hmm, this is becoming an every-three-months update...
yeah, i am terrible at updating, i just read my friends page and keep up with everyone else. i am thinking of starting a new journal, just to give myself a clean start with a bit more of a clear objective - to process and think about what i am learning in grad school - i should start one with some thoughts on the intro to ethics course i took this past spring... we'll see if i accomplish that goal.
yesterday was my last day of work at the cafe. i am being completely irresponsible and traveling for the month of august - a wedding of good friends in minnesota and thereby reunion with other good friends - visit to a college friend in halifax nova scotia with a frequent flyer ticket - and a trip to glacier park montana for a reunion of the cafe i worked at 2 summers during college. i am really excited and know that seeing these wonderful friends will be worth it... but feeling irresponsible becasue i should be saving money for grad school instead of spending it all before i even begin!
i have arranged my schedule for the fall and am really excited to start school full time. i will be taking: sociology of religion and church history to 1400 - both at the jesuit theological school, theories of justice with my advisor from sfts - the presbyterian school - and then ecofeminist theology and philosophy - with rosemary radford ruether and a grad student - ruether is quite well known as a feminist theologian and she is phasing out of teaching so i am really excited that i will get to take a class with her before she finishes up at gtu. it will be hard for me to adjust to a schedule with so much free time - i will need to figure out how to be self disciplined. i am never good at that.
this summer has been full of lovely weather and me inside a cafe or an office for most of it. ha. but my garden is fabulous - i picked a whole basket of snap peas/snow peas and sungold cherry tomatoes this morning, along with some early girl tomatoes and a zuchinni! i am hoping to still get a lot more tomatoes and yellow squash... and maybe some more lettuce, some carrots and onions. i am in love with the berkeley farmers markets. today i bought some beautiful yellow and green tomatoes for a dinner salad of mozzerella, basil and tomatoes... and some perfect peaches.
other lovely spring/summer things since i last updated: in may, my sister, my two kiwi housemates and my friend lara and i went camping to big sur. it was gorgeous. then i went home for a week to see my family and gather a few more of my things from my mom's house. in june, my friends' kate and nate's wedding in rhode island. so great to see most of my sojo intern friends... we rented a house near the beach and had a lovely weekend. i miss them all so much - i get to see most of them again at the wedding in minnesota! yay. my sister and i went to lake tahoe for a camping adventure a few weeks ago and it was lovely. it was great to do some hiking in the forests around the lake, roast marshmallows at the campfire, look at the stars... so nice.
today we were in san francisco because she is running a half marathon tomorrow morning - we had to pick up her info and her bib/number - which means i am waking up at 3:30 (?!?!?!) to drive her over there... the race starts at 5 am. craziness.
the weather is perfect here today. perfect. lindsay and i had burritos in the mission district and then did a little shopping downtown before heading down to embarcadero to figure out the sf marathon stuff. i am completely in love with the bay area - berkeley in particular, but it is so nice to live so near to sf. the weather is almost always gorgeous here in the east bay - even when it is complete fog in the city. but it cools down every night and i am in weather heaven. anyone who knows me knows i am really "affected" by too hot weather or too cold weather... so i think i found my perfect locale.
other reasons i love berkeley: i walk everywhere i need to go. including 3 farmers markets, work, school, my sisters house, hundreds of lovely cafes and restaurants. there are trees everywhere... tons of big delicious smelling eucalyptus trees on the uc campus, everyone has gorgeous gardens - not in the manicured sense but in a slightly wild and totally northern california style. rosemary grows like a weed here - everyone has a bush in their yard. tree ferns grow here, passion flowers and jasmine are climbing all over the fences in my neighborhood, nasturtiums also grow like weeds... and they have such amazing pretty bright orange flowers. people are friendly. a woman in my sisters neighborhood asked me about my skirt and i told her i got it at a thrift shop - i told her i liked the trees on her street and she says "oh, i went door to door selling those during the drought of 79 and we planted them all along this street." ha. cheeseboard. nuf said for those who know it, but i can NOT believe i was lucky enough to find housing a block away from this marvel of berkeley life. i love going in on saturday mornings to buy brioche or cheese rolls for breakfast and any number of delicious cheeses for the week... their pizza today is heirloom tomatoes, sweet onions, asiago and mixed herb. yum. and i am quickly becoming not only a peetnik, but a peets evangelist. i am in love with peets coffee beyond any love for any coffee i have ever had before... the fact that it was begun by a dutchman 2 blocks down from my house only furthers my joy for their coffee. there is absolutely no chance i will be giving up coffee any time soon since this has entered my life *and since i will be going back to school. ha. agh, stop me. i love it here. now i only need to make a few good friends in this town! i love hanging out with my sister all the time, but it would be nice to know some people beyond my housemates and her in berkeley. (i will be excited when jessalyn gets back and bw moves into the area!)
