I'm just popping in for a quick post, knowing I won't be able to again for another week. Hope your weekend was lovely! Mine was ok. I had a lot of little chores to get through and felt really tired all weekend, so it wasn't the best weekend ever. But it's probably the last weekend I'll have until Christmas that doesn't involve some kind of grading, so I tried to fit in some relaxation and thankfully there were some wonderful moments. Here are the highlights:
* Found some magical beads at Michael's Crafts; under normal light they're a pale amethyst color, but under fluorescent lights they're robin's egg blue! They make me think of fairies. No specific plans yet, but they're bound for something special.
* Enjoyed the perfect "autumn weather moment" on Sunday. While I love fall's crisp sunshine and apple orchards just as much as anyone, even more I love the introspective melancholy of a wet autumnal Sunday, complete with church bells, the sounds of a distant train and someone chopping wood, yellow leaves sticking to your shoes, and the comfort found in returning to a warm home and making yourself a hot cup of sweet tea just as the rain begins to really pour.
* Dave and I shared some ginger cookies I picked up at the bakery at Kowalski's. Normally I'm underwhelmed by their bakery, but these cookies were amazing! They were the culinary equivalent to my perfect fall day, only smeared with frosting!
* Did some writing...still working on the same chapter as before, feeling frustrated because my descriptive abilities pale in comparison to Joyce Carol Oates and all her annoying, disconcerting talent (On my lunch breaks I've been working my way through her famous short story collection The Wheel of Love).
* Made some progress on the unending, soul-sucking filing project. To make this project less like torture, while sorting my piles I watched the Masterpiece Theater production of Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen (the one with Anne-Marie Duff). Definitely made my task a little less hateful. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/virginqueen/
* Had brunch at Mickey's with a couple friends and had great coversation about books, movies, travel, and teaching! And as much as I wanted to order the buttery decadence of Mickey's bacon omlette, I ordered the chaste and demure oatmeal instead. That makes me pretty awesome.
Hope your weekend had plenty of highlights as well!
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2 comments:
I've only got two comments:
1) "the introspective melancholy of a wet autumnal Sunday" is a perfect turn of phrase to put an image of that exact thing in my head.
2) The first time I had a teacher/professor swear in a class was reading "Heat" by Joyce Carol Oates. His name was Gremmels in a class with the best title ever, "Technique and Form in Drama and Fiction".
I love reading your blog. You have a way with words, to put the reader right there and feeling what you are discribing and feeling.
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