Tiffany PinkDog’s Blog

I had hoped to finish my Nanowrimo novel this month, but in truth I haven’t written a word. As soon as November ended, I stopped working on it and haven’t laid one more keystroke.
I did, however, read a novel. Usually I can chug through a novel in a week, week and a half. Two to [...]

Once upon a time, in my previous life at Degree Granting University, I was the second wife to a great guy named Chris. Don’t get me wrong; his first wife was alive and well, and they were still married. You might know her–her name is Cindy. Oh, and Chris and I never exchanged vows. We [...]

At Halloween, I stopped exercising and slowly began to regain weight. I hadn’t been doing much exercise–just 20 minutes on the exercise bike every day and 100 crunches/50 pushups twice a week. But it had been enough for me to lose 6 lbs, and the cessation of the exercise has been enough for me to [...]

Ha! About 24 hours after the rest of the US found out, I found out that my house is one of the few places in the Atlanta metro to have electricity! Huh. I had no idea until some blogfriends asked me and my parents called just to see if they could get through. It was [...]

In a couple of days I will submit my grades and go into ‘retirement’. The funny thing is that I am already questioning that decision, thinking about how I will miss school next semester. I guess the grass IS always greener on the other side, huh?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my career [...]

You know, our grad school (shudder) may have been cruel in many ways, but oddly enough, I think we can all agree that no matter the subject you were asked to teach to undergrads, kind pedagogies were the order of the day. It’s ironic, but true.
Yes, the grad students may have been subjected to the [...]