Category Archives: observations

Is this thing on?

Posted on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments

Since it’s finally the weekend and I’m going to some fun graduation parties tonight, I wanted to share a killer party photo from my friend Allison’s wedding in December. Our gang definitely knows how to get down, and we always bring along our beer-bottle microphones in case of awesome ’80s rock:

Most triumphant! And it gets better. When Allison sent me this, I immediately thought of another dance-floor shot: one from my wedding, of Allison:

Those are some super-fun parties, right? We are nothing if not passionate air-musicians. However, far and away the best part of these photos, taken a year and a half apart on different sides of the country, has got to be Shane, the dude rocking out in the background at left in both pictures. Beer in the same hand, sleeves unbuttoned and sorta rolled up, eyes closed and all-out singing along — and I’m pretty sure that’s the same tie. I damn near died laughing when I noticed this. Does this guy know how to party or what?!

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Posted in friends, HUZZAH, observations, photography, ROCK, social graces, weddings

my GSUiversary

Posted on April 23, 2012 | 1 Comment

Last Friday marked a year since I began my new job. In most ways, this is the first real job of my career; I feel like my initial 3.5 working years out of grad school led to brain atrophy and little else. (Well, that’s not true — it did good things for my salary history, and I learned some new parts of my hometown.)

I was really excited to start this job, because there was basically no way it wouldn’t be a thousand times better than my first one. Happily, that has been the case, and not merely by default. It comes as no surprise to me that I really enjoy working in a university environment. I’m writing stories and connecting media people to experts, meeting with faculty and proofing pages, and the subject matter I’m dealing with is constantly changing. I feel productive most days, which rarely happened before. Above all, I have a kickass group of coworkers who are not only great colleagues but people I want to hang out with after hours.

It isn’t all bunnies and moonbeams, of course — I am nowhere close to being past my frequent fits of writerly agony, and I still have plenty to learn on each of my beats. Someone told me shortly after I started that it takes a full academic cycle to get your bearings, so by that measure I’m just about on track. Regardless, I’m happy to have landed in such a nice place. Go Panthers!

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Posted in deep thoughts, grown-up stuff, higher ed, HUZZAH, observations

for the record…

Posted on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment

I just want to note that the weather this week — uncharacteristically warm and polleny (and lovely, it must be said) for this time of year, even in Atlanta — is pretty much exactly the same as it was in May of 2010 around my wedding. Here’s now, March 2012:

And here’s two years ago-ish, May 2010:

That is so noots! If we’re in May now, weatherwise, then what the hell is actual May going to feel like? Nevermind July or August…

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Posted in Atlanta, observations, Whaa?