of course I ended up working every single day of the last week of december - actually not something I had predicted, since it was pure luck - but I am certainly not complaining. I love who I work with and I'm proud of where I work...and that is probably going to be increasingly rare as I get older, so ( Read more... )

I wonder what this household will be doing for christmas...there are vague rumors that the mother will attempt another turkey-type dinner (a la thanksgiving), but who knows how far we are progressing with americana type things ( Read more... )

sometimes I almost miss mab - I miss the insanity, the catharsis, the elitism of knowing an entity so separate from academia and normalcy. but what I really miss is those afternoons in dr.b's room every week, trying to make the past week's lack of practice into something, running up the flight of stairs and walking down exhausted an hour later. I ( Read more... )

I don't know why I can't quite fall asleep for once - maybe because I've been lounging all day doing nothing, maybe because I'm just impatient and used to falling asleep immediately.
MLC has been chugging along, though I ended up with xavier this year instead of jide (conflict of schedules; of course I'd teach them both if I could)...they're both ( Read more... )

I wish work were this exciting, but waiting on corporate executives in a highly corporate work environment tends to be marginally less fun. in some ways I really missed leaving work with an impermeable layer of sweat and grime...wait. but at least our man-shirts (and to think, I used to gripe about our fitted shirts at sarabeth's) are laundered for ( Read more... )

I always feel kind of silly reporting back on my life...especially since I am not effortlessly funny or cool or whatever, but mostly because my life these past couple of weeks has been spent in awe of the fact that "reasonable" classes are...well, reasonable. I actually have free time occasionally. it's strange. of course, MLC doesn't have its ( Read more... )

new student week: painting our welcome banner late at night, moving freshmen in, giving them presents, feeding them, helping them choose their classes, handing out chocolate, senseless meetings, a capella in our ears, being squashed in mike's car under the debris of our walmart run, lying on the beach, meeting our 232 residents. and the best ( Read more... )

sorry: the past two weeks or so have been a wonderful blend of figurative and literal blur, of serendipity and john's and gelato in the same week, playing tourist on the brooklyn bridge at sunset, failing to grow up and get highlights of a normal color, finally getting a zero fanshirt to celebrate, therapeutic shoe shopping of a clinical nature, ( Read more... )

five single-spaced pages in my journal and I still feel like I haven't accurately recorded my thoughts ( Read more... )

eating at dan's "previous place of employment" three times in the past week has been somewhat expensive...but mostly wonderful and full of interesting sorbet flavors, good company, and massive bread consumption. though, I had two days off in a row after that and opted out of covering other people for once, choosing instead to run off on a two-day ( Read more... )