Laurabelle's Blog

The other week I decided I'd go ahead and upgrade Movable Type on my library blog, since I'd already done it on this blog, and it had worked fine, and there were so many fun plugins to use. So I got cocky and didn't make a backup. Accordingly, MT broke quite seriously. The problem appears [...]

I have a history of long-distance relationships. My first real friendship was a LDR. I'm not sure why it worked, why we kept writing, other than that we shared a love of books and of words. I remember exclaiming to my mother early on about how much Emily and I had in common, but I [...]

When I was in my senior year of high school and trying to decide where I wanted to go to college, my mother thought that a women's college was a good idea, because it would teach me how to be a responsible, pro-active woman, in a way that a co-educational environment wouldn't. I don't know [...]

Jeff and I have gotten into a nice pattern of cooking dinner with each other, trading off on responsibility for hosting. It's really cool, because it gives me both incentive and help to try dishes whose preparation I might otherwise not have attempted. Yesterday was my turn, and I chose a menu of chicken fried [...]

Sorry I haven't been a good blogger this week. I've been very busy, but luckily I'm getting less sick. I've still got some cough and runny nose, but it's better every day. It was a long week, and yesterday was the longest day this week, which is rather unfair since it was Friday! However, it [...]

Spring quarter started on Monday, and I attended two new classes. LIS521 (Principles of Information Services) looks really fun, which I had expected since it was the class that filled up the fastest at entry-code time. I also had LIS545 (Programming for Information Systems) that evening, and unfortunately it was less impressive. I hadn't realized [...]