so i have bronchitis, and on top of trying to go to work tomorrow, i cant sleep. i dont know if its because of the antibiotics im taking or its just coinsidently one of those nights. i sleep so well 98% of the time, so i get an awful night like this every so often. doesnt happen a lot, and usually not this bad. ive read and knitted, two things that ( Read more... )

fuck people.

so even though i live in oregon, i may be working in florida? fingers crossed! no details yet!

so if i havent mentioned it already, the portland library system is unfucking believable and its just fabulous. so far there hasnt been a movie that i have searched for that they dont have. for free. no more video stores. thats probably why you dont see a whole bunch of them out here. all the smart people just use the library. they have branches ( Read more... )

first christmas away from my family. we had christmas at my parents on friday with my brother and his wife and my grandpa and his wife. but still, it is weird not being there. anton's family is great and i love them and it has been nice being here too ( Read more... )

right now i am sitting on a conference call for work. it is a joke. we have to have one every two weeks. of course, no one can hear anything, mostly because everyone is at home and their kids are screaming into the phone. but there it is ( Read more... )

it snowed off and on all day today!! yay!

none of it is sticking, but whatever. it is so pretty! its great because we get the luxury of having snow but not trudging through it waste deep. ha!

i also just heard a recording of jesus christ superstar played with bagpipes. wow.

i mean really. wow.

it might snow on monday night or tuesday. and not in the mountains either in the city. mwuahahah!

i just hope if it decides to do it at night that i'll be able to see it and it not all be melted by the time i wake up.

so we are getting together with two friends we have met so far who dont have any friends or family either. one is from antons work who has just moved from ohio. the other is a musician anton met at one of the sessions who is from england but has lived in the states for a while. so this is the first thanksgiving where i am in charge and responsible ( Read more... )

yesterday i got majorly lost ( Read more... )

The time changed. It is now dark at 5:30. Late fall has definitely set in here in Portland, and winter is on its way. All the leaves are falling, and and the rain is coming. It gets dark in florida around 5:30 eventually. But last year, as I was looking at the sun charts out of curiosity, I noticed that eventually it will get dark at 4:30 and even ( Read more... )