German: the language of love

So, the other day, I was helping Andrew study for his first German vocab quiz. He kept saying the article die (sounds like dee) as die (as in roll the die or die, irregular verbs, die!). He couldn’t remember the word for table (der Tisch)
I was helping him with pronunciation when Andrew commented: “Wow, you [...]

Fortunately it’s only his second day

I found this on the little sticky note widget on my computer this morning:
guton morgan mami how’s the das buch
Yes, Andrew is taking German this quarter. Fortunately it’s only his second day.

Over at JaNo today

I have a quick writing update over at JaNo today. Come for the updates, stay for the vintage Star Wars pencil cases.

Unintended consequence of the baking club

So today during her allotted TV time, Miss B decided not to watch cartoons, or the Disney channel, but surfed on by those to watch …
The Food Network.
She was enthralled. An entire channel where they cook! It was a baking club! On TV!
She watched a couple of shows. One was with some beefcake guy. I [...]

Books 2008: Autographs and Ritas

Somehow during 2008 I managed to collect all these autographed books without really trying. And of course, Andrew and I got to meet John Green last year. I was going to post this earlier, but I was missing a book for the photo I wanted to take. So we ended up looking for … wait for [...]

You never know where you might end up

So I was procrastinating doing a little web surfing this morning when I discovered that an essay I wrote a few years back ended up in the syllabus for a creative writing course. To be more specific, it was the Kidd Tutorial at the University of Oregon creative writing program.
I have since been revised out [...]

And it’s all true!

I was going to blog about my perfectly lovely week, where quite possibly I spent more time commuting in my car than I did sleeping in my bed. Instead, I give you this video which is far, far funnier than anything I can come up with.
 

In which the baking club meets

The first two meetings of the Baking Club went very well. You might have noticed the link in the Twitter feed to The Pioneer Woman’s Spicy Molasses Cookies. The kids were skeptical at first, seeing as neither chocolate chips nor frosting was involved.
They changed their minds when they got their hands on the dough. We [...]

Weekend update

You may have noticed the Geek Girl Twitter in the sidebar. Really. Geeky. I know.
I’m up to 8,278 words for Dating on the Dork Side.
I’m now in a baking club, membership: 2–me and Miss B. Anticipate an increase in cooking disasters.
I have a riveting post on the tale of our synthetic fur blankets, an in [...]

The geek girl’s guide to creating a collage

Since a couple of people have asked, I decided to do a quick rundown of how to create a collage using Microsoft PowerPoint. It’s not fancy; it’s not really artistic (but then neither am I–fancy or artistic).
I’m using PowerPoint 2007 at the moment. If you have an earlier version, the directions may differ slightly.

Open PowerPoint. [...]