January 30, 2013

I like to keep my snow in the mountains.

January 29, 2013

There is nothing that makes everything in your life better faster and more fully than a nap.

January 28, 2013

Wouldn't it be great to have a brat check button right next to the spell check button?

January 27, 2013

Nothing much happens until you can say, "Whatever it takes."

January 26, 2013

I think the world should go back to polymathy as the ideal, embracing Alberti's idea that "a man can do all things if he will"; shouldn't we all aspire to be a Renaissance man/woman?

January 25, 2013

As a teacher, there is always more to be done--which is exhausting and exciting and job security.

January 24, 2013

Freezing rain gives new meaning to the old Irish blessing, "May the road rise up to meet you."

January 23, 2013

Sitting in the balcony while watching a play sounds very romantic and nostalgic, but it turns out it mostly just feels like you've illegally imposed, unwanted--it felt like the time I had an out of body experience and watched my seizing body from the vantage point of the ceiling . . . detached, ignored, inconsequential . . . we were a third-cousin-once-removed type of audience.

January 22, 2013

Today was full of surprises (good, bad, in between): the surprise of an AWESOME lesson plan turning into a bunch of dead time (aka, the bad surprise); the surprise of being in SLC when Mike got off work (chyeah--the good surprise); the surprise of expecting to leave campus at 11:30 a.m. and instead leaving at 4 (in between: less assignments accomplished than I thought but also snuck in a work out).

January 21, 2013

Pity to all those employed people whose employers don't recognize all the government-recognized holidays.

January 20, 2013

"When I think about the Savior, I want to live in such a way that not one more drop of His blood has my name on it."

-Sister Peterson, BYU 7th Stake Relief Society President, 94th Ward conference

January 19, 2013

I love people who see people as people; I love people who are Good.

January 18, 2013

Authenticity above all.

January 17, 2013

The way people drive in parking lots is testament to their need for law.

January 16, 2013

Conversations change things.

January 15, 2013

None of my today's thoughts, but take some of essayist Alexander Smith's: "We argue fiercely about happiness."

January 14, 2013

Because I'm worth it.

January 13, 2013

The soup has a pleasant bite to it when born of angry energy.

January 12, 2013

She said I kill everything I get my fingers on, and already the dove has died, Goldy is flushed, the neighbors took over my dog, Frank left last week, and dammit I just burned the eggs this morning--so no, Jade Plant #37, not you too.

-Exercise

January 11, 2013

Lately, I am often crying in my dreams, and I don't know what that means.

January 10, 2013

I took my chances with the slushy snowed hill, figuring my cowboy boots were hardy enough, but when I somehow slipped and fell, flying upward (I got some serious air--think hidden trampoline) and all I could see were the triangle tips of my boots against the backdrop of the dark snowing sky, in that suspended moment, I knew five things: 1) my boots are no match for The Hill 2) I am in a dress 3) there is one solitary pedestrian walking up The Hill toward me 4) that pedestrian is male and 5) thank heavens I am in black black (with gray polka dots) tights.

January 9, 2013

My friend printed an 8x11 black-and-white of Anthony Doerr, my writing idol, for me to hang at my desk and now I can just slightly shift my gaze from my work computer to the strip of corkboard waiting just behind and catch the piercing of his grayscale eyes and wonder what lies behind them, where his genius stories begin...and wonder about my own.

January 8, 2013

What is it that makes a muscle (say, oh, a glute) twitch repeatedly, in this case very reminiscent of a horse's flanks on a cold autumn morning--making wearing leggings very awkward?

January 7, 2013

First day of a new semester always makes the corners of my smile rush up to squeeze my eyes.

January 6, 2013

Just when you think you're invincible, look closely for the chink in your armor...because it is there, no matter how small, no matter how quiet.

January 5, 2013

After scrutinizing and tweaking my teaching syllabus and schedule for the majority of the day, the upcoming semester is on my mind...the upcoming semester that will be better better better than last semester: I will be taking creative classes and therefore will finally feel like I am doing what I came here to do; I will be not quite as baby-fawn-ish at teaching 150 (meek, stumbly, frightened); I will be not alone (well equipped with 1. the best friend of my life and 2. the boyfriend and relationship that is exciting, enjoyable, filling, and worth it plus 3. I know a few people 'round this ol' place now); I will be interning and learning how to teach a new and awesome course; I will no longer be in my first semester; oh and it's my quarter-century during this round (but I'm not sure if that fact really counts as highly among the rest...).

January 4, 2013

You can always tell how much a person means to you by the amount of leaping in your chest upon reunion.

January 3, 2013

Well, looks like holidays are blog ruiners.