Recent Entries

• going sane

  February 16, 2012

    I would like to report to the world that my Bachelor's Degree (as in, the piece of paper proclaiming that I have one) is finally in a nice frame and hanging on my wall. I'm not sure why this means so much. Maybe because I had carefully pressed this (like a wildflower brought back to&h...

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• clear floors

  July 18, 2011

  In spite of the fact that I have stayed up till 2 am (and sometimes as late as 3) almost every single night for the last three weeks, I am forcing myself to combine basic chores with the lesson-planning that is nagging me. I am having a weird summer.  I know it will look much…

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• snow of the wee sma’s

  November 24, 2010

  It's 2:40 am.  I only noticed 10 minutes ago that the promised snowfall had finally come.  I paused in my obsessive, list-driven cleaning, to admire the motes of water crystals appearing and disappearing as they fell into and out of the streetlight's path. My week of insanely late night...

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• oof

  November 17, 2010

  Just needed to say: I have triumphed.  For the first time since I moved into this apartment over 2 years ago, I have gone through each and every box in my closet and discarded/put away everything I moved here with.  Can't believe I packed and moved and stored so much stuff, much of...

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• Reboot

  November 15, 2010

  A lot has already happened since my last entry.  :D Tonight I am staying up however long it takes to ensure that I'll feel halfway sane when I wake up tomorrow (er, today). I have been putting things off, every night crawling into bed after getting the minimum amount of stuff done to ma...

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• taking off unnecessary labels, one at a time …

  October 29, 2010

  Today's quest? Brazenly walk into a diamond/jewelry store and try not to look out of place. I had this weird whim to do this because it dawned on me that these kinds of stores are completely out of my frame of reference.  Maybe this realization had something to do with someone giving me two ...

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• random Mr. Star sighting, and a mortifying situati

  October 29, 2010

  Oof. After Vespers, Father asked if I would like to stand in for Matushka at a fundraising banquet they'd been invited to.  I had actually considered going to this banquet myself, so this clinched it.  The man who invited us?  The father of the earring-giver.  Oh dear.  I...

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• Emma, tea, and possible cupcakes.

  October 27, 2010

  And revisiting OD. It sure has been a long time ... again.  :D This week, something sort of clicked inside myself and I realized: I am about to get very ill.  I am about to have a breakdown of some sort, if I don't acknowledge that part of my paradigm sucks.  The physical...

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• I wrote this on Valentine’s and meant to post it

  March 22, 2010

  Today happens to be Forgiveness Sunday in the Orthodox church calendar.  I have overused the joke about how perfect it was that Forgiveness Sunday coincided with Valentine's Day.  Assured forgiveness for couples who had forgotten to give each other gifts! This is the third Forgiveness S...

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