yes, we have been eating

Here are some recent dinner items I've put together. The first, I made tonight. Annie's shells and cheese to which I added yam and spinach puree. (You might not be able to tell, but the pasta has a green tint to it.) The second, I've made a couple of times in the last week or so. It's marinated bean salad with orzo. Yes, I'm a genius! Okay, so really, I made this because the Fearless Flyer gods suggested it. I did add the diced tomato and chopped basil all on my own, though. I have enough of this prepared to get me through the next several days, because that's how I make pasta apparently.

a little slice of wounded Pie

the wind-down

I am about to go upstairs and sit pretty much alone in my classroom for two hours. I guess I'm going to sit there, read children's literature and either listen to music or watch Into the Woods. I didn't bring any of my research with me because I'm already carrying enough stuff around with me and I wasn't exactly planning well this morning. I guess that's what happens when you take a three-hour nap during the day and then stay up all night long. I had slept for almost an hour when Cardo came out to the living room, where I had finally fallen asleep, and let me know that he was leaving for work.

Well, I'm off to begin wrapping up this semester so that I can become a useless lump for several days next week before I jump back in...

a little slice of Pie

the child will not sleep

It's 11:34 at night and Pic is still awake. After Cardo got home from work, we walked to Beach Hut Deli and had dinner and then had ice cream at Coldstone. So...either the sandwich-maker put a little something special in her sandwich or the ice cream-maker put a little something special in her strawberry ice cream with white "chocolate" chips.

Right now, she's in her room, repeating "I can't find my bra-ce-wet." (This is how she pronounces "bracelet".) Then she told Cardo, "Papi, find my bra-ce-wet right now!" He responded, from the hallway, on the other side of the closed door, with "Go. To. Sleep." To which she responded, "I'm happy to see you Papi. Don't be nice to me."

Maybe her cold has gone to her brain.

(I so need to be writing school papers, but this is incomprehensibly hilarious to me right now.)

random rambling

Just a few things today:

I had coffee today...never a good idea, but I just couldn't stop myself, obviously. Now, Pic is resting and I'm daydreaming of resting, fretting over papers due and catching up on blogs.

Pic is sick. :( She started getting sick a few days ago(she started talking in that wonderfully husky voice that's oddly entrancing and I knew we were in trouble). She woke up this morning coughing, sneezing and snotty. She was disappointed that we wouldn't be meeting with our regular Tuesday morning crowd and has been fantasizing about future picnics (or 'picmics' as she calls them) all day. When Cardo finally rolled out of bed this morning, I whined to him, "I'm sick...." His response, "This is not a good week for you to be sick." Yeah, thanks.

I receieved a ULINE catalogue in the mail today. "What's ULINE?" you ask. Well, they're shipping supply specialists. And why wouldn't they send me a catalogue? Just in time for me to order supplies to ship myself off to a very remote place.

I've drawn a somewhat crappy hand from the universe these last few weeks and the end of this semester has been the toughest one I've almost survived. At some point, I'll probably want to just sit in the presence of others and remember what it feels like to be a normal(ish) human, but for a bit, I'm mortaring myself into my familiar solitary space. Please don't take it personally -- it's just a defense mechanism so that I can make it through the next six days and emerge a somewhat sane person.

8 days to go...

Three words to sum up my state-of-mind right now (or they would describe my state-of-mind if I felt I still possessed a mind): End. Of. Semester.

I'm taking a break from my painstakingly-slow writing to address some other stuff...so, on to other things.

I've been tagged! I'm to write six quirky things about me, so I'll quickly jot those down here:

1. I like to paint my fingernails and toenails two shades, alternating the colors (many of you have seen evidence of this).
2. I count stairs (they're 43 from the main quad to Palmer Engineering, 49 from Evans to Morrill Hall, 42 from the lower quad to the Old Ed building...you get the picture).
3. I don't like most of my foods to touch and I like to finish eating one item on my plate before I begin eating another.
4. I catalogue my books and Pic's books (and we both have "From the library of..." stamps).
5. I put my playing cards and crayons away "in order."
6. I read almost all of my school reading aloud (this semester, Pic has been treated to The Faerie Queene, Gerusalemme Liberata, Orlando Furioso and plenty of secondary reading on these works).

Okay, so here are the rules:

The Rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you. [I was tagged by Lori at Serendipity and Rain.]

2. Mention the rules on your blog. [Here they are.]

3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. [See above.]

4. Tag 6 bloggers and link them. [I'll get to the tags when I have the time to figure them all out.]


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In the meantime, I just clicked on the OED's "At a loss for words?" button and the random word I got was "spheral." The first things that came to mind were Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. They are definitely spheral, and freaky as all get-out. I am not a fan of Disney's Alice in Wonderland because it creeps me out and these two characters are a large part of that. (Then, there's always that picture of the long-necked Alice in the book...also creeps me out.)