Monday, October 11, 2010

Have I Mentioned...?

 I love Fall.


I love cooler nights when you can keep the windows open and sleep snuggled under a blanket.
I love pulling out light sweaters and my brown trench coat.
Wearing darker, richer colors, though apparently I tend to do that in every season anyway.
Warm drinks.
I love walking through the fallen, crunchy leaves... It is one of the big things I really missed about Wisconsin when I was living in Colorado. Fall. Leaves. I was recently walking with a four-year-old and I told him I loved crunching through the leaves, kicking them around a little as I walked. I guess he'd never considered this and asked me "Why??" I told him I loved the sound and they way the looked and that it was actually pretty fun. He seemed satisfied with my answer and immediately went on telling me he really did have a SpongeBob Square Pants taco for breakfast. Hmm.

Mostly, I love looking up and seeing this. 



Sunday, October 10, 2010

Just a Sunday Afternoon on the Porch


This little guy ... or gal... was hanging out on my porch! Lucky for me I managed to snag a couple shots with my cell phone! And my camera! He was hanging out for almost 10 minutes, I think.

Enjoying the view? Comfortable? Sick? Rabid???



Wait, napping?! (click to enlarge) Wow.

I guess for this little guy, the porch was a good spot to take a Sunday nap.

Or he really is diseased and disoriented. Great.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

I'm Not Really Back Yet...

But... I just thought I'd post a few lines. I've been studying like crazy. I'm sick of having my licensing exam hanging over my head and just want it done. So I've been spending most of my free time studying and answering practice questions. Seriously, it's like an obsession. I just want it over.

Which is why I'm on blogging hiatus. I just can't juggle everything right now. 

In other news, I talked to The Crush today. I had to consult with him, so it was absolutely work-related. And yet, I still nearly puked at the thought of calling him. I was practically hyperventilating. Yes, it's bad. It's like I'm 15 again. Except... worse. I don't actually react this way to all people... or even all men. It seems to be just him. I'd say I was getting close to putting him in the back of my mind since I haven't seen or spoken to him for a month, but ... I keep coming into contact with his students, or randomly hearing stories about him from someone I barely know. Seriously- I was at a going-away reception for a colleague last week and this guy starts telling a group of us a story about a weird phone call he got and the story ends up being about TC. It was kinda funny (again, good to know TC has a sense of humor). But weird. 

Anyway, back to today. I did manage to leave TC a mostly-succinct voicemail (instead of the rambling ones that end up getting cut off because I take too long) and eventually he called back. It was a decent conversation and I even managed to use my social skills. We agreed to touch base again soon.

With my luck, he'll just stop by my office to chat when I least expect him. And I'll be bent over or doing something equally ridiculous.

Lord help me.



Have a good weekend! I hope to be back with a post or two next week. No promises though. :)

Friday, October 1, 2010

Hiatus

hi.a.tus

[hahy-ey- tuhs]
-noun, plural- tuses, -tus.

1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.


Be back soon...
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Revised Influential Books List

1. And the Band Played On- Randy Shilts
2. Listening to Prozac- Peter D. Kramer
3. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism- Temple Grandin
4. Nickel and Dimed-Barbara Ehrenreich Eh, it was OK. Reminded me a little of Dirty Jobs.
5. Into Thin Air- Jon Krakauer
6. The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
7. Middlesex- Jeffery Eugenides Read it. Loved it. Recommend it.
8. A Perfect Spy- John le Carre
9. What is the What- Dave Eggers LOVE this book! Very inspiring!
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami Done.
11. The Known World- Edward P. Jones
12. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- J.K. Rowling Read it twice!!
13. The Bonfire of the Vanities- Tom Wolfe Hmm, the jury is still out on this one (pun intended).
14. Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
15. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera
16. Beloved- Toni Morrison - Abandoned.
17. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
18. Freakonomics- Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner A really interesting & thought-provoking read!