Man, I have been having some strange ass dreams lately. They're all incredibly vivid and interesting but SO FREAKING WEIRD. Last night I had this dream where this person I admire greatly, but I haven't really ever been that close to and haven't actually seen in years came up to where I was planting peach trees (yes, peach trees) and painting fences ( Read more... )

So I've had my orientation for my new job, and I have to say, I'm pretty excited!! I'm now officially 'A Community Engagement Co-ordinator'. Whoop whoop! The people I'm going to work with seem pretty damned lovely and intelligent. This week was pretty much just paper work, terms of the contract, general orientation and a lot of posters. Yeah, I was ( Read more... )

Man, the media is just obnoxious. After teh shooting yesterday, not only do all these places start instantly reporting things that they have no actual facts on (Giffords is dead, no wait, maybe shes not, there are this many people killed, no, this many, no... take five minutes and put together an actual coherent program), but most of all what ( Read more... )

I am so so so glad its gray and coldish here. I was getting slightly desperate for some actual winter weather. I'm sorry, but 70 degrees just sucks in the winter. Its going back up to the mid seventies by the end of this week, but for now I'm just really enjoying the cold and gray. I really, really miss Yorkshire, a feeling which continually ( Read more... )

Somebody took a huge truck and took it back behind our house, out into that strip of land (bureau owned) between our house and the saguaro national park. They took this truck and they drove it all along my hiking paths and destroyed everything on those paths. Candy wrappers were thrown out the windows onto the crushed cactuses and fractured trees. ( Read more... )

I have so much TIME. No job yet, few friends in Tucson, no commitments, no responsibilities. I don't do well with TIME. I get closed in and closed off and teary and touchy. Right now seems to be a particularly miserable emotional time - I've ended one huge portion of my life (education) and I'm broke and my adventures for hte time being are over ( Read more... )

Nostaliga : a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia ( Read more... )

Done. Celta certified. Exhausted. This post is long and its for my own memories sake ( Read more... )

How do you describe what it feels like to teach someone something? Its like taking on a new identity, its like creating something, its like being in front of a firing squad, its like jumping of a cliff, its like suddenly having to prove your validity as a human and its like suddenly realizing how ignorant you are of your own language, its like..... ( Read more... )

Today sucked. Yup.