I’m famous!

On Monday I was featured on my school’s alumnae association’s blog.  MFAeA, Mississippi’s First Alumnae Association, is posting a series of profiles of recent graduates from the Mississippi University for Women.  This is totally unrelated to anything I talk about on here, but I’ve provided a link for those of you who may be interested (like my mom): New Graduate Profile: Danielle Grimes.

I realize that cropping my Jester babies out of this picture looks really tacky--but I have no decent pictures of myself. It's something I'm working on.

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Sorry Charlie

I apologize for disappearing for several days! Things are crazy around here. My school’s homecoming was last weekend–I’m not sure how other universities do it, but mine has been around since 1884 so there are a lot of traditions to be observed. Homecoming is an especially big deal for the Women’s Studies department (I’m a Women’s studies minor). Additionally, I just came from the Southern Literary Festival, another really big deal as our school hosted it this year and I’m part of the creative writing program. On top of all that I have two final portfolios, a big paper for my Capstone class, and a handful of small projects, plus all the fun things that go along with graduating in two weeks (and getting my apartment presentable enough to host the family members that will be visiting for graduation). I’m not saying all this to get sympathy, in fact I’m not complaining at all. I love all of this stuff, and I took off of work for the month of April (and part of May) so that I could participate in it. BUT, I can’t promise much in the way of inspiring posts for the next couple of weeks because there’s so much going on right now. I still plan to update as often as possible, though. In fact, we’re in the process of getting rid of things before we move, so we’re trying to use the groceries we have on hand (including the two dozen “yard eggs” my grandmother gave me and several pounds of assorted dry beans). I’m sure this attempt with result in some interesting recipes.

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Busy business.

I have so much to say! First of all, I’ve decided to drop my clay arts class because it was eating up all of my spare time (10 hours a week, basically). Consequently, I’ll have a lot more free time (10 hours a week, basically).

On a related note, here are some things you can be expecting around here:
1. That winter hat tutorial I promised a month ago, now that it’s almost spring.
2. Lots of grad school and moving business; those two things are really sneaking up on me.
3. I bought raw almonds and Meyer lemons from a fruit stand while visiting family in Louisiana this weekend. Delicious or at least interesting recipes should be coming soon.
4. Whatever else I feel like talking about.

One thing I’m very into right now is manual box coffee grinders. Also while visiting family this weekend, I got to use my grandmother’s kickass coffee grinder. I’m convinced I need one now, but after looking at several antique box models online I’m a little discouraged.  The cheapest one I’ve found so far is $70, but I haven’t looked very extensively yet.  There’s also an antique store around the corner from my apartment that I should check before ordering one online.  Other suggestions are very welcome!

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New Things

Because I only needed a few courses to graduate with my major, concentration, and minor, this semester I’m trying a couple of new things. As always with that kind of thing, there’s always the nagging fear of failure at something you don’t know if you’ll be good at.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays I’ll be taking both a fiction writing workshop and a clay arts course. Even though I’m an English major, I’m far more nervous about the fiction bit I guess I’d feel a little worse about failing at something I’m supposed to be good at. As far as clay arts goes, I did work with clay a bit in middle school for an Empty Bowls luncheon, but my bowl was pretty pitiful to say the least. I think this fear of trying new things comes from concern about my GPA. The thing is, at this point in my college career I still haven’t managed to make a B, meaning I have a cumulative 4.0. Understandably, I don’t want to wreck that with a fun class, and I don’t want to work really hard in order not to only to neglect my English classes.

But I am Getting Over It and taking these courses anyway. I might even post some pictures of my clay arts I creations, depending on how pathetic they are.

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