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As if I didn’t have enough to do

  • Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:00 am

I bought the house from Mama.

No, I haven’t completely lost my mind. (Although sometimes I do wonder.)

How many chances do you get to buy a home from the original owner when you KNOW what the issues are?

So far I’ve alternated between putting out fires and trying to make upgrades. For example: I bought spackle, primer and a gallon of paint for my room…and then a pipe split. So now I also get to add “replace crawlspace insulation and rodent barrier” to the list.

As you can imagine, the list is getting hard to manage.

The good news is that the roof and furnace are +/-8 years old, as is the laminate flooring.

That means now I get to (not) blog about fixing the house along with the gardening and the cooking that I’m getting ready to start doing.

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But Wait! There’s More! Salem College Again

  • Posted on July 2, 2008 at 12:01 pm

The Winston-Salem Journal has interviewed Jacqueline McBride, the director of communications at Salem College about the Salem Youtube college tour video I mentioned.

In the interview, she says exactly what I would expect from a starstruck teen: “I’d be a fool not to use it”.

Ms. McBride, please – be a fool. You’re selling the students short by using a celebrity moment that’s 8 years old (which is 20BILLION years in internet time) and that isn’t relevant to the student experience there to market the school. The time to use that brief celebrity moment *maybe* would have been in the 2001 marketing video.

MAYBE.

Salem College has so much more to recommend itself than this. And you should know that.

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