Rants & things
Work in progress!
2013
- Shoulding all over myself
- Dealing with blood donation rejection and iron-deficient anemia
- Things I’d rather do instead of “killing my darlings”
- Misophonia: When sounds make you angry
- Desperate times in the pants-fitting department
2012
- Talking about death and dying: Whether you’re 22 or 82, make your end-of-life care decisions now
- Confessions, volume VII, the political edition
- Political commentary on Facebook, a call for civility, a plea for self-editing
- Tick, tock. All these questions about my biological clock.
- Feeling like a summer sausage
- She touched my junk!: A perilous “opt out” pat-down
- Communicating with your college professor: 13 Dos and Don’ts
- Contemplating suicide? Please think about your family and friends first. You will be sorely missed.
- Travel tales: If you can’t say anything nice… Hush.
2011
- A note to Christmas haters
- Not all Zumba classes are created equal
- For pete’s sake, be considerate. Shawna’s guide to airport/airplane etiquette
- Banishing verbal fillers: How, umm, to like, stop saying umm and stuff
- Eight things to remember when your gas tank is drilled (or with other unfortunate car events)
- An open letter to the lovely person(s) who drilled a hole in my gas tank to siphon fuel today
- Babies on planes. A public service announcement.
- On being nosy, I mean neighborly
- Braceface Chronicles: Help, I have tooth nubs now
- Road rage sparks conceptual clarity: Remembering emotions are multi-faceted
- My one big fat wedding regret: No moving pictures
- Garden pests and problems
- Who’s afraid of the big bad 2011 rapture?
- Guess what? Addicts are people, too.
- Sorry Chanel, perfume makes you ugly
- The dirt on doctoral studies
- Molested in the name of national security
- Cocaine is not for kids
- Laptops don’t get thirsty
- Why my as-yet unborn children will attend a small, probably-Christian liberal arts college (with single-sex dorms, nuns, and an 8:00 curfew)
- It’s not like I want to be on American Idol or anything
2010
- Epic baking fails and how to avoid them
- Expectation violation: Movies and mushroom meatloaf
- Green bean casserole SACRILEGE
- Collecting felonies, one email at a time
- Grades are not Halloween candy
- A delicate flower I am
- It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
- Insomnia, I loathe thee
- Project Green Thumbs, Season II: Failure
- It’s all a matter of perspective
- Battling stress
- Rekindling the academic mojo
- Ruminations on religion
- On marrying an “old man”
- Dammit, I promised myself I wouldn’t cry
- Bad dreams before breakfast
- A stink-related public service announcement
- 24 hours of terror
- You want “colors”?? Here!
- Thursday 13: Words-be-gone
- Even your light switches are loud!
- Ramen regression
- A green tea pot and consumerist guilt
- Toasted cockroaches
- Dialogue of mad muscles
- The blog-o-sphere or the Shawna-sphere?
- Breaking up is hard to do
- Grading Nazi/kindergarten teacher/saint: Processing student evaluations
- A stinky start to 2010 aka Goliath’s worst day ever