http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ "If you speak the word it shall own you, and if you don't you shall own it." Arabic proverb en-us laurakaufmann@gmail.com 2008-06-09T22:37:00-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001487.html It's hot and summertime. The Celtics, being the tougher and more talented team, are squelching the Lakers. I'm about to accept a job offer. The new pastor and family will move up soon, and our coordinated efforts to ready their... 1487@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-06-09T22:37:00-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001476.html George Eliot is far superior to Jane Austen at writing climax and denouement. The ending of Middlemarch is one of the best I've read...ever. The characters' 19th century British circumstances don't resonate with me, but their psychological dispositions do. I... 1476@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-05-22T10:17:03-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001472.html Clouds overhead, humid breeze nudging us along, a fleet of Dorchester bikers entered Boston this morning for national Bike to Work Day. We kept an easy pace, but the ride was mostly flat, so the commute took only half an... 1472@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-05-16T09:28:02-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001463.html No more looming papers, tests, group projects, classes. No more THESIS on the horizon! And I can't properly express my elation at this prospect of freedom after handing in my last paper EVER! It was poorly written, of course, but... 1463@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-05-06T07:24:03-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001452.html Just had the loveliest long Patriots Day weekend. Ben, Kim, Eliot, Jonathan, Joe and new girlfriend Kara, and the Parker family all came up to watch Ben run the marathon. The weather, food, and company could not be matched. This... 1452@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-04-22T21:06:16-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001431.html I found these choice pieces in a stack of papers from my junior year fiction class with Dr. Foreman: Ten things that make me angry, week of 1/13-1/20 [I recorded only three]: 1)The way that my cousin ignores me when... 1431@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-04-06T13:58:39-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001412.html I have a hypothesis that an economic recession will be good for American culture. Although a slowing economy with increased unemployment is almost never a good scenario, the effect of less buying power might be generally positive for our materialistic... 1412@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-03-29T13:39:16-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001411.html These guys are correcting America's grammar. While I understand their motives, I also find the grammatical inaccuracies of America's signage endearing. After all, whatever would do without websites like this?... 1411@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-03-29T11:18:15-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001388.html So Todd, Heidi and I attended a taping of The Daily Show last night. It was fun, though not as euphoric an experience as seeing Stephen Colbert last year. One observation, though: Jon Stewart is about 2 feet tall. Even... 1388@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-03-18T13:05:28-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001374.html Dreamworks' Monsters v Aliens Starring (the voices of): Reese Witherspoon as a giant woman Rainn Wilson as the evil alien Gallaxher Hugh Laurie as Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. Seth Rogen as B.O.B. Will Arnett as Missing Link, a half-ape, half-fish and... 1374@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-03-12T12:45:10-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001370.html I've always wondered why I am the way I am. It all goes back to Saturday mornings with Garfield. "What could be worse than Monday, Garfield? Ooooh, how about Monday with Nermal around?" "Oh no, they never do things like... 1370@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-03-10T21:14:32-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001339.html I'm the first to claim that the Christian Right is an aberration on the history of Christianity. The role of Christians in politics has not always been as it is today. All the columnists and Christian talking heads now talk... 1339@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-02-21T17:39:17-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001331.html Never in my life have I attempted to see most of the best picture nominees just before Oscars. Now I have Atonement, There Will be Blood, and No Country for Old Men on the docket for the next three days.... 1331@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-02-16T13:54:08-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001288.html So what's more American, baseball or capitalism? After spending a day in the "virtual waiting room" of the Red Sox website, I'm very angry with the latter. All I want is to see my beloved Cardinals play here at Fenway.... 1288@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-01-26T19:37:31-05:00 http://laura.bostonblogs.org/archives/001284.html 1284@http://laura.bostonblogs.org/ 2008-01-25T14:47:47-05:00