So my friend, Dr. Ruth, is flying in from the UK tomorrow. Can I just tell you how excited I am? So. Excited. Here’s the two of us in London. We’ve got very colorful coats: I’m picking her up in…
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Existential crisis? Or just lazy?
So I’m DONE GRADING. Thank you. Thank you. I’ve even, with the help of Mary Lois, put my grades into Moodle. The grade grubbing shall commence very soon. In the meantime, I am having an existential crisis. It is 2:41,…
And the summer starts . . . soon!
So I’m nearly done with finals, and I am totally on top of my grading. Which surprises even me. I’m so on top of my grading that I feel smug. I look smug. I radiate smug. I enter my grades…
Odds and Ends . . .
First of all, I’d like to say congratulations to Wolfgang Hinck, who won the whole shebang in the Prof. of the Year. Â I’m really chuffed for him and jealous of his heavy, heavy award. Â It was, quite honestly, the heaviest…
Thanks, LSUSers!
So, I just found out last night that I’m a finalist for LSUS’s 2009 Professor of the Year award.  It’s an incredible honor, and I am very humbled. Basically, students had to go out of their way to vote for…
Smolder: Live at the Radisson
Smolder, live at the Radisson Lead Guitarist: Dakota Cassidy Bass: Mary Lois White Drums: Jaye Wells: Vocal stylings: Nicole Peeler This is what we get up to when we’re unsupervised.
Oh, the fun!
So I went to Dreamin’ in Dallas, hosted by DARA, to be Jaye Wells’ and Mark Henry’s lackey over the weekend. Â I also hung out with Dakota Cassidy and Michelle Bardsley, both of whom rocked my casbah. Â Seriously. Â I would…
I have an author photo and it is number two!: Here’s all the information for my wonderful photographer, Robert Trudeau, and his wife, Talbot. Â They’re both artists and they both have their fingers shackled firmly to the pulse of Shreveport.…
Ode to Anxiety (or, Sing, Muse, of how you totally don't prepare your victims for reality)
I never thought I’d be a writer. Â At least not of mass-market stuff. Â I thought I might write a book, eventually, about Philip Roth or Martin Amis and 27 people would read it. Â That said, 27 was an optimistic estimate.…
Author Photos Round Two
So I’m a dink and didn’t remember that with the wonder of iPhoto, I, lil ole Nicole Peeler, can make my own  photos black and white.  Until, sometime last night, when the whisky reminded me.  I just put them in…