Last night:
“I have a student who’s really cute. He’s not doing well in the class, but he tries really hard.”
“Should I be worried that you think your students are cute?”
“He’s not that kind of cute. He’s like wookie-cute.”
“Wookie-cute? [insert really pathetic imitation of Chewbacca that sounds like a howler monkey w/hemorhhoids]
“No, No, No. Not wookie cute, _ewok_ cute. Like a teddy bear.”
“Oh. Yah. Big difference.”
From Aunt Susan (a.k.a. “Conan the librarian”):
900 years ago monasteries were tough on people failing to return books, even to the point of excommunicating them and places curses on their heads. For example:
“For him that stealeth, or borrow and returneth not this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, cry aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease in his agony til he sing his dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of hell consume him forever.”
So maybe I’ll use this curse the next time that someone (who shall remain nameless) asks to check out his books on my card because his is maxxed out. And somehow all the books on his card get turned in on time and all the books on my card end up overdue?
Today was busy. Not just your regular garden-variety busy, but the kind of busy where you are timing how long it will take to put away the frozen stuff from the grocery store because you are already late to your next meeting and you have to choose whether to take 20 seconds to pee or to change your shoes that are giving you blisters.
I got so flustered this afternoon that I goofed and took the car to a meeting when John needed it to get to class. And then his cell phone broke. And then my cellphone starting ringing like crazy in the middle of my meeting when he got home and found no car. ACK!
So…what I’m trying to say, John, is that I’m sorry. And I hope you made it to class on time even though you got a late start.
Ganbarimasu!!
🙂
leave off studying at midnight to spend some time with me. even when you really should be reading for class, even when you’re tired, even we we both know that we’ll need to get up in just a few hours….
🙂
musee d’orsay
Originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.
Woke up missing Paris today. Looked through some of the photos from our trip last summer and decided to post this one of me sitting in the cafe at the musee d’orsay. [I highly recommend this cafe, BTW. Though the museum itself is amazing, you have to eat there to really appreciate it!]. This morning I also loaded just a few of our pics from the trip onto flickr for everyone to enjoy.
I decided, after looking at this photo, that the inspiration for the new blue wall in our bedroom may have come from the ceiling in the musee. Peut-etre?
P.S. John took this picture of me. It’s wonderful to have a husband who makes me feel beautiful through the pictures that he takes. 🙂
Fancy date, 1990
Originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.
Well, as of tomorrow John and I will have been married for 13 years. Unbelievable.
Some days I wonder where the time has gone? Can it really be 13 years since that Wednesday morning we were married at the LA Temple?
But when, like yesterday, I look through the boxes of old pictures, I realize just how much time has passed–seeing it visually makes it all seem real.
So I put together a brief slideshow of pics from our early years. I apologize for the graininess/poor quality of the pics–but these are old! 🙂 Perhaps you’ll enjoy this trip down memory lane with me and John.
Love,
Jana
Well, this will be a big week for our litle family. This is the week that John will start back to school. He’s been waiting for this day for a very long time. He’s finally going back to study a subject of his own choosing (religious studies), and not a study that is practical (MBA) or highly employable (japanese politics and economics).
This evening as we planned our week John and I realized that once the kids start school it will take a miracle for us to be able to get everyone where they need to go. With one car, four busy schedules, and a Long Beach commute, well, it’s mind-boggling. There will be sacrifices (bus rides, missed gymnastics practices, no time for visiting w/professors, babysitting, etc?). There will be stress.
But I think it will be worth it.
To me, it’s far better to be struggling towards a lofty goal, than to be wandering aimlessly without one. I am keeping my fingers crossed, keeping a prayer in my heart, and hoping for the best. For all of us.
Guess I’ll feel really comfortable in my Mormon community now that I have an “official” Mo name. Here it is:
My Mormon name is An’Janae.
John’s is even cooler than mine:
His Mormon name is Jadon.
What’s yours?
John’s heading up to Sunstone tomorrow. I am staying home since I’m usually the one heading out of town for conferences these days and one of us has to see the kids through the end of summer school.
I’m renting some good movies while John’s gone. Movies with Ewan McGregor that don’t involve light sabers. {BTW, did you know that Ewan, John and I are all the same age? Ewan was born in one of the two months between me & John’s birthdays}. Oh, and I might rent some Brad Pitt movies, too (tho he’s no longer as attractive to me as he used to be. Even though his photo shoot with Jolie was oh-so-vintage-cool).
But I’ll also be incredibly lonely and more than a little bored this week without John. I’ll miss him…
About a year ago John drew this picture of me to celebrate my new pair of reading glasses…