Live via the free wifi in the Eastern Iowa airport, I’m waiting for my 6am flight to Dallas and then on to NOLA! I got most of my pre-trip chores done at my apartment, but this beginnings of a cold or some other illness made it difficult. I managed to get to bed at 10pm, [...]

I have a lot to write about, but I thought I would start with the visuals to help add to the narrative structure of my crazy five day trip. Photos from four of the five shows (nothing from Madison, more on that later…) If you click on a photo when it is the big photo, [...]

Look: photographic proof that I was within spitting distance of Daniel Craig. *sigh* I’ve posted some of my Academy Awards red carpet photos over on flickr. There’s a lot of cropping involved in my pictures, so its taking a bit longer than I’d hoped to get all finished. I still have some more to add [...]

Andy and I went to the Meet the Oscars exhibition today in Hollywood, the most touristy thing I wanted to do. Its completely cliche to say, but it really is heavier than it looks. I expected heavy and I got heavy. We also went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ate some really [...]

No, I’m not actually in New Orleans today. This is from Mardi Gras morning last year with my friend Tracy (who isn’t in costume because she had to be responsible and take an early flight out that day to get home to teach). I hope everyone has a great Mardi Gras day. Wear some beads [...]

I know I have to just get over it, but today I’m in such a foul mood. Yesterday was the crying and weeping part of “dealing with it.” Today is the “please don’t talk to me, I’m too pissed to deal with you” part. I said sometime earlier this month that I wasn’t going to [...]

By popular demand, coupled with my attempt to stop procrastinating about photos.

Note: This is the same post from yesterday, just retitled because I’m not paying any attention and all this happened on Thursday, not Friday. Sometimes it feels like the photo editing/video clip arranging/blog entry composing after a trip can take as long as the trip itself. Ok, maybe just as long as driving back on [...]

In just a few hours I’ll be winging my way east for a weekend of New York. I finally get to see Harry on broadway in The Pajama Game. I bought my tickets back in October, hard to believe its almost here. Going to the show with Tracy and Shells. Also going to get to [...]

My Mardi Gras experience has finally come to an end as I just posted the last of my photos. The title of this post was swiped from Metroblogging New Orleans. The latest post describes just what I’ve been experiencing since arriving home on Wednesday night: Convalescence: n. 1. Gradual return to health and strength after [...]