bshirley If there’s such thing as heavy clerical work, that’s what I did today. Worked at my Aunt/Cousin-once-removed Nelwyn’s office. Moved 7 years of files from boxes into cabinets, and better boxes. A few bruises and fingernail slashes. Shredded some DNU’s (Do Not Use) files. She runs an employment agency, and there is an amazing number … Read more
Saturday Evening, I was sitting in the skyview bar of the new Hilton Hotel in downtown Houston (24th floor) with Allen Hill. Just musing on the fact that My Sister and nieces were at the Nutcracker ballet earlier in the day. My mom was at a show at the Verison Theater, and I was attending … Read more
I took my final in Secondary Methods (methods in which you can/should teach children in Secondary School (middle and high school). I thought it was super easy. I studied very little – likely made a 80-90. I also decided to look for non-teaching pay-the-bills work. So, that’s starting monday. The bar’s weeks from opening – … Read more
I’ll leave the World AIDS Day comments to the Chron (whom I agree with emphatically):
Nov. 29, 2003, 5:15PM
AIDS REALITY
From city streets to globe’s corners, a true pandemic
Today is World AIDS Day, a designation to which too many people will say, “So what?” — if they have any response at all.
Perhaps buoyed by the progress made in the treatment of the HIV virus or the misimpression that the disease has no effect on them, many people have turned a blind eye.
That’s exactly the wrong response.
“I got drunk,… as a skunk… because it rhymed.” – Drunkard’s Lullaby, The Minus Five
Studing the lingo that is Texas English, aka TXE. I thought it interesting that newcomers were particularly quick in picking it up.
The by-line is dated coincident with the start of the major ass whoopin’ that was put upon the Aggies this year. If it wasn’t for two Texas fumbles, it would have been 46-3. “Poooor Aggies”.
Scholars of Twang Track All the ‘Y’Alls’ in Texas
Fri Nov 28, 2:34 PM ET
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL The New York TimesCOLLEGE STATION, Tex. “Are yew jus’ tryin’ to git me to talk, is that the ah-deah?”
That was the idea. John O. Greer, an architecture teacher at Texas A&M University, sat at his dining table between two interrogators and their tape recorder. They had precisely 258 questions for him. But it waddn what he said that interested them most. It was how he said it.
My family doesn’t have an ingrained Thangsgiving routine, and I like it that way. Every year I spend it with a different family. Often very extended, only knowing one or two people in the family before being there. I really enjoy getting a one day expedition into an extended family chemistry – and there have … Read more