Beside the fireplace there is a little wooden door with a crosspiece. I think it was meant for storing firewood, but scrabbling sounds suggest that it is currently the basement residence of either a squirrel or a bird. Whenever the house is quiet for a moment I hear the scrabbling sounds and see unidentifiable movements at its tiny decorative ( Read more... )

I am, eh, TOTALLY CRUSHING on amazon.com! Wow am I charmed. Can it be true that the house always wins, because for the moment it seems like we're really both winning...

Today I took advantage of a restaurant-free, travel-free, ESL-free day to watch (in no particular order ( Read more... )

Today at the post office I saw Will Rhoades. I like seeing Will. He treats nothing seriously in small talk, and I always get the impression that his particular set of circumstances are just the swellest thing anybody could hope for. He simply loves his life. Have you ever heard of a bouyant, carefree medical student? He reminds me that it ( Read more... )

I'm figuring out how to reflect the needs inside my head onto the space around me, and so am gently living my way into this house. It's so different from the tactics I thought I had to take to make it, living with my dad--verbs like "carve out," "remake," "maintain," "adjust" were all my thing a couple of months ago. I DID have to strip a lot of ( Read more... )

Whew...I feel not so lonely.

Whew...I feel lonely.

Headline from a job posting on eslopportunities.com:

"Teach in Russia! Enjoy a real winter!"

hahaha.

One more lesson to plan & teach tomorrow. Heart full of feelings, head full of thoughts, colon full of gas ( Read more... )

Somebody I know from CELTA wants opinions as to what genre best describes an album he's made with a friend ( Read more... )