I heard today that I have been awarded a scholarship from the Executive Women of New Jersey! I honestly didn’t expect to win this one, but it’s a huge honor to win this state-wide (never mind that it’s not my state!) competition. 2 pieces of good school-news in the last 2 weeks- it’s nice to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘New Jersey’
I have a thing for old farm equipment
I’ve been depressed, a bit, lately. From the end of January to last Wednesday, it was go, go, go- with basically no break. School is of course a massive undertaking (four classes last semester including stats), finding a new house in a new state and moving, dealing with a cervical problem, then taking on a [...]
NaPoWriMo 4.2 (WD) Jersey Sentences
Blue hair and white shoes: you never learned to put away your shopping cart. ** Minor miracle: driving while talking, eating, and flipping me off. ** Garden state grows plastic cacti and pesticide apples- a bounty! SIghtings…
Princeton
After almost 7 months of living here, Jon and I finally made it to Princeton yesterday for a day trip. It’s only 17 miles from my house, but culturally, it’s a million miles away. In fact, it’s a little hard to imagine how Princeton and New Brunswick turned into such different towns- both are marked [...]
3 to 7 Inches
It snowed today- really the first “real” snow we’ve had since we moved to New Jersey. When we first moved here, I had in mind visions of being snowed in from December-March- nasty dirty snow piled high all winter long. And in fact, if we had moved here in the 70′s, that’s very well what [...]
William Livingston
Welcome to the 4th installment of Place Names. For this episode, I’ll explore William Livingston, who was the first governor of New Jersey and on whose eponymous campus, Livingston College at Rutgers, I spend most of my time. I hadn’t even bothered to think about the historical relevance of the name of the college until [...]
In the Palisades
Last weekend, before the rain moved in to stay, Jon and I visited the Palisades in northeastern New Jersey. The park is an 11-mile stretch of land bordering the Hudson River, and through most of it, you can see Manhattan on the other side of the river. A colleague came here on September 11, 2001- [...]
Asbury Park
This rather mundane and humble post, one of the gazillion pieces of internet spam that is clogging up our public space even more than normal during NaBloPoMo, serves a triple purpose: share photos of a weekend trip I took last weekend, meet my “1 post a day requirement” for this month, and is ALSO my [...]
Place Names: Kilmer
Here in my new town, and at Rutgers, I am surrounded by street and building names named after people I’ve never heard of. Joyce Kilmer Avenue was the first road I had to find on the map when we visited Rutgers in March, and beyond assuming Joyce was a woman, I had no idea who [...]
Library Politics
Hi everybody- I bet you forgot about me! I’ve been taking a bit break from blogging the last couple of weeks as I continue to adjust to my new life and identity. It’s a lot to take in all at once- and I’m just now crossing the 9 week mark of living in NJ. I [...]
