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Alaska*: Day 1
I've always been poor with titles. This makes it a lot easier.
I've been up since 4 this morning Florida time , but I'm delighted to be in Vancouver, one of the most beautiful cities in the world (and I've seen a city or 2 in my day.) The flying wasn't nearly as traumatizing as I feared. First class and noise canceling headphones do wonders. How ( Read more... ) -
Alaskan Prelude
I need to warm up my writing muscles before September, so I'll be chronicling each day of my Alaska trip here. I've been dropping the ball on any type of writing recently; lounging around the pool with Frankie doesn't lend itself to much. You understand.
Tomorrow Mommy and I are waking up at the crack of 4 a.m. and catching the earliest possible ( Read more... ) -
Notes from up North
I'm in the big bad city with my mother. Her first time, my fifth. We wound up in the upper east side instead of the lower, where I thought our hotel was booked, but it's turned out well because I'm figuring out a part of the city I probably wouldn't have otherwise (unless I turn into some high powered business exec, improbably), and we've had ( Read more... ) -
I'll have coffee with my cold meds, thanks.
I'm a smidgen under the weather, but not enough to keep from updating or unloading the dishwasher. Aren't you the lucky ones!
First of all, subbing is OVER (cue church choir). I think teaching itself, with a permanent classroom, might not actually be a bad gig, but subbing's completely different. It's all the annoyances of regular teaching, only ( Read more... ) -
Wet
My hair has started to curl, something gallons of gel and hairspray and several hours in hot rollers have thus far failed to accomplish. Thanks, 6 straight days of rain! Evan just called me from Arizona, and apparently it's raining there, too. In the DESERT.
I literally had one foot out the door this morning before deciding I wasn't going to work ( Read more... ) -
Into the Woods and LOST: A Comparative Study
I haven't used the English major lobe of my brain in a while, and I should probably warm it up a little before grad school gets here. Also, I couldn't find work today and I've already done the dishes. So here we go (CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOTH).
First the basics. Into the Woods, for those of you who may not know, is a 1987 Stephen Sondheim ( Read more... ) -
Thought Tapas
Happy May, LJers! I'm house sitting for my parents, minus one Jerome (tear), but plus plants, horses, and one diabetic cat. There are a shit ton of things to keep alive here, and they all get up really, really early. Still, there's a pool and cable TV, and I have plenty of time for naps either beside said pool or in front of said TV.
Evan and I have ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I think, if I bashed my head with a brick one day and decided that "elementary school teacher" were the career path for me, I would obsess over my own spelling and grammar. Little kids are super impressionable, and if they see something written by an adult, they take it as gospel. I thought "resource" was spelled "resorse" for an embarassingly long ( Read more... ) -
You give it ONE thing to do...
Look, Florida. I've lived here a while now, and I don't expect much. What I DO expect, however. is to not have to wear gloves and a coat in April. I'm going to have all of the cold weather I can stand in about 6 months; I don't need it now. So make with the bikini heat and pronto.
Other Stuff:
~ I visited New York last week. Saw some shows (Go see ( Read more... ) -
Wow....really?
Evan and I have been joking lately that our grad school decisions would probably come at the precise moment we least expect them; that the admissions people were secretly watching us, waiting for the moment of maximum surprise. They would manage this despite the fact that we've both been checking e-mail and running to the mailbox compulsively for ( Read more... )