As of Monday, I am officially installed in Brooklyn (Bedford-Stuyvesant-ish, actually).  I even got my first item of mail today!  (A book that someone had offered to send me ( Read more... )

I'm back from Epic Travels (as of late Saturday night) and have much to regale in the way of hiking, bookstores, delicious vegan food, campfires, and interpretive reading.

However, I am too busy being on the verge of tears and freaking out trying to register for my damn courses and find an apartment in NYC.  Eeeek.

Those two cups of coffee this ( Read more... )

 At 4 am tomorow morning I will be embarking on Vacation Odyssey 2008.

In other words: a minivan, my parents, my sister, and her boyfriend (who only arrived in the US for the first time last night, and has now duly met us all for the first time this morning), and such auspiciously stereotypical US destinations as Chicago, IL, Yellowstone, Grand ( Read more... )

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Toasted baguette + lemon-spritzed avocado = awesome.  Also Asda's lovely Extra Special Elderflower & Lemon Balm Cordial that Rachel was awesome enough to smuggle into the country bring me when she came for the week months ago.  [Note: the bottle actually says "Extra Special"--so clearly it is.]

Alas. Alack.  I should be doing work right now.  I ( Read more... )

[...] And this is just the type
of thing you want to happen when nothing
is fun anymore and you know you have
to make a change but you don't know how
and you can't help thinking,
There's got to be more to life than this.

-David Kirby, "The Afterlife" from The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems

It seems like it's been so long, ( Read more... )

I had a physical today.  So after talking about yeast infections and sharing an ironic laugh at the possibility that I would be "having more sex lately (hah, still laughing...), I regale the doctor with my back complaints.

Okay, so mysteriously last August I developed horrible back pain, that would sometimes--just as mysteriously--disappear for ( Read more... )

I think I'd forgotten about this journal until just a few days ago.  I have DSL now, so the likelihood of me posting more regularly is significantly improved.

Last weekend was my turn in the month to work, so it was myself and a high school girl with whom I sometimes work--shelf-reading, shelf-reading, and cleaning books. All the while one of our ( Read more... )

The weather is frighteningly wintry today.  I have all intentions of leaving for home soon, and then hibernating with copious cups of tea until well...Saturday, because I have to work the weekend.  Blah.

Books.  I started using my Goodreads account again.  I'd sort of forgotten about it until a week ago.  I'm exploring YA and juvenile lit. of late: ( Read more... )