A mountain range has sprung up in my house. Mountains of laundry, mountains of books, mountains of homework, mountains of…I don’t even know what. I’m going to have to start naming piles soon.
Archive for March, 2009
Orogeny
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mountains on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why I Love School – A Short Conversation
Posted in School, tagged Onion Rot, Parasitology, School on 28 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Classmate: Oh, yuck. We’re all eating pork.
Me: It’s not Friday, isn’t pork ok for you?
Classmate: Ever since parasitology I’ve been kind of off pork.
Me: Breakfast pork doesn’t count. Let’s talk about bacteria instead.
Classmate: I am an onion. What kind of Burkholderia should I be afraid of?
Overheard – At the Secondhand Store
Posted in Overheard, tagged Cowboy astronauts, Eavesdropping, Overheard on 25 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Skater Boy One: What do you do when someone you don’t really want to talk to comes up and tries to start a conversation? I mean, I don’t really want to hear about how great their lives are when mine is so…not. I want to tell them I live in a dumpster and walk away.
Skater [...]
Overheard – Ladies who Lunch
Posted in Overheard, tagged Eavesdropping, Overheard on 25 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Luncheoning Lady: You don’t know anybody in Milwaukee who makes teddy bears out of fur coats do you?
Luncheon Companion: (pause) (longer pause) No.
The Monkey Was Vivacious (and other road trip discoveries)
Posted in Road Trip, Small Moments, tagged Breakfast, monkeys, Road Trip, Signs on 15 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My travelling partner set the record straight on the monkey poem. While there was a poem written by a foreign student involving the diapered stuffed monkey, the ballerina poem was actually written by another girl several years before. It begins, “A vivacious monkey said to me, will you be my ballerina?”
Other observations from our trip:
There [...]
Sock Wars Continued
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The socks are winning. I am transferring command to General Dearma. A copy of her orders will be posted soon for your general amusement.
I leave tomorrow for a whirlwind, Spring Breakish trip out east. Every time I tell someone I’m feeling Spring Breakish strange suggestions pop up so let me clarify: Spring Breakish is [...]
Random Observations
Posted in School, Thankfulness, tagged Thankfulness on 11 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. Having more than one set of kitchen tongs is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Strange, but true.
2. Starting at 2 PM tomorrow, I am on Spring Break.
3. Sometimes, exams are really awful.
4. On those awful exam days, it is really exciting to find gluten-free beer in the back [...]
A Note From the Author
Posted in Books, Small Moments, reading, tagged Books, Chickens, Parenting, reading, Small Moments on 10 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pablo and Baby A. are snuggled in the big blue armchair reading a book about chickens. Chicken books are the favorite birthday present of the day. Good thing too because she received a fair number of them this past week. Her auntie keeps chickens. Baby A. has held tiny chicks in two cupped hands and [...]
Smiles Aplenty
Posted in Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Thankfulness on 9 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amongst my favorite things:
mail in the mailbox
text messages involving friends and dinner
sour candies
happy math
laughing so hard my cheeks hurt
phone calls from far away
A good day.
Saying Goodbye to Geranium Station
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Goodbye, Growing, Moving, Small Moments on 8 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have lived here at Geranium Station longer than any other house but one. Nearly six years here, nine and a half on Burr Court and twenty other addresses over the remaining sixteen years. That this house feels more like home than any other is not surprising.
I arrived here not knowing what to expect. Pablo [...]
