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Archive for November, 2007

just a hint

Posted in Family, Fun, Holidays, Language on November 27, 2007 | 8 Comments »

We are going to be getting something quite fun for Christmas this year. It’s entirely possible that we will need professional help to ween ourselves from it because I have the feeling that we will be involved with it into the wee hours of the morning. We don’t want to say exactly what we are [...]

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wamego’s grand elf 2007

Posted in Culture, Family, Fun, Kansas, Kids, Life on November 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Apparently, each year around Christmas time, the library hosts a little drawing to find a child (K-5) to be the Grand Elf for the Christmas Lighting Parade. In Wamego, they do up the City Park with a pretty nice display of Christmas lights all over the park. On the night of the lighting ceremony, they [...]

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the short trip to say good-bye

Posted in Emotions, Family, Life, Photography, Travel on November 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »

As I mentioned earlier, a couple of weeks ago my grandmother passed away. She was the last grandparent on my side of the family, and the one I knew the best, so it hit me harder than any other before her. I flew out there for the funeral and to spend a day or two [...]

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reason number 1 why i want a mac

Posted in Fun, Opinion, Technology on November 16, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Here. No explanation should be necessary.
But, just in case.

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ever wondered how the other half throw a birthday party for a little girl?

Posted in California, Culture, Fun, Kids, Life on November 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Now, you can find out, courtesy of the amazing Jessica Claire. I hope you’re ready for this.

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life lessons

Posted in Conversations, Food, Fun, Teaching, Work on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I received an email from one of my students today:
Dear Rik,
I’m so sorry I was absent today, I got acute gastroenteritis last night. I’m not gonna cook by myself anymore.

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you know you work in an office when

Posted in Culture, Fun, Work on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

…any rectangular, roughly donut- or cake-sized white box needs to have a post-it note placed on it:
This does not have food in it. Sorry.

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on beautiful women and chocolate

Posted in California, Culture, Emotions, Food, Fun on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Michelle recently threw a baby shower for a good friend of ours. The theme was chocolate, so she went all out with the food preparations: chocolate-dipped pretzel rods, chocolate-dipped strawberries, chocolate-dipped marshmallows, chocolate-dipped Oreos, chocolate fudge, and lusciously gourmet chocolate cupcakes with shaved chocolate on top (that was mixed in the bowl used to make [...]

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but what if my wife doesn’t want to?

Posted in Fun, Language, Teaching, Work on November 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Finally, I hope you can imagine Starbucks how it looks from inside. If you want to hang out with your friends, wife, girlfriend, and boyfriend you have to try this place.
From a student’s paper (emphasis added) describing an interesting location. I think he may not have realized quite the possibly violent entourage he was inadvertently [...]

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just when tootsie rolls are the only things left in the trick-or-treating bags

Posted in Family, Fun, Kids, Life on November 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I finally get around to posting something about Halloween.
Granted, I did have a bit of an excuse, if you recall, but better late than never. Especially when there are pictures of cute kids involved.
This year, I think our kids went trick-or-treating a total of 6 times: at the University Program Council’s Halloween party, in Aggieville, [...]

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