At some point today I wished I had never heard of Angry Birds. That little monster will clearly be my new time sink. In my office now I am working on a freshly delivered one of these and its screen is so much larger than my previous one that I’m still a bit freaked out…. Continue Reading
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Up my block let the summer expire…
I was up and around early enough to catch some of the West Indian Day Parade as it passed by my apartment. It was barely 9:30 and people were already partying with abandon. Admittedly, events have been going on in all the surrounding neighborhoods for the past few days. It’s the last pulse of summer,… Continue Reading
Numbers are hard…
So that big meeting that I’m supposed to make a presentation at? The one that’s scheduled for eight am on the eighth? The one that I stumbled out of bed in a panic to get to? IT’S SCHEDULED FOR EIGHT AM ON THE EIGHTH. Not the seventh, as today happens to be. Tags: daily photo,… Continue Reading
I work down there…
See how that black box is surrounded by plaza, a big, empty plaza? That black box is the entrance to the school where I work, which is situated underneath the empty plaza. And see the white fence keeping the plaza empty? That’s because starting next week the whole plaza is going to be demolished so… Continue Reading
One block away…
I’ve been passing these on the way to work for the last week or so; they’re a block away from my house in someone’s front yard. The school year is wrapping up, and as it does, I’m frightened to realize how much planning I need to start doing for the coming one. Running a program… Continue Reading
Tell me what you think and win a Nayland Blake…
Must be sleeping in weird positions, because for the past two days I’ve woken with tension and stiffness in my neck and shoulder. Either that or I’m getting older. Oh yeah, I’m getting older. I’m sitting at my clear for the fist time in ages kitchen table, smelling the tulips Lolita brought me and trying… Continue Reading
It’s getting late…
It’s difficult to use color with subtlety. So sometimes I just don’t try. Classes, meetings, cooking, walking in rain. I latched on to a chore that I didn’t need to do, but felt compelled to complete. Let’s not call it avoidance. Tags: daily photo, work… Continue Reading
I wear black on the outside, because that’s all I could find in my darkened closet…
Got home last night from day one of applicant interviews for the next academic year, ate the Pad Thai I had brought, placed my nearly dead cell phone on the charger, walked and fed Lehigh, turned on the TV stretched out on my bed when POP! out went the lights, in my apartment and few… Continue Reading
After work is never after work…
Last night’s sky. Supposedly the work day is wrapping up and with it the work week, but that just isn’t the case these days: there’s always another report to be written, or meeting to be had. I don’t have a conventional job, and for that I’m glad: working in education gives me the leeway to… Continue Reading
The dregs…
Another rollercoaster meeting day, and now my fourth cup of coffee for the day is an iced double espresso. Am I being foolish? I did oversleep this morning, tumbling through the sixty degree warmth and the shreds of agreeable dreams. But once I got going it was meet meet meet. Problems on every side, and… Continue Reading