So you may or may not have heard, but over the weekend, I quietly turned 31. After 30, these subsequent birthdays feel like no big thing (at least until 2017.) I dragged a group of my friends up to New World Home Cooking, one of my favorite restaurants in the Hudson Valley that just happens [...]
Archive for the ‘oh so meta’ Category
12 Jan
Actually, I’m going to say it’s better to receive
Posted by Noelle in oh so meta. 34 Comments
18 Nov
Blogworthiness
Posted by Noelle in Drop Everything And Read, Hooray for Hollywood, I'm not judging you, oh so meta, That Darn Cat. Tagged: A Thousand Acres, Pigeon Kicker, TAFKAP. 22 Comments
Thanks to everyone who commented yesterday, that was a fun little deep-thoughtish discussion. I appreciate all of your internet-comment personalities, and I wonder if they’re distinct from your other personalities. For some reason, yesterday I was thinking about blog topics for today all day long. It was one of those days when my first reaction [...]
17 Nov
Who are you? (Whoo hoo hoo hoo)
Posted by Noelle in oh so meta. Tagged: pop! psychology. 22 Comments
I think it’s an almost universal truth that people act differently when they’re with other people. It’s part of the reason that “mixing the worlds” can be so nerve-wracking. If you’re always “fun-loving Fred” with your college friends, but “serious Sally” with your work friends, it can be so awkward when your work friends meet [...]
10 Nov
On Blogging, apathy and meet-ups!
Posted by Noelle in Getting Hot in Herrrre, oh so meta. 24 Comments
But for the recent election, I’ve been feeling going-through-the-motions-y lately. It’s not just the blogosphere, I’m responding to almost everything in my life with a resounding “meh.” My apathy has some direct causes, but it’s also what I consider a natural part of my cycle of enthusiasm. But I’ve been stuck in the rut part [...]
16 Oct
Your opinions matter
Posted by Noelle in oh so meta. Tagged: Who's your Poll Daddy?. 14 Comments
As those of us who watched the debates last night now know, sometimes the most common people can become instant media celebrities just by making their voices heard. I’m looking at you, “Joe the Plumber.” One other thing you’re going to have to live with is the knowledge that you are no “Julio the Plumber”, [...]
9 Oct
My blogroll, in exactly six words
Posted by Noelle in oh so meta. Tagged: linky loo. 18 Comments
Did you know that I had a blogroll on this blog? Well, I do. You can get to it by clicking the link above my friend the ghost and my Mums up there. And I kinda went many, many months not updating it. When I started reading new blogs, I added them to the “not [...]
2 Sep
Just one more day, okay?
Posted by Noelle in oh so meta. 22 Comments
In solidarity with all my teacher and librarian friends, I was going to come back from blogcation today. However, I have some big news that I can’t quite announce yet, and I prefer to come back from blogcation with big news. I have half a mind to say something like, “if you can guess my [...]
25 Aug
The Days are Just Packed
Posted by Noelle in It happened in the H.V., oh so meta. Tagged: hiatus. 25 Comments
Even though I’m not in school, planning to go to school anytime soon, or have recall of any of the repressed memories of my school days, this really does feel like the last week of summer before I have to go to school. And with that in mind, because I can’t take an actual vacation, [...]
8 Aug
Guest post, the first part, but this is me writing
Posted by Noelle in oh so meta. Tagged: guest post. 10 Comments
I have a confession. I’m not a big fan of guest posts. I know that they’re a staple of our blog world, but I have to be honest, I rarely click through to them, especially when my RSS reader is feeling overburdened (which is most of the time.) I already read too many blogs, all [...]
31 Jul
Good Blogkeeping
Posted by Noelle in oh so meta. 13 Comments
I would be remiss if I didn’t first mention that tomorrow is the return of Choose Your Own Blogventure day. So if you’re logging in to find out about what’s going on at the Daily Tannenbaum, what you’re going to find instead is part three of a story that originated at Nancy Pearl Wannabe and [...]
