Yet again I find myself silently fighting the onset of a new school year.  As usual, I'm not 100% sure of the courses I'll be teaching. *yawn ( Read more... )

My life went in to overdrive for about six weeks. I'm still reeling, trying to understand. Really trying to stop caring ( Read more... )

Well, it's just one really ( Read more... )

I'm an odd mix of angry at and extremely proud of myself. It's frustrating ( Read more... )

I need life to slow down so I can stop running to keep up.

On top of being in the same corner I paint myself into every single time grades are due, I'm worried about apartment stuff, wedding stuff (not mine, please), summer stuff, money stuff, and novel stuff (my own, just unwritten).

And people don't help. Between achingly missing certain people, ( Read more... )

I've been sick a million times since I began teaching. This year has been particularly awful as I've adjusted to a longer ride on the subway and an even bigger school. I was sick for about two months, but I've been doing pretty well since mid-January ( Read more... )

Last week uncle Fred told mom that he'd been in the hospital with chest pains. Chest pains and my family are no longer on speaking terms and I demand that they leave us alone. Fred has several pulmonary embolisms and has to take a really tough round of blood thinners.

My immediate thought upon hearing all of this was, "Oh GOD! Mom can't handle more ( Read more... )

Since getting my new job in September, 5:00 AM has been up and at 'em time for me. I do it because I have to.

This morning in the shower I had an Enrique Iglesias song in my head. Sadly, this kind of thing does not surprise me as yesterday I woke up with a church song in my head. It made me wonder, however, which would be worse. Please, this is a ( Read more... )

I haven't updated the ol' LJ or the Myspace blog in over a year. Adulthood? I think so ( Read more... )

How hard is it to catch a clue that we aren't friends anymore?  I just needed to say that.

And to tell anyone who still reads this to check out MIKA.  www.mikasounds.com and www.myspace.com/mikamyspace

He is the European lover I've talked about since middle school.  And now that we've finally met, I want to help him take over the world.