It is 5:30 p.m. My grades have finally been turned in, various administrative errands run. I've gone to the bank and the grocery store, made three runs to the trash to get rid of all the boxes that accumulated during my recent "back to school" shopping spree. I ate an early dinner (my first food of the day), and am sipping a glass of white wine ( Read more... )

I am in pre-trip triage mode now, trying to squeeze in 6.42 million things before I leave Friday. So of course, last week I invited my next-door neighbors to dinner tonight. Because I am slightly insane ( Read more... )

I have the best friends in the whole world.
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1. Today I found out I was selected for a special honors seminar for three days next month. I think it's supposed to be prestigious, although I've no idea how many people actually apply to these things (I suspect they may end up just taking anyone who bothers to ask). Regardless, I'll be able to do some intense work, meet some fellow students from ( Read more... )

I wrote this in another context, and a conversation earlier with klytaimnestra made me think I might as well post it here. In a way, it's the sort of thing I would once have posted in my "real" journal (yes, I still think of it that way, ridiculous though it is), but I find myself oddly shy about posting there anymore. Hmm. Maybe eventually I'll put it there, ( Read more... )

(via mamculuna)

Right now (give or take 5 minutes) I am:

eating: a wrap made with a roasted pepper and garlic tortilla (warmed in the skillet), organic guacamole, alfalfa, and a handful of shredded cheddar and jack cheese. Mmm.
drinking: Diet Coke
wearing: D&G flared beige cotton twill slacks, sleeveless plum-colored top, dangly silver, purple, and dark ( Read more... )

Man, this has been an exhausting week. I think there was one night when I got more than 5 hours' sleep, but--oh, wait, no there wasn't. I would really like to curl up into a ball and sleep until tomorrow morning, but that's not gonna happen. Why does everything have to take so much time?

Random amusing moment: I have a Foucault finger puppet ( Read more... )

Midweek, so tough to characterize. A hurdle to get past through sheer determination, or by huddling under the covers until it's over? I really, really long for the latter, but am trying ( Read more... )

Last year I wrote a whole post about this being the anniversary of my mother's death. That's one of my favorite photos of her; I have some more that Dario sent me a couple of months ago, but I can't seem to find them on my hard drive and am too tired to perform an all-out hunt ( Read more... )

I worked until about 11:30 last night, and decided to call it quits early (lately I've been staying up until about 1 a.m. finishing things for the next day). I woke up at 5:30, and started to get up, but decided I should take advantage of having no classes today to sleep in a bit ( Read more... )