It’s another feeling-late night (though I know it’s only 11) and that means list time:
Tomorrow… I’m going to mostly chill the heck out. And go to a Bollywood movie with the KEs!
Blog, blog, blog.
It’s spring break! I’m not doing a very good job blogging. I got all my papers turned in, and I think all is well. I’m attemping to not think about school, though I had to go to campus today to drop off the graded finals for the class I read for.
Sadly, I’m going to have to go to campus tomorrow too, boo. Though this should be a good trip, I guess, as I’ve got an appointment with a doctor to talk about these heart palpitations, and the notted mess I’ve made my neck. I seriously need to find a way to destress this next quarter, because I spent way too much of this one feeling crap. Plus I’m sure it’s just not good for me, and feeling unwell stresses me out double. Urgh. Anyway, I’m pretty nervous about tomorrow, but I’m hoping that by lunch I’ll be full of relief at finding out that as usual I’m worrying about a mountain when faced with a molehill. Yup. Sigh.
Spent today running errands of many types around town, which was great. Had a lovely lunch at Kathmandu, and picked up some tasty goods at the Co-op. It’s so nice to be around town without any particular aim and with no time constraints. Lovely day. Capped it off by daydreaming through what I wanted to do with the front yard and garden, and hammered out some semi-concrete plans with Lewis. I’m rather looking forward to some yard work, maybe tomorrow, and I hope the weather warms up a little, it’s been really breezy.
Had our number crunching party tonight! Went off very well – I think I got the info I needed for my paper, and it was neat to get to work through the program with my own data, having a clue about what various things mean and what would be unexpected, etc. Good times. I also made a lasagna for the crowd, and managed to stuff some of my leftover peanut butter pie down them as well. All in all, quite a lovely night to cap off a lovely weekend. Ooh, we got bulbs planted today as well! Such productiveness.
We had some. In our grape vine!
So today was grapevine trimming day. The Lawyers came over this morning and we cut down all the non-woody growth on the vine, which should be its natural wintering state anyway. Found out that we didn’t have an infestation by any name, but definite evidence of prolonged hang-out-itude, so it’s good we were on top of it to dissuade any rodents from wintering with us. We also took down the very poorly placed hackberry that was dangling threateningly over our neighbor’s yard. It seems to be a volunteer from many years ago, but it was growing right against the fence and in between two obviously planted birch trees it seems to have been choking out. Most (all?) the hackberries in Davis are unhealthy anyway, so it was sort of a matter of time before this one got all yucky and dripped sap and goo all over. This is why our neighbor wanted it cut down!
Anyway, it does make us the tree-killin’ neighbors. Our local busybody (and resident 8-year-old) was rather perturbed about the grape vine (though it’s in our back yard…) though hasn’t seemed to notice anything about the tree in the front the city cut down last week, nor the hackberry we took out. He’s selectively protective, though I do have to allow the theory that since his best friends used to live in our house he has fond memories of the grapevine and/or palm tree. It is a little suspect, I completely admit, that we moved in here two months ago and have lost three and a half (if you’re counting all the grapevine we took out) trees. The city tree took everyone by surprise, though, since it turns out they didn’t tell anyone they were going to cut it down. We just came home and it was gone! Sounds like (from the Lawyers’ side) we’ll have some new trees in soon. The city owes us one, too!
Other than that, it was papers, papers, papers today. Finished the second section’s worth of homework from this week, and read the paper I set aside for myself today. Should have perhaps done a little more with my evening, but I was feeling quite off post dinner and decided to take the night off. Been spending a good amount of time getting Firefox all gussied up since I realized the new Ask doesn’t get along with Opera. I was getting a bit tired of having to switch between the two for all my Flash based stuff as well… but I’m not sure how long the Firefox trial will go. Just giving it a whirl for now.
Big small day tomorrow. It’s Monday, my blessedly least intensive day, but it’s also the day the undergrads need to turn in their first essays! Hopefully that won’t be too much chaos, but you never know. I’ve already had a few last-minute panickers, but nothing too intense. I’m more worried about the content of the essays and grading them than anything else. Plus I have a lot of homework to do tomorrow… Lewis and I need to whip up an “interview schedule” for our socioling project, and I’ve got more exciting reading to do. Egad! It’s certainly never dull around here.
Triumphantly Exhausted Boo
Today was a very entertaining day!
It was supposed to be the first day of our graduate student orientation stuff, but Lewis and I got a bit of a late start and decided to skip the non-mandatory first session this morning. We did go to campus anyway though, to check out the bookstore and see if we could figure out what books we need. The bookstore was in a bit of chaos with student workers still running around and putting everything up on the shelves, but we did manage to at least see what our required books were. Took some photos of the ISBN numbers on my phone so we could go home and see if the interwebs could work any magic for us.
We were pretty famished by then as it was already after lunch time, and we still had a trip to Ace in our future, so we took ourselves to Sams to get our schwarma on. I do love Sams. Anyway, thereafter to Ace to pick up some stuff like gloves for the garden and a lightbulb we couldn’t find elsewhere. Luck on all fronts!
Ace also has a nice selection of ornamental grasses, which is what we’re thinking we want to put in the front yard in lieu of palm tree. Lewis has this wonderful vision in mind of a little pebbled path with grasses and a little bench to hang out on. Not sure how we’re going to achieve said thing, but we at least find a grasses-supplier which is better than I thought we might do. Ace also has bulbs out and ready for spring planting! I was just reading that we should be planting our daffodils and tulips soon, and voila, Ace has bulbs for like 10 different sorts of daffodil, and some nice looking iris and crocus as well. We’re about to go bulb-hog wild.
Those cheeky clouds.
Rest of the day was pretty lazy. I threw together a preliminary budget, while Lewis did a little gardening in the front yard. Boo escaped out the front door while I was walking in and out, and we decided it was maybe time to graduate the little guy to ourdoor privilages. I watched him pretty nervously for the first while until he eventually scared himself back indoors. He seemed pretty tuckered out after such big adventuring, and he pretty much slept the rest of the afternoon (see figure above).
Lewis and I took a late afternoon jaunt to the local park to investigate the screamy soccer noises we were hearing, and spent a while looking at clouds and talking about silly coveted childhood toys. I’m really tempted to troll ebay looking for Micro Machines now! Boy, those things were pretty fantastic. We also identified several excellent looking clouds. The picture on the left is one that looked like a big hand, so Lewis is giving it a high-five. I promise it looked more like a hand in real life.
Polished off the day with delicious stir fry noodles, finally getting around to watching La Dolce Vida, and drinking one of our donated bottles of red wine left from the housewarming party. All in all, a wonderful movie, and the perfect cap to a fantastic day!
