t learned our lesson after choosing an intellectually inferior president for the last eight [...]

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2.5 Hours

11/4/2008 – 10:58 am

That is how long that I was in line to vote this morning. I’ve never waited more than about 10 minutes. It was insane. I guess that was a good thing. But I’m really worried that if this is happening all over, people are going to get frustrated. Hopefully not, though. So if you haven’t [...]

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