Enter the whirlwind
So. I return to school. And, contrary to some of my expectations, I still live.
In fact, I got an astonishing amount of useful stuff done today. I managed to wake up, bathe, drink coffee, feed myself, and get to class on time. After school, I talked to my supervisor in the Writing Center about which hours I would be working there this semester. Then home, and in a rush of enthusiasm I looked up store hours and bus schedules and went to Tom Bihn and bought myself a padded laptop case. It fits into my backpack, but can also be carried on its own.
Then, since I was right in the neighborhood, I checked out the selection of envelopes at Paper Zone, and stopped at Uwajimaya for a few odds and ends of groceries that I had forgotten the last time I went there. And they had basil plants! Which I've been looking for all summer! And potting soil, even. And I knew they had pine nuts, because I've seen them there in the past, so I got all of these things, and if the basil survives adequately on my windowsill, I can make pesto.
For dinner, I put together some rather good lamb-and-sausage meatballs (with saffron-seasoned brown rice), and also did a bunch of prep cooking, so things will be easy to assemble tomorrow.
I've been so completely miserable and tense these last couple of weeks, and now I seem to be functioning again. It's as though all my energy was being tightly wound, like a spring, and now the tension begins to uncoil, like a slow-motion explosion, like a highly focused tornado. It's an incredible improvement. I only hope I've stored enough energy to continue like this for a while.
In fact, I got an astonishing amount of useful stuff done today. I managed to wake up, bathe, drink coffee, feed myself, and get to class on time. After school, I talked to my supervisor in the Writing Center about which hours I would be working there this semester. Then home, and in a rush of enthusiasm I looked up store hours and bus schedules and went to Tom Bihn and bought myself a padded laptop case. It fits into my backpack, but can also be carried on its own.
Then, since I was right in the neighborhood, I checked out the selection of envelopes at Paper Zone, and stopped at Uwajimaya for a few odds and ends of groceries that I had forgotten the last time I went there. And they had basil plants! Which I've been looking for all summer! And potting soil, even. And I knew they had pine nuts, because I've seen them there in the past, so I got all of these things, and if the basil survives adequately on my windowsill, I can make pesto.
For dinner, I put together some rather good lamb-and-sausage meatballs (with saffron-seasoned brown rice), and also did a bunch of prep cooking, so things will be easy to assemble tomorrow.
I've been so completely miserable and tense these last couple of weeks, and now I seem to be functioning again. It's as though all my energy was being tightly wound, like a spring, and now the tension begins to uncoil, like a slow-motion explosion, like a highly focused tornado. It's an incredible improvement. I only hope I've stored enough energy to continue like this for a while.