i brought back my weasel, did i tell you? i mean easel, but i called it a weasel when i was bitty ( Read more... )

i brought back my easel, oil paints, charcoals, newsprint and canvases from home. i spent yesterday rearranging my furniture, buying and constructing a set of shelves, cleaning out, shifting, and fighting several bugs including one sick kind i got from jemma ( Read more... )

i actually have a day off! i'm teaching tonight, but i have an entire day of laziness to with what i will ( Read more... )

so kids, i had my first day of class teaching at ahimsa yoga center (across the street from mt. holyoke college) and five people were in each class! this is a very good thing, for those of you who don't know...for a small studio where class size peaks at 14, and for two classes that were having their first sessions...5 is kick-ass. excellent ( Read more... )

well i told sharon (boss at jo-ann's) that i applied to linen's n' things and that if they could give me the hours, i would have to quit at jo-ann's, much to my dismay. her response? "oh! how many hours do you need? [20] Let me go and check the schedule. i don't want to lose you" YES YES YES. this means that i have job security, which is not ( Read more... )

one day, i'll be on the ball with this "updating" concept. until then, happy new year everyone ( Read more... )

well loves, things are in full flux at the moment...i'm rather penniless and a bit worried...but there is a new yoga studio on the horizon, and it's a definite job for me. so here i am, shamelessly plugging the new place, in hopes that amherstians and other locals will find a bit of time to stop by the place and maybe even take a class with me. i ( Read more... )

well i have another yoga-teaching job beginning in january, which excites me much much much. for those of you in the valley, it's on rt. 9 in hadley, soon after the lights where 47 crosses 9...in a blue building on the left...called in spirit common. huzaa!! i'll prolly post more details as they come along, but as of right now i'm hoping for a ( Read more... )

there are bugs in my room and my house. aaand not just cute ladybugs who i don't mind at all...but icky, fat, stinky bugs (they smell icky when you squish them) that make me nervous. i feel as though a good frost would kill 'em...i don't want the warm weather to stop, i just want the bugs to die. is that so unreasonable ( Read more... )

well i am officially working in ware 5 days a week...high school classes start tomorrow...and (i hope) will constinue for the next month and a half. i only found out today, which is rather short notice, buuuuut that's ok...as it's an extra hundred dollars a week which i hadn't counted on ( Read more... )