August 2005 Archives

it isn't often that i have gruelling work schedules or horrible days at work.  but i think this semester, i will either lose so much weight from the amount of work i feel i am doing, or i will crack under the pressure.  it doesn't seem to end.

so this evening, after a day of teaching, conversation table, film series... we are in the middle of making a pound cake.  i LOVE pound cake.  you know that feeling you get when you eat chocolate.  or that feeling when someone surprises you with flowers.  or that feeling after a great orgasm.  yes.  that feeling is how i feel when there is pound cake in the oven.  that's the one.  the one i love.

i am not saying that pound cake is better than those things.  i'd take chocolate over pound cake any day.  what i am saying is that i would pause to consider the pound cake, when on most other things, i would just grab the chocolate, eat it ravenously and grunt.  mmm chocolate... mmmm.... good.

not complaining about the rain.  not complaining at all, even though my feet are still pink (wore red socks) from the downpour i experienced on friday on my trek into work.  or the fact that i am now wearing damp jeans from the downpour i just experienced driving to pick my dear husband up.

i cannot imagine life where hurricanes are coming right now, where the downpour of my pink feet is nothing in comparison to what could happen to people, their homes, their family photos, memories, etc.  in the grand scheme of things, kentucky does not experience a lot of horrible weather tragedies.  sure, there are tornadoes.  and floods.  but the hurricanes that come to stay and check out what you made last night for dinner, and ooh, let me smash your house, and soak your clothes and bedding... that we don't have. 

people who live with this amaze me.  i would bail and live elsewhere.  i don't have it in me to rebuild.  the reestablish.  so i see these people on tv trying to get to shelter, trying to leave town, and my heart goes out to them.  it really does.  hopefully the worst they have to suffer is pink feet from wearing red socks.

(ps, the photo is of thomas as i made him hold the umbrella over me so i could take photos atop notre dame on a rainy rainy day... all princess, all the time)

so t and i used to have a different blog.  domain name having expired, and our lives completely different these days, i have decided to use our typepad account to create a blog.

i am hoping this will fill the gap of bloggin that i seem to be feeling lately.  it hasn't been bad, but with his new job and my semester from hell, i feel this may be my only source of sanity.  my word purge if you will.

i may actually add photos, since we do own a camera.  hopefully, everyone will move from when the stars go blue to here and not complain too much.  t may even guest blog here and there.  not sure he feels like a princess, but doesn't everyone want to be?