I quit my job at the cafe today. It was just getting to be too much. And I felt monstrously guilty for having to turn down most of my shifts at any rate. Everyone will be better off now. My pocketbook will survive the minor hit. I'll just have to make sure to dedicate the new free time to pursuits that cost nothing. Like practicing. Which I've ( Read more... )

I once read a news article about two roommates who got into such a huge fight that one ended up coshing the other over the head and killing him. Know what the fight was over? Toilet paper. They were arguing over whose turn it was to buy more. I thought that was one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard ( Read more... )

1. I need glasses. Just reading glasses, by glasses nonetheless. I've probably needed them for a long time now but I blamed it on being over-worked. Spending too much time on the computer, too much time deciphering student's handwriting, too much time wrangling with Bartok and his nonsensical notation. But seriously. Isn't eyesight the first thing ( Read more... )

The thing I love most about the people here is that they, for the most part, play it straight. There is no subltey to try to decode, there is no applesauce, no mixed messages. You know where you stand with people, and for the most part, you don't have to shy away from showing others where they stand. The people I've met a a heck of a lot more ( Read more... )

This teaching recess is the first time I've been able to own my time all semester. I choose what I do when I wake up. I choose how much time I spend working. Me, me, me. If I believed in Heaven, this would be nigh close to it. Options are lovely things ( Read more... )

Do people actually believe in the existence of soul mates anymore? Did such a notion ever actually exist? I don't know if I even believe in the traditional role of "love" and it's components ( Read more... )

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I've learned some interesting things over the past few days that I feel I must share else I'll never be able to come to terms with them ( Read more... )

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing ( Read more... )

They tell me summer is officially done with. I'm not seeing it, but if so I'm grateful. Slightly cooler temperatures always put me in a more energetic frame of mind. I want to dance in the rain again. I've been watching the forecasts for some like a woman obsessed ( Read more... )