today was hard. I talked to Mom about my life and how I'm not doing anything that fulfills me, and about frustrations with life. then I talked to Jens about how we had different expectations for my learning German this week. and then at the end of class time I had five students left and they told me I needed to be stricter. I have been rather ( Read more... )

The internet peeps are coming tomorrow morning! I started my class Tuesday night and they're wonderful, which is such a relief. The party's on for Saturday.

I met with Jeff yesterday, and he reassured all of my doubts. I've found a hypothesis for this paper and a topic for my PhD as well. It's about ( discourse markers in code switching )

the internet -- I don't mean to curse anything -- might be back to a little of its old speed. Gmail is still not up and facebook is laggish, but wikipedia is quick. And maybe it's just the facebook messaging that's slow ( Read more... )

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made my week's quota by breaking $50 tonight, averaging $100 for my two days. My last new member was a lady who invited me in, offered me water, and chatted about b'nai mitzvah when I learned her son's having one next month. Renewed my faith in humanity, she did ( Read more... )

lesson went really well ( Read more... )

oof-ah! found me a pretty Finn.

it's been a month since I got the new hole. I believe there's healing taking place. yesterday i found cute adornments on amazon.

finished the new Kushiel tonight. a fun read. I should probably go reread it. A lot happened over the course of that book.

I'm tired, and that's all there is left to update.

last night I dreamed about David - the one from CELTA, not the one from California. that he tried to make a move until I told him I had another David, thanks ( Read more... )

quite a productive afternoon, though not in all the ways I expected.
for one thing, Newbury Comics had Hocus Pocus on sale for $6 less than Strawberries. Since I went to Newbury first, I put it on hold (go me) so I'll have to pick it up tomorrow on my way to afternoon tea with katancelt as a belated celebration of grad school applications ( Read more... )

I've had this devious plan since mid-December to make patterns in my LJ archive by not making an entry every certain number of days. However, today I want to make an entry. The X is ruined. Heavens. I will still have a diagonal line, though, as long as I don't speak tomorrow. Not hard 'cause I go crew, home, gather everything, then out to ( Read more... )