i'd fallen for hastings, for a pocket of canada, for granada.
nyc i'd always loved but never understood being smitten for. i've been told and told and now i'm hooked.
maybe I'm easy. well I don't know that I think that. maybe it's that I'm just lucky to wind up in these places.

being in madrid and knowing that i'm headed to ny quite soon doesn't feel too strange or too sad. leaving behind my host family in granada, though, is the toughest part ( Read more... )

i've never noticed the weather and seasons as much as this year and don't rightly know why. break's coming up and off i'll go to see grandpa ed in arizona. it'll be quite quiet, full of time with him, and i'm looking forward to it. plans for next year must get finalized in the next few weeks. once that's done, things like finals and meeting will be ( Read more... )

as any real intern should be, my computer and i were placed in a meeting room to do my work(some menial, some fulfilling...a good balance), but this is no ordinary meeting room. oh no, it has motion sensing energy-saving lights which turn off every fifteen minutes. i either stand and wave my arms to activate them or ignore the darkness and wait ( Read more... )

by day it is a faculty dining room. by night it's a student study space full of tea drinking youngsters itching to be done with the week. it felt very good to lock it up just now, head to the computer lab (full at this wee hour), and print things out. the dispatcher at security was the embodiment of "jolly", christmas music in the background and ( Read more... )

last saturday was frighteningly warm. the wind advisory threatened our old campus in the middle of the woods. as i hoped it would we had a power outage. it was as pretty great, people were drawn from their rooms to talk to each other outside, uno was played by candlelight, everything ( Read more... )

i have the gift of seeing beth tomorrow.
i've got to get up early tomorrow.
i'm going to be pretty tired tomorrow because the past few weeks have been full.
i'm looking forward to tomorrow, though that's not to say that i haven't been well lately. because i have.

coming back from philadelphia with three bardians was so nice. driving a big van felt great, figuring out that i might know my way around nj and nyc was reassuring. above all the other three were just nice. nice in a way that fit well with what i wanted from my night, you know? do you know how that works sometimes, clicks sometimes. and you don't ( Read more... )

i loved seeing little women again. turns out it's not only great fun borrowed from the library and watched at home. it's stood the test time, the test of the common room, and is so lovely.

helena rubinstein was the namesake of the foundation credited with supporting every pbs show which i watched when i was little. out of nowhere i was inspired to look her up. it felt great to have time to sit with julie (suitemate, not mother) and listen to music and have her read entertainment and get around to wholly un important things like this ( Read more... )