easter

decoupage eggs
fancy food
mini skip-bo express
'happy easter' thunderstorms in the middle of the night
2 days til my birthday

i got my first sunburn of the year.

and the garden is close to planted.



and i got a post-dated birthday card.
but i can't open the gift til the big day.
more on this later.

it's hard for me, but i'm trying

so. apparently i'm on this midlake kick and so i've been listening, (um, that's the definition...)
anyway. so just the other day i was thinking that sometimes the music goes all 70s folksy. and then i had that song in my head so i put it on the blog then i saw that the link wasn't working so i went to fix it and i couldn't remember if it was the .net or the myspace so i went to both to choose and on the myspace he was all like "...The sound is something more related to 70’s folk rock but not in a gimmicky way, hopefully."
so that made me feel good.

cause you know when people ask what kind of music you like and you say "i don't know" and they think you don't listen to music?
or like you talk about a band and they don't know it so they ask what kind of music it is or what it sounds like and you have to say "i don't know"?

and then in survey of jazz you just were crap at quotes, but then in the middle of the night, years later, you're listening to christian mcbride at your friends' house and suddenly you're like "oh wait. that was a quote." and it totally was and your life is complete?

not quite that good, but a similar feel.

and then...

i was talking to my professor cause my other cancelled class and i got to go to work late. and i came out and there under the bridge were all the wishes just waiting and i took some.
outside the library there was someone playing guitar and christina offered to put her change in his case.
i walked out and it was warmer outside than inside .
and there was someone playing air guitar on his ipod. (the ipod was the neck.)

baby pictures

they're a little shy.

i feel a little guilty

they give me money to talk about things i love.
they give me money to make friends.
they give me money to eat their food and fresh fruit.
they give me money to sit comfortably and bask in the je ne sais quoi of a home, the one thing my hostel lacks.
they give me money to energize and cheer my day.

i'm starting a garden fund.

for liza

i am happy today because i have a new favorite song.
i am happy today because while i was working i saw my birthday. it was a colloquium for medieval studies.
i am happy today because several books i inventoried were published at duke university, where i was born.
i am happy today because it is thursday and i don't have to teach at the college.
i am happy today because i am happy.