"This is my excavation and today is Kumran ( Read more... )

I have two black eyes from not sleeping enough. It's finally May. It's going to be very warm today. I just want to lie on the couch with my sweetheart. It's a half-day for the kids, report-card conferences. I always think I'm going to get so much work done on these days and then I'm disappointed. I think I'll plan to just hang around and get ( Read more... )

I feel kind of strange.

I just do not have it in me to do one more person's job. I don't. Actually, I do. But I'm not all that willing to give it up.

Just came from a graduate seminar in which the person in charge of teacher certification, who is also an assistant dean of graduate studies, answered all our questions. It was such a relief. I have a power point, a bunch of links, and a packet of information and forms. I like those things. I also learned that site selection - the process by which I ( Read more... )

Last night, I was sitting on the steps talking on the phone with my sister and watching a homeless cat chase moths in the yard. It was about 70 degrees. I kept thinking about how it was supposed to get cooler later at night, and to rain. The wind was starting to pick up. I didn't want to go inside, in case today turned out inexplicably cold again. ( Read more... )

Wow, so this online guide to the themes of Romeo and Juliet simply does not get it.

This reliance on the motif of Fate in the play is the most representative of Shakespeare's dramatic deficiency. It is not the lovers' flaws that lead them to ruin; the tragedy does not spring from their own weaknesses. As a result, there is little growth of ( Read more... )

Some bands I like right now, because I can never remember what music/bands I like. I feel the need to make a short list.

Spoon
Guided By Voices
Quasi
Wolf Parade
Beirut

I felt so absolutely horrible by the end of the school day today that on my way out to my graduate seminar, I sat on the train and cried, like an idiot. By the train ride home, I was feeling much better and lighter and more resilient. I got home, almost got run over by an asshole who ran the stop sign in front of my house, saw a brilliant flash of ( Read more... )

Every morning, after I make my tea or my coffee, whichever I'm drinking that day, I step out onto the front porch and stand for a few minutes, looking at the early empty taxis, the moon and stars if they're showing, the treetops, whatever the weather is doing. This morning, I wore a sweatshirt with a shawl over it, and a hat. If I step outside like ( Read more... )