Around 2:30 pm yesterday, I suddenly stumbled into a period where I couldn’t cope. Where everything converged and I truly felt like I might fall apart. Within half an hour I found out that my great-aunt was in the hospital and that a job application process I’ve been in hit a stumbling block. I couldn’t [...]
I left my computer for two and a half hours this afternoon to go meet with my thesis adviser one last time (got the final edits!) and go to the grocery store. When I returned I discovered that my eBay account had been hacked and it had been used to send out a bunch of [...]
I’m having some people over for dinner tonight. It’s mostly potluck, I’m putting together the main dish. I settled on doing a baked pasta dish. Then I decided to complicate my life a little by doing one bake with turkey sausage and one without. Then I decided to do two completely different sauces instead of [...]
Apartment 2024 is smelling appealingly of cloves and orange oils right at the moment because I took a brief break this morning from the nearly-finished thesis to make a pomander ball. There was something soothingly mindless about making rows with cloves in the skin of an orange that gave me a much-needed break from words, [...]
Last night I crawled into bed, all ready for sleep, with my computer. It was midnight and I was tired, but I needed to do a little more work before I could rest. I worked for about an hour, writing posts for Slashfood and Green Daily before turning my mind to some school work. Just [...]
Right at the moment I’m a little bit tapped out when it comes to writing. I’ve been posting like crazy over on Slashfood and Green Daily this week and working on my thesis to boot (however, the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight). This is one of those nights [...]
My friend Jamie came over for lunch today with her 18-month-old daughter Ivy. They spent the morning at a music class for toddlers and headed over afterwards, wearing complimentary down coats and smelling like cold morning air. I put out an odd assortment of foods for them including smoked turkey and white bean soup, beet [...]
I’ve put this post off until the very last thing and unfortunately I seem to have spent most my mental energy on other writing tonight so there’s nothing but dregs left. I wouldn’t post, except for that pesky NaBloPoMo commitment. So here’s a picture of some yummy-looking fresh lettuces and a promise that tomorrow will [...]
I love the morning after we fall back out of daylight savings time. I love waking naturally and knowing that while my body believes that it’s one time, the rest of the world knows it to be a whole hour earlier. This morning, for the first time in weeks, I woke up without [...]
I have not moved since May of 2002, when I settled into my current apartment (which, if you’ve been following along for awhile will know has been in my family since 1966). During college I moved nearly every six months and always thought that I’d be the sort of person who’d live in several [...]
