academom http://academom.syr.edu/ 2008-06-17T14:11:24-05:00 yep. it's official. http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/yep_its_officia.html Ye olde acadeee now lives in a new space: http://academom.wordpress.com I'll be posting there from now on. I still have some sprucing to do, but it'll do for now.... bloggin mryonker 2008-06-17T14:11:24-05:00 on the move http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/on_the_move.html So, I spent a lot of today thinking and messing with this blog, wondering where to put it and exporting and importing experimentally, etc. I was pretty sure I was planning on moving things over to Wordpress, whose free service... bloggin mryonker 2008-06-12T22:05:32-05:00 shit! I missed it http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/shit_i_missed_i.html I totally missed my blogiversary. Two days ago, this here blog turned FOUR. Four whole years I've been writing in this here space. Holy crap, guys. Four years.... bloggin mryonker 2008-06-11T23:04:11-05:00 small fleeting paralysis http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/small_fleeting.html So. I'm moving in three weeks. I've never, really ever, lived in one place as long as I've been here in CNY. Growing up, we moved just about every year, sometimes staying two years, and ironically, staying three once J,... daily dilly-dally mryonker 2008-06-11T14:54:09-05:00 new food obsession--elvis nachos http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/new_food_obsess.html This one really reflects my personality when it comes to food: I *want* to be a healthy, crunchy-granola, flax-seed eating nutrition zealot. But I am WEAK. Weak I tell you. So, what I have eaten at least once a day... eating mryonker 2008-06-09T15:04:46-05:00 the *real* marathon training season http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/the_real_marath.html As D illustrates today in one of her signature acronym-busting posts, finding a proper marathon training schedule can be as painful as the training itself. Well, not really, but it sounded good. But it's only hard if you want to... running mryonker 2008-06-05T08:18:22-05:00 yet another reason... http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/yet_another_rea.html ...to rejoice that this administration is on its way out. Dick Cheney gaffes again.... daily dilly-dally mryonker 2008-06-03T16:44:32-05:00 so close, and yet so far http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/06/so_close_and_ye.html After I finish the introduction today, which I should, considering its close-to-completion, I will have written an entire first draft of my dissertation. And boy, is it still a mess (hence, the title of this post). I'm back drinking coffee... school stuff mryonker 2008-06-02T16:43:12-05:00 buffalo half race report http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/05/buffalo_half_ra.html See last year's report here. And the year before, when I ran the full. A quick rundown this year, as we are gearing up for a family day of hiking at Salmon River Falls. This year, the Buffalo race was... running mryonker 2008-05-26T11:01:36-05:00 the run-down http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/05/the_rundown.html If you read me through an aggregator, you might not have noticed: I'm doing a lot of my updates through twitter now. I know I have quite a few readers who actually come (go?) to the academom site itself and... daily dilly-dally mryonker 2008-05-19T15:49:55-05:00 the goat http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/05/the_goat.html MountainGoat2008 Originally uploaded by mryonker We finally ran it. And now I'm moving away, and if I want to run it again, I'll have to drive for 5 hours. *sigh*... mryonker 2008-05-08T08:32:28-05:00 #500 http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/05/500.html Hi everyone!!! This is post #500 on ye olde blog academom. I have written 500 times here. Hole. Eee. Sheet. And since you're here, I'm sending you away. Please consider buying my house. It's beautiful and perfect and I don't... daily dilly-dally mryonker 2008-05-06T20:34:50-05:00 skip this unless you're writing a diss http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/05/skip_this_unles.html As I've been working through this PhD, I've noticed a bit of a pattern: I like each phase a little better than the last. I thrived in course work, but suffered a little at the end of each semester when... school stuff mryonker 2008-05-03T21:09:50-05:00 public service announcement http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/04/public_service.html Apparently, god does love me. While the snow flies in Syr proper (and apparently in good ol' Earlville), as is being reported currently by various bloggers and twitterers in my sphere, it is BLUE SKIES and GENTLE BREEZES and a... daily dilly-dally mryonker 2008-04-30T15:33:51-05:00 easing back into the blog http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/04/easing_back_int.html I've avoided blogging for a few weeks, simply because all I was thinking about was being miserable and stressed out. No one wants to hear any of that. However, when your mom tags you, you oblige. So I'm back on... daily dilly-dally mryonker 2008-04-25T14:29:15-05:00