Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Please forgive me. I’m going to whine a bit… I work ALL THE TIME! Feels like it, anyway. I work 3 days in the schools. I’m supposed to be in 3 schools, and I’m getting there, but I still have holdover from one school I won’t be in anymore, so right now, it’s still 4. And I’m doing a minor for one day a week somewhere else all together. And I’m doing a meeting once a week about the business of Psychology. And I’ve done training in Crisis intervention and ride-along with a cop for a night. And I worked a crisis in a high school week before last. And I’m job hunting in in a city I don’t live in. And I’m trying to learn about how I get my bad self licensed. And I’m still writing my dissertation. And I’m learning some new learning theory I didn’t really learn about in grad school. And, And, And. It’s a lot. I know I can do it, but a lot of other stuff has fallen by the wayside. I’m actually doing ZERO singing right now, and I rarely get exercise (just the occasional yoga class), and I’m not cooking as I usually do, and those dishes… Don’t even get me started on those! Learning to write good cover letter is hard. I got a book today that I think might help.

I’m really looking forward to the big Thanksgiving planned for this week. My parents, my boy, and loads of relatives and relative-type people are descending on Memphis, and we’re going to play tourist. I like Memphis best that way.

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As a scholar who is suddenly outside of a scholarly environment, I’m totally grooving on Google Scholar! It’s excellent. It’s like regular Google, but it links you to scholarly journal articles on the topic of your choosing rather than to the entire web. I’m so glad they’ve created this. I’ll be using it often in my career. I tend to go online often to research the issues my current clients, and I was wondering how I’d do that as effectively once my IU perks waned. Now I know! Thanks, Google!

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I found a link to this gem on a foodie blog. It isn’t right, but it made me giggle:

Freemans tuesday night the 16th of nov. the bush twins along with 2 massive secret service men tried to have dinner they were told by the maitre ‘d that they were full and would be for the next 4 years upon hearing the entire restaurant cheered and did a round of shots it was amazing!!!

If you check out that foodie blog, I also recommend that you read this. It’s eloquent.

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The nature of the Internet demands that sometimes, I share ridiculous links with you. I try to resist, but the force is too strong!

No, I didn’t make this up:

Hooters of America and a rival restaurant chain began arguing in federal court over who has rights to the concept of using scantily clad women to sell food and beer.

And here’s a very silly series of pictures of a rescue mission that ended up being more than anyone bargained for.

OK, back to bed. I’m gonna kill that kitty cat next time she wakes me up this early on a Saturday!

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Today I disconnected my land line and my BellSouth DSL Lite and turned on a Time-Warner cable modem. The connection is much faster than the DSL Lite. The land line has terrible reception, perhaps because the phone lines in my apartment are steel, something that hasn’t been used since the beginning of the last century. I imagine getting that fixed would have been quite a palaver. I was paying $37 for my basic phone service with no long distance and another $30-ish for the Internet connection. Now, I pay only $30 for the next three months and then it goes up to $40 or $45 or something like that. The land line was bugging me. I didn’t need it anymore. I upped my cell minutes to 800 last week, so I should be OK. I’m very pleased to be done with BellSouth. I really resented the way they were charging me an all-inclusive price, so I couldn’t pay less for fewer features. I just wanted a number people could call. There’s no way that should cost $37. I’m not saying. I’m just saying.

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