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Isabel’s Birth Day

February 10, 2006

At 12:40 pm today, we welcomed Isabel Charlize Santillan into the world 6 perfect pounds and 1 perfect ounce. Dena was a trooper and the delivery went off without a hitch. Things got a little intense after the delivery with some complications, but the doctors did their thing and mama and baby are fine… I’ve […]

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Sleep Deprivation

February 9, 2006

As someone coming off a week of sleep-deprivation, I am definitely experiencing firsthand the way a lack of sleep affects one’s mind and body. In my younger years, I could pull an all-nighter with the best of them, functioning quite effectively off 5 or 6 hours of sleep. But those days are behind me. I’m […]

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Winter Weight

February 5, 2006

Ever catch yourself walking by a mirror and gasp, wondering “Where the hell did THAT come from???” lol Well, my habit during winter is to hunker down and hibernate, so I accept the fact that over the holidays I’m going to gain a little ‘winter weight.’ Now that the temperatures are starting to warm and […]

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Shifting Gears

February 4, 2006

Well, its been over a year now that I’ve been doing this writing thing (seriously), and I’m starting to notice some of my cycles/patterns. Like the writing/editing/reading pattern. After I meet a writing deadline, I switch hats and go into editing mode, which involves looking at the manuscript in a completely different way. When writing, […]

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Manuscript is DONE!

February 1, 2006

Freakin’ FINALLY! Oh my God, if you even knew how hard I’ve been working the past 3 days… This thing took way longer than I would have liked to get shipped, but what can I say, sometimes life gets in the way. I totally would have met my Monday deadline too if I hadn’t spent […]

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HypnoBirthing

January 29, 2006

Well I am coming off the most spiritually intense weekend I’ve had in a while. I have been selected to be present when my cousin Dena gives birth to her first child, and as a member of the birthing team, I attended Hypnobirthing classes with the couple this weekend. Cool stuff. First I gotta confess […]

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Manuscript Update

January 24, 2006

Man, there just aren’t enough hours in the day… Demands on my time have been high, and I haven’t had enough left over to put in quality work editing. I’ve hit the halfway mark on the editing project, but I’m still not done. However, the shipment of this manuscript cannot be postponed much longer before […]

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Reflections on Katrina

January 21, 2006

For those that don’t know, my day job is Program Manager of the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC. Today we hosted our major winter conference Reflections on Katrina: Place, Persistence and the Lives of Cities. I wasn’t required to be “on duty” today, but because the topic interests me, I headed over there bright […]

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LOST Venting…

January 19, 2006

I’ve decided I’m going to start a Thursday blog tradition of LOST venting, lol.*****LOST SPOILER ALERT***** “Who are we, to tell anyone what they can or can’t do.”–Locke Well, that was one testosterone-fest of an episode, a good ole-fashioned alpha-male showdown. Everyone waving their dicks, er, I mean, guns around, pissing lines in the sand, […]

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Goal-Oriented

January 18, 2006

Nothing terribly deep today… I’ve been fighting off a cold all week, and everyone knows how difficult it is to be positive and productive when you’re not feeling well. I’m an EmergenC junkie, so I tend to keep my immune system boosted and don’t get sick very often, thankfully. But the bug got me this […]

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