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| Time for my weekend update. I am sitting in Sarah's office at the moment, taking advantage of her pc & internet. Apparently there is a huge group of "Charismatic" Catholics meeting somewhere close above me - I don't know whether I ought to be amazed or terrified. It is rainy & cool outside her window - a good Fall day. It is Fall now, btw. - today is the first day. Isn't that weird? I have always thought both of the Equinoxes were on the 21st of the month, but my geography book informs me the Fall version of that event happens on the 23d. I'm not sure I believe it, but at least it's true this year. I was reading some British folk ballads with my seniors this week, so I brot in Simon & Garfunkel's rendition of "Barbriallen", which is a very lovely one indeed, if you have not heard it recently. Now I'm having them write their own ballads; I usually write with them, & I began mine yesterday: I'm calling it "Witney of Wolden" (which phrase I stole from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, of course). Anyhow, I must be away, ere break of soufflet! Pax. | | |
| So life is chaotic. I am installed in my new apartment, where I have no computer & thus no connection w/the outside world. I have been working 10 - 10.5 hours a day at school & taking a maths class at HACC two nights a week. I've been away every weekend for as long as I can remember - all to lovely places like parents' houses &, most amazingly, on vacation to Bethany Beach w/the Adamses. But it is good to finally just be at home on a weekend, to take it slow, get caught up on this & that, & hopefully to see friends 'round these parts. Today I am helping Sarah pack up, so I must be off again. Peace to you! | | |
| My old apartment, camp, the summer, & album work are all winding down.
Winding up are the maths class Sarah & I are taking at HACC, the school year, Fall, my new apartment, & my last year of teaching before I go to grad school (Deo volente).
I have spent today wearing dirty clothes - because I forgot to bring laundry to my parents house this weekend, extracting the rest of my junk from the old apartment, cleaning that location, washing Sarah's dishes, & preparing for classes. Sound dull? For some reason I am elated to be getting so much accomplished.
Vacation with Sarah's family approacheth!! | | |
| One week of camp remains, then a week off, then begins school. I confess I'm a little excited about the new year, a second chance at this teaching busin. But there are heaps of work to be done, & I don't see how it's going to happen. Does that phrase define your life, too?
I went with camp to Hershey's Chocolate World yesterday & thot abt. Ch. & the Ch. F. the entire time. 'Twere a good movie. I love chocolate. Then I went to Hershey Gardens & thot abt. Longwood G.s back in Brandywine, & I wanted to move back thither.
Today, we went swimming in a lake, & afterwards one of the campers told me the names of the boys who had urinated in the water. I waded in that water.
This weekend I shall repair to chez Adams for joy & other pleasantries. | | |
| Today I bought the nicest pair of shoes I've ever owned. Ever. My current shoes are all at least two years old & have served me well; but when I can make my shoe talk to Sarah because the sole flops off, it is time for summat new. The new pair are beautiful brown leather things, which I shall wear to work (school, that is, not camp, Sarah tells me) & to church. They were on sale at the Shoe Department, which was more cause for joy.
I also bought a fan for my new apartment, which I am not yet sleeping in because I'm afraid of being lonely. I will work up the courage sometime this next week, I suppose - sometime after I purchase a futon. I like the word "futon", esp. when saying it with a French accent.
Now I am enjoying some moving air & wondering when I will get to wear my new shoes. Can I get any witnesses to the joy of new shoes? Pax vobiscum! | | |
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