for me to work this week. thank god! i am home this week, and honestly, i have so much to do, i don't know what i would do if i were working. my oci packets are due on friday, i have to choose which social justice project i want to work on for my teaching adventure this fall, i have to finish putting together electronic versions of articles for the curriculum i'm assisting with (which includes in a couple of instances editing a scanned-in text -- which is absolutely horrendous), and then i have to do the global editing/formatting for a potentially 400 page curriculum in time for it to be sent to the copier - i need to finish by friday.

because Thing One and Thing Two come home on saturday! and we have a wedding shower to go to in Connecticut on Sunday. so i'm trying to work on getting the house in tip-top shape so that we can then have fun in the sun for 2 weeks, rather than icky work and housekeeping (which i suck at - completely and totally SUCK at). my Beloved and i did major work on saturday, though. we rearranged furniture and put up some photo shelves. we then spent some time putting a bunch of pictures of kids and cats (and one token photo of each of us) in frames, and arranging them beautifully upon the shelves. the place looks cozier. yes, it is taking us forever to make the place "done" - we got here exactly a year ago, and we still have blank walls, and we still wonder what kind of curtains we want. we are planning on painting, too.

we probably have another 3 years in this place, so it isn't all in vain. we were thinking of upgrading ASAP post-graduation, but our lease is not month-to-month, and must end on some August 1st. i don't want to be dealing with the stress of moving and apartment hunting while dealing with the stress of bar-exam-taking, so we will probably stay for a year after graduation. the only real rush is that the girls share a room right now, and Thing One will be entering those middle school years around graduation time, and they will be ready for their own space. they'll get it. i'm sure.

i had a horrendous dream last night that thing one was missing. amber alert and everything in the middle of the country where she is temporarily residing. in my dream, her father did not tell me this, and i just so happened to come across it on the internet while me and some people at work (what work? i don't work!) were looking something else up. i am very grateful that i can say that i have only ever been THAT upset in my dreams.

i did just now, at noon, finish watching the last episode of Six Feet Under, Season Two. i cried. quite a few times. i can't wait to watch Season Three. i will now go return that to the library, and then wander to Whole Foods to purchase some fresh fish for tonight's dinner, and then come home and hunker down into the work.

posted by Zuska @ 11:51 AM

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