I keep confusing school with my job. When a teacher assigns work, I’m affronted. “You want this tonight? The quickest I could turn it around is about a week.” Fail. I had a dream last night with a tragic ending. Someone had given me two Norcos. I joyfully popped them and then, just before I started to feel the effects, my alarm clock went off. People think I am very funny. I wish I meant […]
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Full Moon
Sorry for that last boring, long post. I violated all rules of bloggery by going back and excising chunks of it. Last night I dreamed I turned my car off the road and drove toward a marsh. “Don’t go that way,” I warned myself, but still I kept driving. So this is what they meant by “intensive.” Remind me next time I go to grad school not to move across the country the night before […]
Read moreGetting Oriented, as My Mother Would Say
Today was the first day of orientation. It entailed the things I hate most: wandering around a place pretending to look like you’re happy and comfortable and something other than prehistoric, but in fact knowing no one or nothing. But it turned out fine. I got my geriatric-student ID card with nary a snicker from the photographer. I even managed to strike up a conversation with several people. I didn’t know I could do that: […]
Read moreMiles To Go Before I Unpack
Dear Anna took me to the Oakland Airport on Wednesday morning. I couldn’t bear to watch her walk away. What a stalwart friend. Trip to Philadelphia was easy. I took a sleeping pill, slumped my way to our stopover in Phoenix, took another sleeping pill and snored my way — bandanna over face as always — to my destination. An hour later — around 1:30 a.m. — I was at Mom’s house, greeted by aforementioned […]
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