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it’s not the kind of thing you’d want to run from

not much new in my life except homework and cooking, and discussion of cooking is for another blog.
thanksgiving was pretty ok – there was a minimum of overt hostility and, of course, an overabundance of starchy food. for some reason she decided she needed to make wild rice and stuffing and mashed potatoes and sweet [...]

something in a shade of grey

it is a hot chocolate and august & everything after sort of day. i wish i could be home on the couch in pajamas watching the food network but alas, i am stuck on campus for work and class until 7:30.

i like to watch people on the bus and see what they are reading or [...]

i’m looking in on the good life

no way ’round it. too many things and i shall just have to make a list.
- acquired a new pet! li’l caterpillar was all curled up in a ball on the cold ground so i picked it up and made it warm and crawly again. i was going to keep it in a jar but [...]

send her off to a coconut island

this morning i walked a different way to school, and it seems i stumbled on the secret path of the fast walkers. when walking alone, i walk faster than ‘most everyone else around, especially crowds, so i am always weaving and passing and getting frustrated. but this morning there were about ten people all walking [...]

when you broke my heart

i have little to say.
i thought i was going to be ok – i am not surprised, this is the outcome i expected, and last time i worked so hard and put so much emotional energy into the whole thing that it was obvious that i would be devastated then. but today i am more [...]

but i won’t even look

it’s winter again. it’s cold and blowy and grey and last night it smelled like winter. but it was clear the night of the eclipse, which was so neat.
i am indignant and offended because of two things:
my databases professor asked me in class (as an example for the discussion about browsers and servers and whatnot) [...]