Once again defying my mother's predictions of doom, and dashing my in-law's hopes, I triumph in the preparation of the time-honered dessert, the pumpkin pie. So good as to provoke Matthew to question whether hash had been included without his knowledge, it sits, smug in the knowledge that it will be devoured quickly, along with its companion, the whipped cream, and neither will be left in the back of the fridge to grow moldy long past their time.
The rest of the food was good too. :) The turkey was a little salty, and there was too much food all around, but all in all I'm very proud of myself.
coldcoldcold! Tired and grumpy tonight - well, why should tonight be any different - but the important thing is, it's *just* because I'm tired. No stresses with school, no fights with matthew, no latent dissatisfaction. Just tired.
Who knew what a relief that would be?
In other news, it's REALLY FRICKIN COLD outside. It was fine earlier today, just a nice November briskiness, but then the sun disappeared around four-thirty (which, by the way, I'm tired of) and the temperature plummeted. We were out, and had left a window open. That was a mistake.
Watched the rest of the LoTR extended DVD tonight. :) We haven't gotten to the 'bonus material' yet, but we've liked what we've seen so far, though I've talked Matthew around to my view that it packs a more focused cinematic punch the way they released it. So, yay.
I'm off to grade more papers - or maybe just go to bed. Mmmmsleep. . .
posted by Kecia 11:03 PM
"I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought were slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack."
~Jason Isaacs, aka Lucius Malfoy
posted by Kecia 9:20 PM
Monday, November 18, 2002
I'm unique, just like everyone else . . .
Was avoiding work by looking at random LJs (I'm pathetic, I know.) and came across this line: "What I'd like, what I'd really like, is to have a bunch of my friends come over and have pie and watch a movie. But that would involve having a bunch of friends. Maybe I can have a party with somebody else's friends." It made me smile. :) (Of course, then it made me worry, because what does it imply about my maturity level that I identify with a whiny 16-year old? Don't answer that.)
Right now I'm watching the sun come up in lieu of doing work. I really need to get my sleeping cycle stabilized.
Full of worries today. It's going to be one of those no-eating days, I can already tell, because it's six in the morning and my stomach is already twisted tight with worry.
From the same LJ as before: "I don't know. I've never really paid attention to grades. I think of them as something that just happens, something you can't really control, like the tides."
posted by Kecia 6:14 AM
I'm not that innocent or sweet . . and I just don't see TragicDane!Matthew. She is my favorite, though. :)
So I had the idea tonight that maybe I should use this space to chronicle my trip through grad school. As good and useful and idea as that is, I am spurning it for two reasons: 1) I don't know that I'm going to stick with grad school as it is. It sux.
You know, I don't want to finish this entry. Matthew and I are fighting again for the nth time this week.
posted by Kecia 10:19 PM
Thursday, November 14, 2002
Gah!
So I've just become aware of the forum ghost broohaha over at SQ, and I think that some people need to get a life. Just because you post on a board does not give you a right to be offended if you feel reluctant to post. A&Z could decide that people are only allowed to post about oranges, if they want, and it would be fine. It is their board. Good grief.
For the record, I, too, am reluctant to post there. And it is probably a Good Thing. No one wants to see most things I end up not posting.
I wish I could do something for the good admins of SQ just to let them know how much they are appreciated. Brownies, anyone?
posted by Kecia 6:09 PM
Whoohoo! Percy! (Though we all know he belongs with Penelope.) Really, of the Weasley men, Arthur is the best husband material, but Percy's not far behind. :)
posted by Kecia 8:42 AM
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
*snerk* from www.googlism.com
Lyrelle is a powerful speaker and in addition to aids
is an epidemiologist
is one of our most explosive and dynamic forwards
is certainly no stranger to this campus
is a multi
is not just a studio artist
is director of resource development for the united way of south cameron county
is an avid ohio state football fan
is a homemaker and works part
is a housewife who spends her time raising the kids
is continuing a website project she started in a summer section of educ 490 on world language
is the 1
is an active member of the investment management consultants organization
is this really cool friend i used to hang out with in high school in port mcneill
is simply a beautiful model with a tremendous amount of charm and grace
is a powerful speaker who addresses her own personal issues with sexual abuse
is a member of the seven sisters book club
is on the faculty at uga
is a psychology professor at the university of georgia
is concerned about the source of some of the grain and beans
is 24 inches with a vinyl head
is getting prettier and prettier
is one of them; and because she is honest and open
is only one of two african
is native american
Rain, rain, go away! Cold, dreary day outside. The cherry trees outside the TA office are already stripped bare for the winter. It's blustery, cold, and rainy. Blech. I have a tonne of homework to do, and my kids took an exam today - which means I have a stack of papers to grade. Thirty-six kids, thirteen pages each. Blarg.
On the bright side, I have a bag of Funyans in my lap. And tonight's Buffy night. Except . .. I've finally been hooked on the West Wing. So now my Wednesday nights are completely shot - Enterprise, then West Wing. Stupid hour-long shows. I haven't been watching Buffy as religiously, though (this season annoys me. too much .. . er . . . witchy stuff. don't drag religion into it! it's bad enough i'm watching a show about vampires!), so that's only one night a week. And that's all the television I watch, so that's not that bad, right? The hours I spend abusing DSL, on the other hand . . . .
posted by Kecia 2:16 PM
"Sssoo hungry . . . for ssssoo long . . . ." Go read The Very Secret Diary now. Arabella created it to be read before CoS. Make sure you have the light on.
posted by Kecia 7:50 AM
"Already burning into the night . . . " So, while I've been procrastinating, I've been reading other people's blogs. Strangers, who had a quiz/picture/phrase that caught my eye. And I was struck by the profound nature of many of the posts. Sure, not all of them, and sure, blogging by nature draws the introspective interesting types, but it made me thing about my own blog. I wish it could be pretty, but that's a matter of not knowing how and not caring enough to learn, which doesn't really bother me. On the other hand, it's the fire behind the words, the 'look at me, i have a soul, i exist, i am burning' that my words lack. Why is that?
None of the answers I can come up with console me.
posted by Kecia 7:45 AM
*snerk* this is me, avoiding grading . . . and apparently coming up with pick-up lines to boot . . .
posted by Kecia 9:12 PM
Wheee! change time again! Still looking for a way to make this work more reliably . . . though I think the problem's with my own computer . . .
posted by Kecia 6:50 PM
More from git.talk.haiku:
Georgia tag spotted
Welcome sight so far from home
Wonder whose it is
Night not long ago
Saw a car's GT sticker
Wanted to hug it
