For some reason this season its feeling really spooky.

I've never before thought about how our natural seasons are like season in a TV show.

This one's been going well.

I came to this platform to react to Calli's news that she is pregnant! How exciting and scary and so many things.

These past few weekends with weddings spunckles and life has had ( Read more... )

I think it's been four weeks since I updated last.

I guess that means I've been living life.

Two weddings, lots of teaching, Matt Lee staying a night.

What else?

Lots of writing too.

For some reason I had it in my head that Fall was when stuff gets done but I feel like I am just floating on a river of emails.

Things seem very disconnected, I hope ( Read more... )

These past few days have been tainted by a mild and persistent headache. Though I am convinced it is all my fault, some internal reaction to my inability to fit into this world, Marc reminded me it was probably picked up at Ren Fest from one the little kids.

Either way, what a way to bring my mood down.

This past week I have been focused again on ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went back in time at the foot of the Ramapo mountains, and found ourselves in the renaissance.

Perhaps, to make a bad and cheesy analogy, it is after this trip every year that we are reborn, as it cements the fact that summer is out and fall is creeping its way in.

There is a comfort to the routine that makes the expenditures in time ( Read more... )

The semester is full steam ahead, and we are still in the calm before the exam storm.

Things are going rather well. I'm feeling more comfortable at work, a mere semester away from submitting my tenure application.

Research is picking up, and I have a small group(!) out of seemingly nowhere/lots of effort.

I'm getting a little better at keeping ( Read more... )

In the past 24 hours Thumper passed away, I submitted my first two book chapters, and my father finished radiation and chemotherapy. It will be a long weekend one way or another.

We are here, now, in the semester. It's been a busy and tiring week, compounded by my father's treatment, Thumper slowing down, the book, and Marc and I not having cohabitated during the fall semester before.

Less than a week in we are already out of coffee, but the bonsai seem to be doing ok.

There are many things on my mind this time around, ( Read more... )

It's strange to write this when we still have weeks left of the season, but I can feel the autumn air coming in, and at this point it's welcome.

I have been writing, and my father's treatment has been going, and we've done all the things on the calendar except wade into the ocean, which I am going to guess will come.

Even if it doesn't it was a ( Read more... )

We were booted out of the NYPL earlier when after telling us to ignore the sirens, we were instructed to exit into the soup that is the city.

We are in that space between what felt like vacation, and the reality which is la rentrée. Though the next few weeks are peppered with relaxation if we are lucky, and with many rainstorms if we are not, the ( Read more... )

It is nearly the end of the climb to the top of the summer, we are more than half way through the dog days and I've yet to bark, and have opted instead for days of running around and tiring myself out, and evenings of laying in one place until it's time to get to bed.

I've been thinking a lot lately about belonging, perhaps because I think about ( Read more... )