the weather is getting lovely.  i like spring.  i forget that it's going to happen each year - i start believing that it'll be winter forever, that my windows will always stay closed.  and then, suddenly - 70 degrees and sunny.  bam ( Read more... )

out of everyone i know that i spoke to today, i think only one or two people did not compliment my hat.

that is one of the reasons i like hats. 

posting old photos on flickr includes looking through a lot of old photos.  in a lot of those picures i look like my own sibling - not like myself.  i've changed.  but so has everyone else; we look different, many of us are closer to being grown-ups ( Read more... )

i need some hobbies so i can amuse myself when i start to get lonely. 

i am having an awful lot of trouble falling asleep lately. like, i'm not sleeping much at all. i stayed up night before last night and if i didn't have to teach tomorrow i'd do it again tonight. i wonder why this is - i'm not drinking any coffee ( Read more... )

i spent last semester, i think, kind of taking a break in a lot of ways. i mean, of course i had a lot of work to do - that's what grad school is about. and yet, i wasn't working nearly as hard as i know i can, i wasn't doing anything extra, i wasn't exercising or watching what i was eating. and that's fine - i needed it. i've never been ( Read more... )

i have apparently been tagged to list six things that make me happy, which is good. but i don't really have many friends on here who haven't already been tagged so i'll just list them myself ( Read more... )

so i grade papers and do work in a little window-alcove - like a window seat. no screen. feet out the window. just now i was assaulted by a confused praying mantis! those things are fucking huge! i thought it was a bat! it really scared me! i didn't even know that we had praying mantises here. we had them in an aquarium when i was in 6th ( Read more... )

i have a tremendous amount of very very interesting work to do, and unfortunately i don't have the time-management skills to make sure it all happens. i need a better to-do list. a few of the things i want/need to do ( Read more... )

here i am at rebecca's house. home. oh my god. there is so much bad in the airports. trying to get on the flight in dublin, apparently the US customs computers went down. so i waited in lines for at least 3 hours. but then the rest of the flying was ok and i am home now.

and i will turn my phone back on soon.