tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302152922011-04-21T16:27:19.740-05:00This blog chronicles the life and times of a Southern gal living in New England.LOL Massachusettshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11098624303573959173noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30215292.post-40784455649005691032007-04-12T01:27:00.000-05:002007-04-12T01:31:26.999-05:00

I thought I'd do yet another fascinating weather-related post. This whole winter, we barely got any snow. My sweaters were at risk of never being worn. Spring, however, has made up for this. Lowell is about to have its second snow this month! We had more snow on Easter than on Christmas!Insert conspiracy theories in the comments section.And, before I go, I thought I'd point everyone in the

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Original photograph was unceremoniously ganked from Marianne's blog: Art is the Handmaid of Human Good. I just randomly came across this blog, but it seems pretty cool! Marianne is a 30-something woman living in my neck of the woods. Check her out!

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Better Community Interaction Key to NPS Grant[source]A three-year, $100,000 grant from the Lowell National Historic Park has set into motion an ambitious, historic study.Using archival materials, hundreds of hours of oral histories, extensive interviews and participant observation, a team of researchers intends to illuminate Lowell’s global history and its contemporary cultural geography.The

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Some politicians came to UMass Lowell last week to discuss global warming. Here is a Lowell Sun article about it.Meehan, Patrick call for curb to global warmingFrom the Lowell SunBy JENNIFER AMY MYERS, Sun StaffLOWELL -- If Massachusetts were a country, its greenhouse gas emissions would rank 15th among industrialized nations worldwide, U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan told a stunned crowd of 1,000

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Wow, my last post was ages ago. Sorry to leave everyone (all 2 of you!) hanging with such a boring entry about my rental woes. (The problem still hasn't been fixed, by the way; I am putting a complaint in writing... right before I skip town for the holidays.) Anyway, since I only have a couple of minutes today, I'll just touch upon winter 2006.Winter?It has been a very warm winter, with high

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Today, I thought I would utilize video blogging technology to present a problem I'm having in my apartment. I apologize in advance for the amateurish-ness of it! I really should take notes and read off those, rather than do it on the fly. Some parts of it don't make sense, and I had to clarify with captions. Still, I don't think it's a complete failure! Maybe you'll see more of these "

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Southern people often have to fight negative stereotypes. Floridians have the added trouble of not being considered "Southern" by hardcore peach-cobbler eating elitists. However, like it or not, Floridians are Southerners, and it's really all the same to inhabitants of the chilly North; you come from south of the Mason-Dixon line, and therefore you are a complete moron.All right, maybe

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The following was published in The Lowell Sun earlier this week:LOWELL -- The story of Lowell is the story of its canals.The 5.5-mile canal system criss-crossing the city between the Merrimack and Concord rivers "is the reason for Lowell," said Michael Creasey, superintendent of the Lowell National Historical Park.Lowell was built around the canals, he said. Their boundary marks the boundary of

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I haven't updated in awhile. I meant to, but with classes starting up again, I haven't had much time. Now that I'm settling into things, I'm just now experiencing the yearly illness that's going around LOL Land. Nausea, headaches, general achiness... Great fun, I assure you.This reminds me of one really awful thing about living on one's own -- the lack of parental health insurance. Mine runs out

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Last week, I was informed in class that there is a Lowell Master Plan. I have been living in Lowell for over a year now, and I'd never heard of this. Today, based on show of hands, it became apparent that I was far from the only person who hadn't. This is typical, of course, for all seemingly important piece of information; nobody effin' knows it exists. Simply knowing it's there isn't much help,

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Because I know that driving chatter gets boring after… two minutes, I suppose, I’ll keep these short and sweet.MIAMI VS LOWELL IN STREET BATTLE. FIGHT!As I implied in the last post, Miami’s street layout is a lot more organized in comparison to Lowell’s. Everything in Miami is on some sort of grid, whereas Lowell’s streets can be a big old mess. Not every street ends in disaster, but a lot of

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No, this isn't about driving. This is about blog maintenance. I've swtiched to the beta version of this blog host, and I'm trying to get a feel for it. Let me know in the comments if something goes terribly awry... It may also be nice to tell me how to fix it, because this site is all kinds of confusing.That's about it for now. Back to your regularly scheduled blog.The Management** I'm thinking

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Before I moved to Lowell, I made sure that I had some bases covered. I called AT&T to set up my phone and internet service, which was to be ready a few days after my move. I also printed out the directions to several places of interest, so I could get by without Mapquest and Google Maps at my disposal. I thought I was good to go! That was before I realized that not every city was a grid. Lowell's

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This time last year, I was 23 years old and just setting off for the first time to make a life for myself. As I stepped off the plane from Ft. Lauderdale onto Boston tarmac, I was as wide-eyed and naive as they came. I had come with my dad and one of my cousins to scope out some apartments, and ended up choosing the first one I saw. I put down some money on it, signed some papers, and voila -- I

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What do you know? It's a blog! I bet you've never seen one of these before. This particular blog is run by a young woman in her early/mid-20s who, after graduating with a fairly useless Bachelor's degree, decided to go back to school... 1500 miles away.This meant two things:1) I had to deal with living independently for the first time in my life.2) I had to deal with the completely foreign New

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