I have a long post in process about some exciting things going on with school (University of Washington.) A portion of that story involves a great conversation with a previous teacher who helped me settle on the other language I’ll focus on this year. As part of requirements at UW, you need to have a […]
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I had two finals today, one in mid morning and the other not until mid afternoon. It was a loooooooong day. I stayed up too late making feeble attempts to study last night and then got up at 5:30am this morning (which still felt like 4:30am to my suprachiasmatic nucleus). Husband was out of town at […]
I used to share lots of music on all my old blogs – a habit I definitely need to get back into. I was enjoying this one earlier today – nothing new, just something I like.
First day of Winter Quarter today – back at it! If there is one thing to ever be known about me, it’s that I go at things full force. “Balls to the wall”, if you will. This means that, comparing all my past experiences with school and today, I either throw my hands up and […]
Hey! So that 3 weeks of Winter Break went by really, really, really quickly. I had a list of things I’d hoped to do over that time but the only thing I really did was “relax” and “fuck all.” We didn’t even do much Christmas stuff until right AFTER Christmas. Oops. We made it out […]
Ah, the Czech carp… blood on the streets every Christmas!
We don’t “do” Santa in our house. I had never really thought much about it, Santa always seemed like a given, but then when our son was a year old I found I couldn’t get myself to start with all the Santa hoopla. It’s not a political statement and it’s not because I’m grinch-y – […]
I am determined to post every single old picture upon this blog at some point! “LOL”, as the kids say. I was thinking about Christmas traditions and new ways to decorate at home – it reminded me of the Czech tradition of decorating Christmas trees with orange slices and cinnamon sticks. (A great idea, I […]
