(Insert all usual apologies for taking so long in between real updates here.)

The first two weeks of teaching are history now for both me and Geography Teacher, and we celebrated surviving the first week last Friday night by going out to Luigi's on the lake, so we could relax with a drink and some yummy Italian food and enjoy a sunset so gorgeous ( Read more... )

... waking up to a filthy sinus migraine and the reality of a house without coffee... and then having your Knight in Shining Cardigan bring you both a giant, freshly-brewed coffee, and a healthy supply of coffee beans for later, because caffeine is the only thing that really helps. (Thanks, Geography Teacher. &hearts ( Read more... )

First of all, a thousand thanks for all the incredible kindness and good wishes on my last post, which has totally overwhelmed me, and just... thank you for being wonderful. I've always known you were excellent friends, but you continue to impress me with said excellence all the time. I don't know what I've done to deserve your friendship, but I'm ( Read more... )

( I feel ashamed to say it, but the Avengers squee baffles me )

I really do mean to be posting more frequently than once a week, but with the semester in swing, it seems like every day is eaten up with so many things, and before I know it, I look up and a week has gone past. It's a fruitful semester so far, but a hectic one.

And still, there are many good things. These are a few of them:

( Of BPAL and writing time and an ode to the carnival )

Life is still good, as it has been good, and (I hope) will continue to be good. The universe keeps throwing random benevolent things at me when I least expect them, for reasons that defy my understanding as yet, and I keep feeling quiet amazement that the world is such a strange and strangely beautiful place ( Read more... )

~cheery wave ( Read more... )

Still not doing the Gratitude Meme, which is just as well, not because I am not grateful--I am, very much so--but because I've just been too busy with life and, after a week of mostly distressing news without a single full night of sleep, my heart is heavy with worry for other people and my mental acuity is hovering somewhere between that of a ( Read more... )

I haven't been doing the Gratitude Meme here on LJ, although I try to do that--if in no place other than my own mind--pretty regularly in real life. But today, in particular, I have some lovely things for which I am feeling very grateful, so I might as well share them with you. :-)

Grateful Thing the First: Othello had surgery today to remove a ( Read more... )

The sun is shining brightly, I have had good music and good laughter and good toast (toast being the lynchpin of a good day, obviously), I am beta-reading a wonderful story and about to leave a glowing review for another, my neighbor from across the street has just given me a big clump of daisies to transplant to my garden (what lovely and generous ( Read more... )