monday morning ughpdate
this one’s way shorter, i swear.
– i have three papers due this week – today, tomorrow, and wednesday mornings. i finished my paper due at 9:25am this morning at 9:20 in the computer lab. it’s a combination of having too much to do, procrastination, writer’s block, and the subject of my paper being a feminist-tribal critique on native american literature, and the complication of that found in leslie marmon silko’s anthology-like text of storytellers.
understand all that? yeah, neither did i. hence: 14 hours to write 5 pages.
– the charming boy brought me dinner (macaroni & cheese from noodles), kept me company and made me laugh last night while i was making a sorry attempt at writing my paper. however, he did not let me borrow his hat on this cold and wintry day, to which i am responding with prodigious amounts of mock anger.
– winter had been teasing, tossing around windy looks and batting its frigid lashes in our direction for awhile, but now it has fully committed to the relationship. i now have to dress for the occasion, which i forgot about this morning; therefore, i am freezing. depending on how winter acts up this year, i may or may not break up with it in march/april when its behavior can get particularly egregious. jury is out on that one.
– can you get out of jury duty when you are 40 weeks pregnant? i hope so. actually, i hope julie just has that stubborn baby soon.
– every family member has its role to play in the birthing process. husband holding hand [and in this case, getting in/around the big tub in the living room], mothers warming tea and getting supplies for the midwife, inlaws waiting anxiously for the call so they can come over and coo, friends to coordinate meals.
me? i bring the liquor, and a friend to play video games with my brother while i hold the baby and mix drinks. [yes, hold the baby AND mix drinks, because the baby isn’t old enough to make them yet.]
this year: beer and coconut rum & cokes is the drinks du jour.
– went to a surprise birthday party on friday night. she was surprised. it was lovely. my brother, the extrovert, was in high form, introducing himself to EVERYONE.
– introvert = gets energy from being alone, but can be very social or not. socialness depends on how shy they are, outgoing, etc.
extrovert = gets energy from being with people, are very social when that happens, but not always social when things are stressful.
just so we have that cleared up.
me = introvert, usually social in social settings, not always.
brother = extrovert, usually social ALL THE TIME.
– watched the movie superbad with friend patricia instead of doing homework. it was…super…bad. interpret as you will. i do love michael cera, regardless.
– haven’t seen my mom in days. perhaps she has hibernated for the winter?
– my oldest niece, frederick joseph von herfenburg*, signs all of her emails/instant messages to me bwyz. to which i reply: OMG IDK what that is!
– i am teaching her class again (8th graders) this thursday. next thursday? driving a minivan of 8th graders to the power plant on a field trip. i am a chaperone. wow. how is it that i said yes to this?
– this week: new hair, new ring in the nose (instead of a stud) and new winter hat. pictures to ensue.
have a loverly week, dears.
*not her real name, despite the fact that i insist on calling her that.
annoying.net perhaps?
i’ve observed on a few different websites people saying/writing the following phrase (an expression of their excitement):
“yay.com!” or “yay dot com!”
besides the fact that when you go to the actual website of yay.com it pulls up coupons, this phrase is super annoying to me. also hating “the bomb dot com” as a phrase, but i feel its less ubiquitous than the former.
your expressions of emotion are not websites.
otherwise, we’d have “i’m seriously going to poke your eyes out with a fork when i hear that phrase one more time DOT COM”, and nobody wants that.
you heard it here first, people.
last line.
from the west wing, season 1 episode 14, otherwise known as how i feel today at 5:00am:
Josh Lyman: Hey, Lunatic Lady! Trust me when I tell you that there’s absolutely no way that you are going to see the President!
President Bartlet: [as he walks up behind Josh] Hey, Josh.
Josh Lyman: Hello, Mr. President. Welcome back.
President Bartlet: How are you?
Josh Lyman: Well, I’d like this day to be over pretty bad.
ratio.
the number of posts on this blog in a short time period (less than one day) is directly proportional to the amount of hours left i have until an assignment is due.
paper due in 12 hours = 4 posts in 3 hours.
yep. despite 22 credit hours in one semester, i may still have time to fit in that Procrastination minor.
new favorite website.
bacon ’08.
in all the election 2008 hubbub, how did i miss this?
Bacon defeats Fries in the race for the Colorado State Senate.
what a tough choice that must have been.
edit: upon reading this, the boy posits that he personally would have cast his vote only for a bipartisan coalition of bacon-wrapped-fries.
quote:
I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing. ”
— Warren Buffet, via
fridays with sara.
( via Indexed)
had a 3 hour afternoon tea with my friend sara yesterday.
nobody would guess that we are old friends. we are like the venn diagram of friends – we have many different interests and our lives look very different these days, but at the heart of things, we overlap. we make each other laugh, every time. her kids are adorable, my life a bit nutsy. we are both warm and sarcastic, understanding and challenging. she always gives good advice in the way that makes you feel like she’s not giving advice but just understanding where you are, yet you are sent home with a renewed sense that you are okay. we seem rather dissimilar, and we aren’t able to get together all the time due to the different life stages we are in, but in 3 hours every other month i quickly gather why we are still dependable friends:
we connect.
i really hate this word, actually. but in my expansive vocabulary, it’s all i really have to describe this abstract, untouchable, reassuring “thing” that is ever-present whenever we get together. regardless of what we talk about, how we agree, how we disagree – when i leave her house after a long chat, i am flooded with the feeling of familiarity, when you are with your people. it’s not necessarily profound, but comfortable. this doesn’t happen to me that often, as it happens after, say, maybe 8 years of being friends.
some people are lucky to have this as their best friend, one who is a phone call away at all moments. i find that to be so elusive, and very hard to find and keep. difficult to find in my life right now, due mainly to time and circumstance.
but other people, like me, are just as lucky, as they have these people as constant undercurrents, only a text or email away, and a touchpoint of life whenever they find time to meet.
it’s not tuesdays with morrie, but it’s my fridays with sara.
so if you don’t have a sara, i highly recommend you find one. they are excellent.
fyi.
nacho cheese flavored bugle chips are a mistake. always.
lust list: part one.
olivetti manual typewriter.
http://www.fredflare.com
desperately want this. i have an old antique typewriter, which i love, but it’s so tempermental that it becomes more of decorative piece than functional.
i want old-school, typed letter, clack clack clack, envelopes on stamps kind of functional. plus, it comes with replacement ribbon.
sigh.
ipod lego speaker.
it speaks for itself, and it’s sooooo cool. saw it at the container store last weekend.
spy-book camera.
okay, not nearly as functional in every day use as the other ones, but COME ON.
this is so 007 and you know it.
charlie brown tree. i want to hug this tree.
sara, darling. 
