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$84 in the swimming hole
May. 24th, 2001 06:00 amDid my 'oh let's lay our head down for a few minutes and wake up 6 1/2 hours later' bit again last night. not too bad, really-- had a bit of disorientation when i thought i'd only slept till midnight and it was actually closer to 4. Aliens! actually, it was 'Research and Teaching Diverse Library User Groups'-- the cure for insomnia, god help me.
Found $5 in the parking lot yesterday, so i said thank you to whichever goddess is in charge of these sort of things and went and bought $20 worth of groceries. i don't know how *that* logic works, but i've been hankering for real food for a while now. mind you, i'm the woman who stopped being a vegetarian for baloney sandwiches, so take the real food thing with a grain of salt.
but i'd been sick of takeout, and wanted to eat something that actually has vitamins and fiber in it, so i made strawberries and whipped cream for dinner and tuna salad for dessert. i love being a grownup, even though my stomach is going Hey! that's real food, goddammit! and is getting revenge.
i've been having some good days lately-- my stresslevel baseline is at a higher setting than it should be because of this paper i need to do in a couple of weeks and esol paperwork to turn in after that. ok, so i should also study for my lab certification exam, but i can't even tell you how low it is on the priority totem pole right now. but other than that, ship-shape.
I'm having visions of me all done with this paper and the heart being light as i sit guilt free on a lounge chair by the post swimming pool. I've just taken a long refreshing swim on a bright clear day, not too hot, and i'm sitting under an umbrella (no tans, please) and writing bits and pieces of stories that i can work on in more depth when i get home. it's just such a nice vision, and if i think about it hard enough, i know it'll be reality. that, and i really miss going swimming. I *love* swimming-- it's just such a hedonistic thing to roll around and have all this water all over you. it feels wonderful.
i signed up for a Russian language class yesterday at the community college (noncredit) before i could change my mind. it was 89 bucks, but my finances aren't too bad, and it was worth it even though i've taken Russian in the past.
I need it for a lot of reasons. the biggest one is that i'll be moving in a few months to a region with a lot of Russian speakers and i want to at least have the passing familiarity with the language. i mean, there's no way i can keep up with a native speaker at the rate of normal speech even at my most fluent, but i used to be able to pick out enough action verbs to figure out what was going on and i want to sorta have that again.
the other reason is that teaching English to other people, sometimes you forget how hard it is for people to make the jump into speaking a foreign language to someone else, how embarrassed you were when you couldn't think of the right word to say or when you mispronounced it. it's easy for me to stand in front of the class and encourage them, but it's been a long time since the roles were reversed, and it's high time i did it. and the time is right-- i only have to teach twice a week, and two years into this i have enough lesson plans under my belt to guide me so i don't have to bust tail quite so hard.
and I read Vali's Buffy in the Monty Python universe this morning-- LOL!
"GILES (with charming semi-stammer): Er, uh, it, er, sorry, we're closing so I can go shag Eth--er, we're closing for lunch."
*YEAH*!! I loved it. Ok, so i don't have nearly the zeal that my girl has for the older set-- my tastes run more towards Fred and George Weasley, may i burn in eternal hellfire-- but *Giles*, every luscious inch. damn. Are they repeating the finale so i can see him being bad?
Thought of Beth yesterday, in the interview, probably nervous as hell even as she's kicking ass. i hope it all turned out well. aw, heck, i'm sure it did.
one more thing before i go to work: James Jeffords? I've never heard of you before today, but i love you so much i can *barely* contain my glee. I can't wait to spread the good news amongst my fellow conservative co-workers. Uh-oh, *so* sorry! AHAHAHAAAA!
Found $5 in the parking lot yesterday, so i said thank you to whichever goddess is in charge of these sort of things and went and bought $20 worth of groceries. i don't know how *that* logic works, but i've been hankering for real food for a while now. mind you, i'm the woman who stopped being a vegetarian for baloney sandwiches, so take the real food thing with a grain of salt.
but i'd been sick of takeout, and wanted to eat something that actually has vitamins and fiber in it, so i made strawberries and whipped cream for dinner and tuna salad for dessert. i love being a grownup, even though my stomach is going Hey! that's real food, goddammit! and is getting revenge.
i've been having some good days lately-- my stresslevel baseline is at a higher setting than it should be because of this paper i need to do in a couple of weeks and esol paperwork to turn in after that. ok, so i should also study for my lab certification exam, but i can't even tell you how low it is on the priority totem pole right now. but other than that, ship-shape.
I'm having visions of me all done with this paper and the heart being light as i sit guilt free on a lounge chair by the post swimming pool. I've just taken a long refreshing swim on a bright clear day, not too hot, and i'm sitting under an umbrella (no tans, please) and writing bits and pieces of stories that i can work on in more depth when i get home. it's just such a nice vision, and if i think about it hard enough, i know it'll be reality. that, and i really miss going swimming. I *love* swimming-- it's just such a hedonistic thing to roll around and have all this water all over you. it feels wonderful.
i signed up for a Russian language class yesterday at the community college (noncredit) before i could change my mind. it was 89 bucks, but my finances aren't too bad, and it was worth it even though i've taken Russian in the past.
I need it for a lot of reasons. the biggest one is that i'll be moving in a few months to a region with a lot of Russian speakers and i want to at least have the passing familiarity with the language. i mean, there's no way i can keep up with a native speaker at the rate of normal speech even at my most fluent, but i used to be able to pick out enough action verbs to figure out what was going on and i want to sorta have that again.
the other reason is that teaching English to other people, sometimes you forget how hard it is for people to make the jump into speaking a foreign language to someone else, how embarrassed you were when you couldn't think of the right word to say or when you mispronounced it. it's easy for me to stand in front of the class and encourage them, but it's been a long time since the roles were reversed, and it's high time i did it. and the time is right-- i only have to teach twice a week, and two years into this i have enough lesson plans under my belt to guide me so i don't have to bust tail quite so hard.
and I read Vali's Buffy in the Monty Python universe this morning-- LOL!
"GILES (with charming semi-stammer): Er, uh, it, er, sorry, we're closing so I can go shag Eth--er, we're closing for lunch."
*YEAH*!! I loved it. Ok, so i don't have nearly the zeal that my girl has for the older set-- my tastes run more towards Fred and George Weasley, may i burn in eternal hellfire-- but *Giles*, every luscious inch. damn. Are they repeating the finale so i can see him being bad?
Thought of Beth yesterday, in the interview, probably nervous as hell even as she's kicking ass. i hope it all turned out well. aw, heck, i'm sure it did.
one more thing before i go to work: James Jeffords? I've never heard of you before today, but i love you so much i can *barely* contain my glee. I can't wait to spread the good news amongst my fellow conservative co-workers. Uh-oh, *so* sorry! AHAHAHAAAA!
