Christmas tangerinis…

were quite the hit this Christmas. I was hanging with Steph and her family in Tampa when we stumbled across tangerini mix. I always thought I would be fun to be a bartender, so here was my chance to practice my skills. I even got an orange martini shaker for Christmas.

My mistress moving in with me…

was quite the excitement recently. For several years I have considered purchasing a road bike. I ride my mountain bike to campus often, but at 35 pounds it is not fun for longer rides. Several friends in the area ride, so I thought with Florida’s ideal climate, the flat geography, and the need to pedal some stress away, I would join them in cycling adventures. Now I know what I’ve been missing the last few years! In December I found a used Specialized carbon road bike in Ocala. It weighs 16 pounds and flies like a kite through the air. A 30 mile ride seems like a walk in the park. I feel like a 16 year old with a new driver’s license placed in a NASCAR race. I have more bike between my legs than I know what to do with…rather scary when I think about it. I’ll keep you posted when I complete my first century race.

Four months of academic labor…

came to end 15 December. I’m not sure how many thousands of pages I read or hundreds of pages I wrote, but it is all over now. Hard to believe it is all water under the bridge. This semester I had five hours of Swahili (East African lingua franca), an African bibliography course, and two general political science courses, one on methods used in the discipline and the second exploring the various epistemological approaches utilized.