Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Nerdiness
As I post this, I’m in the midst of a sibby night with Marissa. We’re both on laptops and watching William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. We’re such nerds. Today was just a busy day at work. I should have gone to the store but I didn’t. I should have done a lot of things, but I didn’t. Oh well.
This is Marissa's cat impression.
Today was ho-hum. My dad and Cathy came up, and so Marissa, Johnny, and I met up with them at the mall for lunch and shopping. I had to skip out early though because I wasn’t feeling so well. I didn’t get a lot of sleep the night before because I had really vivid nightmares and couldn’t get back to sleep. So I pretty much lied around the house.
But for today’s picture…I recently bought a bulletin board for home. I haven’t put it up yet, but once I do, I’m going to use it to sketch out my novel a little bit better. I’m really looking forward to that. Until then, all these little pins represent ideas.
So many ideas.
Today I watched TK’s funeral and balled, of course. I also went to see Inglorious Basterds with some folks, which was pretty fun. Very interesting movie that led to lots of interesting debate. I didn’t get an interesting picture of any of that, but instead took one of a box I got in the mail a few days ago. I ordered some knitting supplies through KnitPicks for making socks, including these sock blockers. Love them!
There's a ball winder in there too.
Today at work there was an ice cream social at the new Information Commons area in the library. They finally made a fun and technologically advanced space for students within the library, with a nice coffee shop, game station, and technology fitted meeting rooms. It’s a nice space. After checking out the commons, we walked through the rest of the library and I found myself in a familiar space where once upon a time I used to study, and where once upon a time I sat next to the boy of my dreams. But that’s a story for another day. I’ll probably make a page of it for my college scrapbook, and now I have a picture for it.
I'm tempted to go up there and study something, anything, just for pleasure.
I did not take a photograph today because I was simply too sad. I continue to feel incredible grief over the passing of Edward Kennedy. I find relief in the sight of his smile on Inauguration day this past January, that he got to be here for that. And I find myself in complete tears when I see the clips of him giving RFK’s eulogy, and all the eulogies he has given since then for the members of his family that left this Earth before him.
Besides this truly heartbreaking time in seeing such a great man pass, another good man passed as well. A colleague of mine lost his life while in the midst of a medical procedure. Someone that I used to work with quite a bit in the past, and who I took for granted and bitched about for no real good reason besides the fact that he worked in a different department. I’m am saddened by the loss of him as well.
Finally, I am saddened over the death of a bird. Yes, a bird! Yesterday morning, while walking into work with Mike, and heartbroken over Kennedy’s passing, I almost stepped on an old fat bird just sitting on the sidewalk. Stunned, I stopped and looked down. It was alive but seemed very old. As if I wasn’t already sad enough, tears streamed down my face as I worried about it getting squashed by the crowd of students that ride bikes and dashes on that same stretch of sidewalk to get to class. Mike, who also has a sensitive heart for animals, told me that he was going to move the bird over to the lawn. So he went to grab a towel from his office. On his way back out we saw the bird hop over to the lawn. Relieved at the sight, I calmed down and we went over to the UMC to grab a drink and a bagel. Sadly, on the way back from there, we noticed that the bird had died, and was resting on the lawn. I quietly cried, while Mike moved the bird and buried it under a tree and placed a little cross made of twigs on top of it’s grave. The bird was so symbolic of what we experienced yesterday, the circle of life. And while I mourn the loss of these two great men, and an old majestic bird, I am comforted by the news that a friend of mine went into labor tonight to give birth to her daughter.
there is no picture from today, but one I took several weeks ago on campus, that reminds me of heaven.
:-)
the guy in the back omg
I wish.
