blakspring

Allow me to whine a bit.  I’ve been sick since Monday and it doesn’t seem to be going away.  Normally when I get sick, I just need two days of rest, my honey-lemon-water concoction, some Advil and I’m good as new.  This time it doesn’t seem to be helping.  I’ve been sleeping as much as [...]

Since so many of you two of you were interested in learning more about the girl with the on-again off-again British accent, I thought I’d oblige.  I don’t normally like to write about individual students, and the work weirdos category had been created specifically for crazy patrons at my old job in the public library [...]

Today has been one of my busiest work days yet.  It is the last day of the marking quarter so every kid is trying to write up their last minute paper or finish a take home midterm, and I have essentially become an IT person badly in need of several clones.  The rush finally died [...]

At 11:30 this morning I was writing about how frustrated I was that on this momentous day in 2009 my school was unable to show the inauguration.  Technology is so advanced that we’re probably one step away from embedding video monitors in our forearms but the classrooms in my school don’t have working televisions.  I [...]

When I got home from work on Thursday I discovered that the Internet was not working.  Restarting the modem did not help so I had to wait until my roommate got home since everything is under her name.  She gave them a call and, after being on hold for ages, getting transferred all around, and [...]

Because I’m sick of complaining about my constant state of near-hypothermia, I thought I’d do something completely different and goof around in Photoshop.  Though there is no logical corrolation, putting wacky filters on photos makes me feel like it must be spring or summer.
I love the look of a negative:

and the simplicity of a black [...]

In an attempt to not die of hypothermia, I have acquired yet another hand-me-down jacket from Little Sister.  This one is also a puffy jacket with a furry hood, though in olive green instead of black.  And it is damn cute. My only concern is that it seems thinner than the old jacket, but maybe [...]

I cannot wait for this winter to be over.  I realize that it’s only just started and that so far it’s actually been pretty mild but I just cannot stop freezing.  Normally, I am full of energy and happy-go-lucky but when I’m cold I just want to curl up and cry.  Forget Chinese water torture [...]

I’ve decided to do something different by participating in an online book club.  (Thanks NPW for passing my name along and RA for inviting me.)  Every month there will be two or three books with different contributors leading discussions.  Thankfully I don’t have to take the stage till May which will give me plenty of [...]

So…ummm…I’m not quite sure what happened between Christmas and today.  I’ve been meaning to write but couldn’t seem to find a productive chunk of time.  The week and a half were a whirlwind of activity punctuated by moments of pure idleness; basically, I had a lot of fun:

saw Ana Gasteyer at IKEA; had to stop [...]