Freeing My Inner Genius

One afternoon, a few weeks ago, I get a message from Todd as I am working hard on some school-related project (likely so, as Villanova laid claim to all facets of my life 2 years ago). It goes something like this:
Todd: you + me…Mexico – April 22-26
Me: Don’t I wish!
Todd: no seriously!
Me: F U
Todd: It’s [...]

We got a pretty good hail storm here this afternoon. This was taken from my front porch…looks like a winter storm blew through. We were out car shopping (sigh) and the clouds started rolling in, but we made it home just in time.  Zack was freaked out…Abbey didn’t care…dog was oblivious/indifferent.

Well, almost. Just moments ago, I registered for my very last Master’s class at Villanova. It’s unbelievable how fast this went! I was in my advisor’s office last week and we were discussing how fast my semester has gone by and the amount of work I still need to do before May. I guess you [...]

I’ve never had green beer before, so when it was offered to me tonight at my beloved Pub, I offered an enthusiastic “YES!” I was down at school this afternoon to attend a graduate forum about presenting papers at conferences, but it fell flat when the professor who was supposed to run it was otherwise [...]

As a Modern European history specialist (I laugh at this but that’s what Villanova calls me), I have many, many, many books about various events that occurred during World War II.  As an undergrad, I took a whole class devoted to 20th century war, with WWII making up a bulk of the semester. What a [...]