life has become busy yet left me with nothing interesting to talk about. every day i think about posting, but can never come up with the right combination of creativity, energy, and time. right now, however, i am putting off going for a run; if i sit at the computer long enough it will get too cold and dark to run in the park by my house.
so! a list:
+ antiquarian book fair today. fun stuff. didn’t buy anything, of course.
- the inevitable became un-postpone-able. long-distance relationships are inherently crappy but while it lasted i did better than i ever expected to. all the same, am grumpy and will be so for a while, i imagine. stupid life.
+ started the new job on monday. it has gone pretty well so far. i’m mostly working on trying to get kids to come in at this point, but i had two distance papers to look at. that was good because it put much less pressure on me – they email their papers in and i email comments back, which is a lot better than having someone sitting there watching me. plus both students emailed back to say that my comments were helpful and made sense, so that was an extra special bonus.
- school, which started a week and a half ago now, is finally going to start actually requiring things of me this week. two little reading response papers are due on thursday and sometime soon i have to shadow someone in a reference environment for 4 hours. i am thinking about doing it at the yarn store, if i can make a case for it being reference.
+ fabulous eggplant parmesan was made and consumed with my help. it makes me happy to think about it. yum.
- the shower is not draining again. it seems to need to be fed a bottle of drano every few weeks. stupid shower.
+ new job is allowing me to buy some new clothes, and a new bag, and even some groceries. this is extremely exciting as i hate all my clothes, and my bag has holes in it, and groceries are good.
i could go on but it would get trivial (even more than usual). fingers are cold, boo; laundry is clean, yay; reading two good books, yay; both will be over soon, boo. etc.
(song: “waltz no. 2,” elliott smith)