I love my job. I can enter the building and immediately small children will "panther wave" and shyly smile, trying to catch my eye. At the middle school, a girl who is hanging out in the office for awhile demanded to be hired as the secretary if the counselor and I ever open up a private practice. We had her audition: "Hello, Ms. L and Ms. C's ( Read more... )

today i cleaned the kitchen and cleaned off my desk and put away all my clothes and listened to feist and relient k. i bought a lot of delicious produce (eggplant and yellow squash, green beans and the reddest tomatoes) and even some ginger and white baking chocolate for new recipes that i want to try. i balanced my checkbook and took a really long ( Read more... )

in my lifetime i want to ( Read more... )

last night, t. and i went tango dancing. we swivled and twirled and laughed and he is such a patient teacher. it reminded me of when he taught me to drive stick shift and jan was in the back making fun and t. just kept saying "you're doing great! that happens to every one. you learn really fast!" and i drank one very full glass of very delicious ( Read more... )

i love libraries. i love the idea of them. i love the look of them. i love the smell of them. i love the people who work at libraries and i love the people who go to libraries. and when i grow up i want to live within walking distance or biking distance to a library and i want to buy a little red wagon and go there with my children and sit and read ( Read more... )

( because i like copying lindsey jane & procrastinating )

when i walk back home on nights like this, when there are couples lying side by side on the quad, laughing and loving each other with their eyes and their smiles, i take off my flip flops and walk barefoot. so i can feel the cool pavement on my warm bruised feet and so that i do not disturb those couples on the quad. i tiptoe past the trees that ( Read more... )