Why did no one warn me that real life was going to be so busy and tiring? Ugh.
Since my last blog, I:
- Decorated and undecorated for Christmas.
- Cut my hair. (Not because it's the married-woman-thing-to-do, but because I won a free hair cut from a salon, and because some of my students' parents would walk into the classroom and ask me or the students where the tutor was. I decided that something needed to change.)
- Was a bridesmaid in my maid of honor's wedding, which was beautiful and sweet, just like her.
- Pulled an all-nighter finishing grades at the end of the semester. I had assured myself at graduation that I would never need to lose sleep over reading and papers again. Oops.
- Introduced 40 students to Elizabeth Bishop and William Carlos Williams, not to mention iambs, dactyls, trochees, etc.
- Cooked some mediocre meals not worth mentioning.
- Ate way too much fast food.
- Subbed for six Latin classes in the last two weeks.
- Remembered waaay more Latin than I thought I knew.
- Read The Graveyard Book, re-read Warrior's Apprentice and Cetaganda, read a few Austen-related books, started Good Omens. (This is on top of reading for my classes, which usually amounts to over 1 book/week. This week was Dante's Inferno and Purgatory and various 19-20th century poets; also finishing the last of Robinson Crusoe.)
- Joined a fairy-tale reading/viewing/discussion group.
- Rediscovered "The Loh-Down on Science" with Sandra Tsing Loh. Yay Podcasts.
- Listened to a fair amount of Billy Collins reading his own poetry.
- Started a watercolor, but did not finish it (of course).
- Started taking Magnesium supplements to see if my joints and muscles will feel any better. Is it weird that my knees feel great when I wear heels, but are in lots of pain otherwise?
- Got sick; got better (mostly).
- Discovered Vosges Haut-Chocolat. Goji berries, pink Himalayan salt, and deep 41% milk chocolate? Yes please. Next to try: the Calindia bar (green cardamom, walnuts, dried plums, 65% dark chocolate).
- Hit our sixth-month anniversary. :)
- Wrote a book. It's nine pages long, illustrated, and in Latin, but that still counts, right? Right? Beyond that, other writing amounted to about 3 pages on various fiction projects. Again, no one warned me about that whole life-is-busy thing.
- Addition: Watched seasons 1 and 2 of Arrested Development. Waiting for season 3 from Netflix. Two words: chicken impressions.
