after a while..3bt

strawberry rhubarb pie

my new hair-cut

hearing about exciting opportunities for friends.

the letter of the day is 'A'.

i realize this may seem like bragging (because it partly is)
but mostly, this is relief..
it was not the easiest term.
course i only had two,
and the last one was understandably challenging.
just the same...
deep breath out.

--critical approach to literature A

--popular culture A

--human development A

Tonight's Two Beautiful Things

my wife normally calls out triads of beautiful things, marking our life off in moments of joy. occasionally you have seen a three disturbing things come from me.

tonight i would like to present two beautiful things:

Leslie and Natalya bobbing around the kitchen as Alison Krauss and Union Station play on the stand in for the Victrola. suddenly the song changes to a little more up-tempo and they can hold it in no longer. off they shoot into the living room dancing a sorta two-step with a hint of lindy-hop thrown in to boot! giggling, wiggling and absolutely beautiful. the two most beautiful things i know.

3 (b)eautiful, 1 (b)izarre

how bizarre! i am looking out the window and there is a parade of people coming down the side-street. toward the front there were four men carrying something. my first thought was, "pallbearers?" then i saw a big wooden cross. i guess it being good friday and all...and then the fact that there's a catholic school/church across the aforementioned side street from us.

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--grocery shopping and not looking at the time,
until i call sean near the end of my weaving through aisles.
it was lovely not watching the clock and strolling through a quiet store.

--sean announcing that we have a garden plot
[which i felt we might get, especially after that e-mail complaint he sent them]
both natalya and he have this dreamy look in their eye when they talk about gardening.

--reading nate's "Space Monkeys" short story.
then asking how it went when she read her work to the class,
she said, "good...they liked it...it inspired two people."
one is going to write about space monkeys on jupiter aka jupiter monkeys;
another is going to space hamsters (or something like that).

a blue sky day

--waking up this morning and realizing i don't have to go to school today; a nice reward any day, but most especially after getting up unusually early yesterday.

--after turning in my final exam in Crit Lit (a test of which i seriously choked on), the teacher hands back the final paper she graded (a paper of which i did not edit and stayed up until the wee hours finishing). i was .5 away from perfection, but it wasn't because i didn't get the 'interpretive logic' on the page this time (...sigh..it was little grammatical glitches).

--watching Return to Me last night with Sean (love this movie)... we arrive at the end when Bob (david duchovny) follows Grace (minnie driver) to Italy and they reunite---sigh. sean looks over at me and says (in all seriousness), "i would follow you to Italy." i smile, of course. and then he says, "well, maybe not to rome." if i were running off to florence....