haven't gotten squat done all week. no, seriously, less than usual. i admit i was planning on being a little lazy this week because it's Study Break. grad students may or may not really get the days off, but i like to take the excuse. a few days off usually help brighten my outlook later. of course, it hasn't had much effect this year... ( Read more... )

the opera on Saturday was very nice. Lakmé is probably one of the prettiest operas i've heard, and the sets and costumes were pretty to match. and much love for the setting and costumes perfectly fitting for British occupied India. desolatedrose and i were hit with our usual post-opera munchies and restlessness...nicely cured with Wendy's (who else is open ( Read more... )

the one day all week that i'm not home during the entire day is the day a package comes for me! : P and it's going through Purolator, so the shipping center i have to pick it up from is in some weird place. thank goodness for Google maps. anyway, i'm really hoping that it's my Robert Louis Stevenson books that were accidentally left out of the ( Read more... )

have just finished reading The Vagina Monologues (2001 V-Day Edition) by Eve Ensler. i think of myself as a fairly forthright, liberated woman, but i now realize that i have been hesitant about my vagina. not in knowing it. i know it. but in admitting to the world that i know it. that i have seen my vagina. that it has moods. and wants. and ( Read more... )

okay, last time i wrote here was before i left on my trip. heck, it was before The Nutcracker, ( so i might as well start there. )

so this week just zoomed by. i guess that's what happens when you actually do useful stuff...or something. ran errands on Tuesday with J. also went to the bookstore so i could pick up a gift for dernhelm87. walked out with too many books, too. i really must stop going to the bookstore. at least while i have my current backlog. i have actual piles of ( Read more... )

Friday night, J and i grabbed poutine and salad, made a brief tour through the mall (we tried on these awesome lace-to-the-knees boots, but the heels were so high, i was nearly walking on tiptoe), and then did our bookstore run.  i got Born in Death and Glass Houses (by rachelcaine) and a couple others.  yay!  books!  *hums happily*  dropped off J at home at ( Read more... )

first of all, i've consumed way too much soda this week.  jet lag sucks that way, though.  but mostly i'm bad because i once again gave in to the lure of The Folio Society and renewed my membership by buying four books.  okay, in my defense, they are giving me five books free...including the four Robert Louis Stevenson books i was lusting after ( Read more... )

arrrrr, ahoy there, mateys! (okay, i've done my homage to Talk Like a Pirate Day)

( real weekend )

had a good weekend.  went to the gym Friday evening, then went home and managed to clean for an hour or so and do a load of laundry before i settled in for my Friday night TV.  stayed up a little too late, but still managed to be up and ready to go when J picked me up for our drive to Stratford.  the drive went well.  we talked and listened to a ( Read more... )