Archive | Aca-Queen of the World

01 November 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Here’s a new one

Varsity Vocals applications were due today. I was out walking Molly around 9:30 am (she refuses to get out of bed before the crack of nine; it is her one redeeming quality), when I see what is obviously a college kid (I spotted his hooded sweatshirt with pushed-up sleeves from halfway down the block) standing [...]

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31 October 2010 ~ 2 Comments

A very scary Halloween

Beware, all ye souls who enter here!!!! … for a haunting and twisted Halloween tale awaits. (For those particularly faint of heart, it is advised that you skip directly to the photos at the end.)
November 1 is the deadline for college a cappella groups to apply to participate in several programs run by my small [...]

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08 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Special delivery

Once you become the owner of a small business that operates nationwide, the days of simple tax returns are over. Lookee what arrived in the mail for me today:

My tax return is HUGE. Unfortunately, my tax refund is not. Apparently the quantity of pages in your tax return paperwork is in no way correlated to [...]

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10 March 2010 ~ 3 Comments

For The Longest Time

Nine years ago on this day, twelve college students in central Illinois crammed a week’s worth of luggage and themselves into two too-small minivans. Bound for the East Coast and armed with little more than a pitch pipe and our voices, we were a college a cappella group on spring break tour, at the ready [...]

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24 November 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Price Check on Aisle Two, or Why I Shouldn’t Be Running A Business

This is why I have a hard time giving myself enough credit for running my own business: even when exciting things happen, I somehow inevitably end up taking a Third World mode of transport to an important meeting.

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