Author Archives: AMANDA!

From The Phantom Tollbooth: If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you’ll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won’t have the time. For there’s always something to do to keep … Continue reading →

If you have done something really clever and found yourself visiting a friend around Santa Barbara in the middle of the worst snowstorm on record for your Illinois town, props to you. Here are some things that you can do: … Continue reading →

We’re relocating to the Seattle area in the near future, and I’m hoping to start up yet another reading club (as I continue to trudge through my dissertation chapters one word at a time). Here are some other short story … Continue reading →

Because a doctoral program isn’t enough to keep me off the streets and out of the pool halls, while I was in Ottawa working on the PhD core seminar and sundry course requirements, I had the distinct pleasure of participating … Continue reading →

I’m away from Facebook for a while, so you’ll have to suffer through my mad research links here! During research for a recent paper about Maplelea Dolls, some wild stuff turned up.

I’ll be the first to admit that I occasionally use the slightest bit of hyperbole to make my stories just a little bit more entertaining. But seriously, this all went down exactly like this: The last time I had the … Continue reading →

This contains mad spoilers, so if you haven’t read Gone with the Wind yet, or you don’t know what happens in Twilight, then this post will likely not be very interesting to you, and may ruin what fun you might … Continue reading →

It’s more of a Call for Submissions in Exchange for a Hand-Crafted Wearable Piece of Art. If you are interested in participating, please send me the following: 1) An email with the subject line: “This is not a contest entry.” … Continue reading →

Sometimes people email me and they are like “HEY WE ARE COMING TO CHICAGO” and I am like “AWESOME” and then I type them up an email of everything I think they should do. From now on, I’ll just send … Continue reading →