From Mel Does Grad School
December 5, 2009 at 4:45 pm
So I frequently have long dialogues about/while watching football... sadly these are all with Bella or just yelled out loud, but I figured I should share them. So, thoughts on ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
November 29, 2009 at 2:59 am
(Image from http://www.friendsacrossamerica.com/)Sometimes - especially around the holidays - I pause to wonder whether I'm losing myself. While most people enjoy some family time ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
October 28, 2009 at 8:28 pm
October is obviously the best month of the year and now that it's almost over (seriously, how did that happen?), I figured I'd better put together my little list of reasons why ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
October 10, 2009 at 3:17 pm
In case you haven't seen it on CNN, AOL, or any of about a thousand blogs, Penelope Trunk of Brazen Careerist fame recently tweeted about a miscarriage she was having at work and ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
October 10, 2009 at 12:59 pm
The Pouncey Twins of UFFor some reason today I was thinking about the advantages of having a sort of "sixth sense" for your teammates in football and just being aware of one another ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
October 2, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I apologize for the extreme lack of posting recently... I've had major technological issues. Mainly logging out of my real-person, school/work Gmail account and into this one in ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
September 11, 2009 at 12:19 am
Two notes and thoughts from tonight -Even though Clemson lost by 3 points tonight, the rush of that comeback reminded me why I love football and why I spend months pining away ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
September 9, 2009 at 1:28 am
On a related note, these are the movies and TV on DVD I managed to watch this summer (sadly, this is as current as I'll be until next May)... ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
September 9, 2009 at 1:19 am
Now that summer's over, I figure it's time to take down the slideshow sidebars I've had up all summer with my wishlist and list of books to read as well as those detailing books ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
September 8, 2009 at 1:40 am
"Do you ever feel like nothing's going right? And do you ever feel like you've got nowhere to go, But you tell yourself you can't quite let go, I really hope that there's something ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 28, 2009 at 1:33 am
The universe continues to test me and this week was no exception. I honestly can't write about it yet because it's pretty raw and unfortunate, but I never went to sleep Tuesday ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 23, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I just watched part of this season's "Hard Knocks" which features the Cincinnati Bengals (or Bungles, as the case may be... felons doesn't quite fit as well or I'd use that nickname, ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 23, 2009 at 12:50 am
I really do apologize for neglecting this blog a bit, but school's starting back and the first big professional deadline of the year is rapidly approaching - in less than 20 days ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 17, 2009 at 10:34 pm
"I’ll help you be popular! You’ll hang with the right cohorts. You’ll be good at sports, know the slang you’ve got to know. So let’s start, ‘cause you’ve got an awfully ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 15, 2009 at 11:51 pm
After a ridiculous week of friends, fun, and sun, I'm recovering a bit (finally) and made another exciting discovery (a term I'm using quite loosely here as I think everyone in ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 14, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I just discovered this incredibly fun and awesomely informative new web site - WordSpy - which covers all kinds of fun new pop-culture words. This isn't just Word of the Day meets ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 12, 2009 at 2:00 am
Earlier this summer I sort of decided that it took too much effort to self-regulate around friends and fellow grad students (mostly because I have to do that enough around professors, ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 9, 2009 at 5:16 pm
"Intuition strikes me as a concept we use to describe emotional reactions, gut feelings--thoughts and impressions that don't seem entirely rational. But I think that what goes ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 8, 2009 at 4:30 pm
...comes from some other beginning's end. (I'm feeling the Semisonic today, apparently.)Just got back from a graduation party for the girl who I would probably call my best friend ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 7, 2009 at 12:25 am
As you've no doubt heard, John Hughes died today at the age of 59. In some ways this is more bizarre and strange to me than MJ's death. I guess it's just that MJ always seemed ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 6, 2009 at 12:12 am
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose RedmoonFor my dog/my parents' dog, Wilma. I say my dog because ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 4, 2009 at 12:52 am
(If only she could figure out how to blog without getting out of the blankets, Bella would have a MUCH more active blog than I ever could...)Recently I've had some down time between ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 3, 2009 at 2:04 am
Finally watched "Swing Vote" tonight - the movie with Kevin Costner, where he somehow gets to cast the only vote necessary to decide the next American president. MUCH more of a ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
August 1, 2009 at 12:18 am
I've had multiple conversations about this recently and I think I've been particularly interest because of my scholarly interest in resilience (and related constructs such as hardiness, ... (
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From Mel Does Grad School
July 28, 2009 at 1:58 am
Or scared-y-dogs?So I'm not a comedienne... who would have guessed?Tonight I'm giving up sleep because we're experiencing a pretty enormous thunderstorm that, to be fair, is more ... (
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