About

Me

  • Katie
  • Early 30s
  • Originally: San Diego, California; largely, Cleveland, Ohio; more recently, a goodly stint in Madison, Wisconsin; two years in Montréal, Québec; after that, around Boston, Massachusetts; currently, outside of the Dallas metroplex.
  • PhD student in the liberal arts at UW-Madison, where “dissertation” is a noun, a verb, and an adjective.  (One might say that am a dissertator dissertating on my dissertation, uff da.)
  • Two cats, one husband, one baby.
  • Personal interests that may or may not be represented on this site include:
    • Writing
    • Candy and desserts
    • Knitting
    • Local exploration
    • Reading
    • Optimizing my TiVo setup and Netflix queue
    • Cats
    • Mildly incompetent French
    • Sewing
    • Photography
    • Baking
    • Entertaining (to me) minutiae pertaining to eighteenth-century culture and literature
    • Biking, doing
    • Biking, watching professional
    • The weather

Site

Jejune.net has been around, in some incarnation or another, since March 2000.  It began for no reason in particular, and has admirably maintained that vision ever since.

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Jejune, a.

  1. Without food, fasting; hungry. Obs.
  2. Deficient in nourishing or substantial (physical) qualities; thin, attenuated, scanty; meagre, unsatisfying; (of land) poor, barren.
    1. Unsatisfying to the mind or soul; dull, flat, insipid, bald, dry, uninteresting; meagre, scanty, thin, poor; wanting in substance or solidity. Said of thought, feeling, action, etc., and esp. of speech or writing; also transf. of the speaker or writer. (The prevailing sense.)
    2. Puerile, childish; also, naïve.  (This use may owe its origin to the mistaken belief that the word is connected with L. juvenis young (comp. junior), or F. jeune young.)