stuff
this time nexr week I'll be getting ready for the school year.
this will be my third school year in a row in the same school, in the same position, and even with the same kids. this is happening for the first time. I've worked in the same school three years once, but not in a row and not in the same position. we'll see how this goes. It will also be five years since I've lived in our place in Cambridge. that is the second longest I've been in the same house in my life.
but for now we're still in San Francisco. Miriam did a great job on the airplane. My friend from high school was also on the same flight with her two little kids, so that was very nice. We hung out in the little room in the back with the kids and the flight attendants and slept the rest of the way.
Life here is wonderful. Seeing all the most beloved people is very nice. clearly three weeks are not enough when traveling with a little kid and staying a ninety minute drive away from civilization. We did see babushka quite a few times and it is so exciting that she made it to meet Miriam. All my family here call her Mirochka, which really is not something that I would have intended in my most surreal imaginings, but they say it with so much love that I can't make myself make then stop.
My brother's wedding is in 5 days, and the last I heard from the bride the shoe drama and the dress drama, and the chuppah drama and the table arrangement drama (though she must just love my family who could care less about any of that shit, and don't decide whether they are coming to the wedding, until, like 5 days before) has been dealt with mostly, though certainly not de-dramatized, and my little brother is in the final throes of apathy about the whole thing, and we still don't have somebody to help out with my babushka.
this will be my third school year in a row in the same school, in the same position, and even with the same kids. this is happening for the first time. I've worked in the same school three years once, but not in a row and not in the same position. we'll see how this goes. It will also be five years since I've lived in our place in Cambridge. that is the second longest I've been in the same house in my life.
but for now we're still in San Francisco. Miriam did a great job on the airplane. My friend from high school was also on the same flight with her two little kids, so that was very nice. We hung out in the little room in the back with the kids and the flight attendants and slept the rest of the way.
Life here is wonderful. Seeing all the most beloved people is very nice. clearly three weeks are not enough when traveling with a little kid and staying a ninety minute drive away from civilization. We did see babushka quite a few times and it is so exciting that she made it to meet Miriam. All my family here call her Mirochka, which really is not something that I would have intended in my most surreal imaginings, but they say it with so much love that I can't make myself make then stop.
My brother's wedding is in 5 days, and the last I heard from the bride the shoe drama and the dress drama, and the chuppah drama and the table arrangement drama (though she must just love my family who could care less about any of that shit, and don't decide whether they are coming to the wedding, until, like 5 days before) has been dealt with mostly, though certainly not de-dramatized, and my little brother is in the final throes of apathy about the whole thing, and we still don't have somebody to help out with my babushka.