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I'm a twentysomething MFA grad enjoying life in a state of flux, dreaming of Paris and San Francisco while loving the warm summer evenings in North Carolina. I'm a little irreverent, a little mercurial, with an uncanny knack for putting my foot in my mouth.
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Sweetness
When I arrived at my office yesterday (feeling rather icky after not sleeping well), I found a lovely card and a DIY stand-up kitty from my friend Allison. Could she be any sweeter? Now the office finally has its first decoration. I promised my office-mate David I wouldn’t bring in anything girly…I guess a stand-up [...]
From the Archives: Flux
Last year, after I came back from Congo I felt weightless and changeable, and this year I’ve been thinking about that time, and times like it. When we moved to North Carolina. Just like that. Packed everything up and left, just me and Jesse and our cat and our mismatched stuff. The feeling of leaving [...]
Posted in Musing Also tagged Congo, Florida, Home, just thinking, North Carolina, nostalgia, pensive, the cats 1 Comment
Year of Significance
On Sunday, I turned twenty-seven. Jesse calls twenty-seven “the year of significance” because seems like in movies something big always happens to the main character in his or her twenty-seventh year. Friday night, Jesse and I ate stir fry and then walked around the outdoor mall where all the rich people shop. I had birthday [...]
Present
I remember taking a class at Brevard Community College called Student Success Skills. I was fifteen and dual-enrolled. Success Skills was all about order, methodology, preparation—and I loved it. I organized all my binders and threw myself into finding ways to muscle productivity out of the most mundane activities. Standing in line somewhere? Pull out [...]
Yard Work
Because I am trying to be a Person Who Exercises, I started keeping track of something physical I’ve done each day. Last week looks like this: Monday: Tennis Tuesday: er… Wednesday: Push A. in stroller around the block Thursday: Mow back yard Friday: Gardening Saturday: Gardening Sunday: Gardening Monday: Gardening (Yesterday, in case you were [...]
Songs and Waffles and Charlotte, Oh My!
We got home last night at half past midnight, exhausted, and fell asleep as soon as the cats were fed and our teeth were brushed. Let’s back up. The past few days have been a whirlwind—fun, nearly every moment of them, but packed. Thursday, I got up early to clean the house, wash linens, make [...]
Posted in Various and Sundry Also tagged busy!, Food, good day, hair, North Carolina, saving money, shopping, the cats 2 Comments
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