Corkboard Update

FYI: I had to use rubber cement to make the corkboard stronger; it was becoming a little rickety. And I think it's because hot glue guns suck (as I'm finding out). The glue comes out in lines that cool too quickly, while rubber cement fills the cracks better. If I make another one I'll probably try rubber cement first.

Plus, the hot glue was the culprit for the falling photo, so I haven't had the best year with it.

Everything I do in a week (- like a giant to-do life of life)

My list - in a week I:

Wake up 7 times
Go to sleep 7 times
(Those are both lies of course, because I love to nap - in my not so distance past, before I added a second job, I totally napped all the time. Now I only get to when I'm sick)

Read about 4 books on average for classes
Grade about 40 papers
Plan for three classes
Write at least one paper
Write one decent poem and twenty terrible ones
Start at least one project I don't finish
I'm waiting tables now, so, five long shifts doing that
(You're right, I don't have time to do all these things I say I am doing; understand my life now?)

Feed the piggies - at least 14 times
Change their paper - once
Sit with them at random to groom and love on them

Trim my nails
Paint them occasionally
Other grooming acts at random

Take my recycling up to the hill
Check my mail - six times
Go to the post office - once
Look at things on-line I can't afford - eight times
Grab some groceries - once or twice
Take out the trash - twice
Laundry x's three (at least)
Organize books and desktop clutter - four times

Procrastinate, procrastinate, procrastinate.
Daydream about my trip in May - like 36 times

Drink - maybe once
Eat six bowls of cereal
Eat four bowls of pasta
Drink 21 bottles of water (I refill them, although I hear there are negative to this, too)
Eat ice cream - three times
Shower - ten times
Dry hair - four or five times

Rant about my vacuum cleaner not working -three times
Fret about bills - quite a few times more than I'd like
Dust - once
Think about dust - substantially more times than that

Sing out loud something I don't know the words to - 18 times
Wonder why I even bother texting - like twenty times
Watch a movie on TV I later wish I had not gotten wrapped in to - three times
Try to blog - once or twice
Consider deleting MySpace
Consider deleting Facebook
End up wasting time on Facebook and forgetting I wanted to delete it earlier that day
Hope it doesn't snow - three times
Check my bank account every five minutes to watch it dwindle away...

Hope you're all doing well. I am in the middle of so much right now I can't really blog, but I doubt anyone minds it.

-L

The snow's all gone and I feel great.

I received my new drawer pulls (yay) and sold the old ones on eBay (yay again).

I haven't written much in the way of updates because there hasn't been much to say. I am busy reading books and worrying over them; also, I'll start a second job any day now, so I wish to complete all of my later assignments as soon as possible. While this would be nice, I already have the one job that requires me to bring home work from the office: papers to grade, their reading homework to review, and lessons to plan (no yays follow this).

However, I really love the readings for a young adult literature class I'm taking. I feel like I am getting that second chance to read all the good books I missed out on while watching the Wizard of Oz on repeat. And of course my poetry class is perfectly delightful. I'm going to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, so I'm trying to wrap up any loose ends in the way of work this Sunday and can't say much else without taking up precious daylight hours.

I'll want to get good sleep tonight:

The weather is lovely though, no complaints there. AND, only 14 weeks (and 2 days) until the semester is over and we leave for our trip. 100 days and counting. :-D