we went out last night and wound up chatting til 4 am with a professor of punk literature from england who teaches at ku. it started to rain and he and his friend offered us seats at their covered booth at the replay. i sometimes lose faith in people, lose faith that there are people [...]
Archive for December, 2006
happy accidents
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
a merry christmas to all
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
i grew up with tons of family around at christmas time. my nanny and grandad live in salina and so do their kids, so christmas could get big and crazy. we would have dinners with polish sausage, relish trays, and far too many sweets to count, one year brandond got a tee-pee andwe put all [...]
kansas city secret santa
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
there is a man in kc who has given away 1.3 million dollars over the last 26 years to people who were broke or needy. the story is on tv now and has been in a number of papers. he has given money in kc, in nyc after 9/11, in florida, mississippi and [...]
about time
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »
we hung out with b and e last night and thank god for them. even when we are all busy and can’t spend time together for months, when we finally do get together it is a louises/pizza ordering/board game playing/boozey mcboozerton/reality bites watching good time.
doctor’s appointment today: let’s hope it’s all good in the hood.
here’s [...]
vacation shannon
Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2006 | 2 Comments »
this picture is from our honeymoon in las vegas in may/june. while we were there alex commented on how much he liked “vacation shannon,” the version of myself i become when i don’t have things to worry about like money, schedules, assignments, deadlines, my weight, etc. this “vacation shannon” was more fun and more alive [...]
better day
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2006 | 1 Comment »
interview day on campus went well, it really made me feel confident in my abilities and the opportunities available to me. last day of classes, just 2 hours to teach tomorrow and finals and YEAH!!! end of semester is in sight.
a bad day & the cycle of sixes
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
yesterday i lost one of the diamond earrings alex got me for my 30th birthday. i had had a bad day (student rough drafts weren’t just sandpaper rough they were cut-your-foot- open-like-broken-glass rough), a misunderstanding with a teacher i have total respect for and turning in a 65 page project that evidently i misread the [...]
breathe