so maybe i will get my act together and post some photos on this journal of all my summer adventures when i return at the end of august and also start a different journal focused on my thoughts/reflections on my classes at gtu. hmmm... yeah, we'll have to see about that.
yesterday was my last day of work at the cafe. i am being completely irresponsible and traveling for the month of august - a wedding of good friends in minnesota and thereby reunion with other good friends - visit to a college friend in halifax nova scotia with a frequent flyer ticket - and a trip to glacier park montana for a reunion of the cafe i worked at 2 summers during college. i am really excited and know that seeing these wonderful friends will be worth it... but feeling irresponsible becasue i should be saving money for grad school instead of spending it all before i even begin!
i have arranged my schedule for the fall and am really excited to start school full time. i will be taking: sociology of religion and church history to 1400 - both at the jesuit theological school, theories of justice with my advisor from sfts - the presbyterian school - and then ecofeminist theology and philosophy - with rosemary radford ruether and a grad student - ruether is quite well known as a feminist theologian and she is phasing out of teaching so i am really excited that i will get to take a class with her before she finishes up at gtu. it will be hard for me to adjust to a schedule with so much free time - i will need to figure out how to be self disciplined. i am never good at that.
this summer has been full of lovely weather and me inside a cafe or an office for most of it. ha. but my garden is fabulous - i picked a whole basket of snap peas/snow peas and sungold cherry tomatoes this morning, along with some early girl tomatoes and a zuchinni! i am hoping to still get a lot more tomatoes and yellow squash... and maybe some more lettuce, some carrots and onions. i am in love with the berkeley farmers markets. today i bought some beautiful yellow and green tomatoes for a dinner salad of mozzerella, basil and tomatoes... and some perfect peaches.
other lovely spring/summer things since i last updated: in may, my sister, my two kiwi housemates and my friend lara and i went camping to big sur. it was gorgeous. then i went home for a week to see my family and gather a few more of my things from my mom's house. in june, my friends' kate and nate's wedding in rhode island. so great to see most of my sojo intern friends... we rented a house near the beach and had a lovely weekend. i miss them all so much - i get to see most of them again at the wedding in minnesota! yay. my sister and i went to lake tahoe for a camping adventure a few weeks ago and it was lovely. it was great to do some hiking in the forests around the lake, roast marshmallows at the campfire, look at the stars... so nice.
today we were in san francisco because she is running a half marathon tomorrow morning - we had to pick up her info and her bib/number - which means i am waking up at 3:30 (?!?!?!) to drive her over there... the race starts at 5 am. craziness.
the weather is perfect here today. perfect. lindsay and i had burritos in the mission district and then did a little shopping downtown before heading down to embarcadero to figure out the sf marathon stuff. i am completely in love with the bay area - berkeley in particular, but it is so nice to live so near to sf. the weather is almost always gorgeous here in the east bay - even when it is complete fog in the city. but it cools down every night and i am in weather heaven. anyone who knows me knows i am really "affected" by too hot weather or too cold weather... so i think i found my perfect locale.
other reasons i love berkeley: i walk everywhere i need to go. including 3 farmers markets, work, school, my sisters house, hundreds of lovely cafes and restaurants. there are trees everywhere... tons of big delicious smelling eucalyptus trees on the uc campus, everyone has gorgeous gardens - not in the manicured sense but in a slightly wild and totally northern california style. rosemary grows like a weed here - everyone has a bush in their yard. tree ferns grow here, passion flowers and jasmine are climbing all over the fences in my neighborhood, nasturtiums also grow like weeds... and they have such amazing pretty bright orange flowers. people are friendly. a woman in my sisters neighborhood asked me about my skirt and i told her i got it at a thrift shop - i told her i liked the trees on her street and she says "oh, i went door to door selling those during the drought of 79 and we planted them all along this street." ha. cheeseboard. nuf said for those who know it, but i can NOT believe i was lucky enough to find housing a block away from this marvel of berkeley life. i love going in on saturday mornings to buy brioche or cheese rolls for breakfast and any number of delicious cheeses for the week... their pizza today is heirloom tomatoes, sweet onions, asiago and mixed herb. yum. and i am quickly becoming not only a peetnik, but a peets evangelist. i am in love with peets coffee beyond any love for any coffee i have ever had before... the fact that it was begun by a dutchman 2 blocks down from my house only furthers my joy for their coffee. there is absolutely no chance i will be giving up coffee any time soon since this has entered my life *and since i will be going back to school. ha. agh, stop me. i love it here. now i only need to make a few good friends in this town! i love hanging out with my sister all the time, but it would be nice to know some people beyond my housemates and her in berkeley. (i will be excited when jessalyn gets back and bw moves into the area!)
so maybe i will get my act together and post some photos on this journal of all my summer adventures when i return at the end of august and also start a different journal focused on my thoughts/reflections on my classes at gtu. hmmm... yeah, we'll have to see about that.