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Defensive lying
This was another non-Christmas for me. That’s okay because it was, as usual, completely my choice. Alright. You might be thinking, Christmas alone, not celebrating the day, damn girl, that’s jus...
Feel it still
Chasing attendance, exam style. Everyone should have shown up, all on time, all ready. but they don’t. So there I am, running around from classroom to classroom, double checking that the stude...
An entry that starts bad but gets better
I am finding myself in a strange state tonight, working hard to maintain a façade of calm, attempting to exercise the ability to ignore the things that are truly unnerving me. The numbers, oh hea...
Having a good time
Dripping rainwater, I’ve just returned from outside. I waited too late to start, but I actually prefer working in the cooling rain to the unbearable heat. There were the huge rolling garbage bins...
No rest
Saturday morning - It’s just past eleven and I am finishing a break. I have been a relatively good, relatively old girl this morning. I slept in, again relatively. Instead of getting up at five t...
At least I'm bringing pizza
Okay, Nathe and I haven’t really been talking for a few months now, which has been a bit of an emotional vacation, but, since I was never really mad at him about his last bizarre blow-up, I made...
About Harvey
I haven’t mentioned Harvey even though I’ve been glued to the screen watching. I don’t know what to say. Absolutely terrible. I feel so awful for everyone affected. I am beyond empathy. Beaumont...
A question
Because I am both a technidiot and cheap, I am unable to post pics anymore. (And I have need to illustrate some of my more serious craziness.) I used to be able to get pics into my entries by usi...
Oh boy
Did I mention that the retreat was an overnight thing? Seriously, overnight adult retreat house trapped indoor camping with people most of whom I actively do not love, many of whom give me unwa...
Putting it together
I’m not saying the pressure was on, but everyone in the group was looking at me, without a clue how I was going to pull this one together. It was one of those lovely soul-searching team building ...
My mind's not right
Polluted. Simply polluted. I am not in control of my mind’s autocorrect. I watch, well actually listen, to too much television. I need the background noise. I always have. A child of the sixties ...
It's not always a choice
Donnal had just mentioned she was having guests over and had spent part of the morning cleaning. I had replied, equal parts honest admiration and resigned envy, that she was a better woman than...
Rainy days
Okay, it’s supposedly a bit more than rain. It’s Tropical Depression Cindy and, while New Orleans is not in the direct path of the storm, it is in the dump path. The storm is (most probably) goi...
Sending out an s.o.s
Yesterday everyone at work got a bulk email from our colleague Willie. “Greetings, Hope this email finds you well. I made a trip to Manila. Philippines Unfortunately, the chip on my card was conf...
Dogged doggerel
Waging odious battle against the never-dying green, I look up from the fence I am deforesting from the all-devouring viney weeds that simply will not die, no matter how much ethically wrong “w...
Sounds of Saturday morning
It is a surprisingly unquiet morning here in the House of Eternal Entropy. I sit at the keyboard typing away as the tablet plays this morning’s stream of gathered news and blog clips. - Why do I ...
Greetings from the darkside
Monday morning - 7 (freaking) a.m. I greet people in the morning - a mumbled greeting, the odd polite inquiry - because it’s what you do when you see colleagues in the hallways. I do it becaus...
Sparks that die ignoble deaths
I live an ADHD life, completely undiagnosed but undeniably evident. I never seem to finish anything. I am torn between two modes of thought: - Absolute dismay at my inability of complete anything...
Conversation with my cat
She looks up at me, her amber eyes full of offense. “Why do you keep throwing things on top of me while I’m trying to sleep?” “Lucy, love, with all the soft and comfy spots around the house to ...
Oh freaking lovely
What I knew: My next door neighbor is a druggie. By himself he’s pretty much harmless, rather pathetic in fact. It’s his friends that began to worry me. They come and go at all hours of the da...
Paroxysms of predatory joy
Three nights ago I woke up in he middle of the night shivering. Seems a hard cold front had snuck in fast while I was sleeping and dropped the outside temperature from a lovely 65 degrees down ...
The tenth day
So I had a week off of work and I squandered it, just royally squandered it. I didn’t go in to work a few times when the place was empty to catch up on the overwork I can’t get done during normal...
First things
I’ve been here before. One of the (admittedly few) nice things about my job is the school calendar. I cannot complain about the time off. Especially today. Smile. Especially today. I’m on day t...
New rule
Hey, I don’t want to get graphic, as telling the tale of what just occurred would require. Suffice it to say, there’s a new rule in my office. Anything that goes in your nose, stays in your nose.
Side effects
It is a good thing that the young have no idea about growing older. It would scare the living shit out of them. Like many aging souls, I take a cornucopia of prescribed chemicals on a regular ba...
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