at least my bathroom is clean

so one great experience today. when i told the 4th grader i tutor in math that our time was up today he got a totally sad look on his face. i had to give in and work with him for another 5 minutes. and then when talking with his mom saw a glaring mistake that i totally missed. the kid is super cute though. we figured out how many penguins there are in the world today.

i need to go pick up my laundry so i will have sheets on my bed.

um, if you catch the 'we are the pool' video on youtube. i apparently know the the life size coolaid container.

how i know that but somehow missed the fact that the head of moma makes 5 million dollars. astounds me. ifit is impossible to miss the rat infested kfc on the news, but somehow lowry's salary and perks didn't make the tv news for multiple days. did i just not read gothamist closely enough or did it let me down?

i'm subbing on friday for the kindergarten. and its pajama day-makes me wanna puke. i'll come up with something, b/c i'm pretty sure they don't want to see my naked ass.

i blame the no sleep red eye and jet lag

for my gashes on my hands after breaking a glass while trying to wash it. the glass is still in the sink, but i think it sharded and i don't want to touch it. my one hour nap and then i will be super productive today turned into 4.5 of sleep. which i'm not really complaining about but i am not prepared for my day let alone my week. so much for working 2-3 hours everday.
but i had a great trip. saw good peeps, made good purchases, chilled, saw pretty views, walked on the beach and was chill. and not over comitted.
may blog more about it later. but maybe not. the museum of glass is a really education friendly museum. worth the trip down to tacoma. and glad we finished the trip off with a trip to cremlita (or something like that) for a nice veggie dinner. yum.
love to all the peeps in the northwest.

i am the skeeball champ

280! baby. short course and the machine robbed of points, and didn't give out any tickets. (although when i continued playing in my dream it did give out tickets)
um. discovery park near sunset and low tide=gorgeous!

i bought a cute hipster, diy clutch last night. i kinda love and hate it, but know i need it. seatlle kinda reminds me of the 'burgh and of brooklyn. like its a nice place, interesting and varied architecture and lots of neighborhoods with boutique shops. maybe if the people on I5 had any clue as to how to drive and the world didn't run on EST i could see myself out here. although food is not cheap.

watched grey's anatomy this morning in seattle. seemed fitting, having recently been on a ferry boat and all. doesn't look like i will hit the y this morning. maybe tomorrow.

also the weekend arts section comes on friday here. i'm thinking it comes on sat in nyc, but since i only get the paper online i'm not sure.

amazing the difference tide makes

went out for a walk on the beach at the peak of high tide and was pretty much like-um there isnt a beach in either direction. and walked out on the piled up driftwood for a while. came back did my interview and went out to take pics of the bluff for my natural history/geography lessons with my 4th and 5th graders and there was a beach in both directions cause the tide went out.
its pretty here. had a view of the olympics for a little while, but not clear enough.
quick shower and heading back south to the mainland. though first i will have to get off the dirt road (both its name and description) and off of the dead end. good thing i have mickey's jeep.
many thanks to the whidebey couple for dinner and seeing their property and letting me crash and use their camera.
bisous

notes from my plane yesterday

--why is delta's flight monitoring information in french as the second language? their saefty video had spanish.
--jet blue refunded my money (or so they say i need to check my credit card statement) and is giving me a travel voucher
--i rented a movie in the cinncinatti airport that i can return in the seattle airport on sunday for $5 not bad, if i watch it and remember to return it. and the battery holds out on my computer.

the view out mickey's front and back windows are pretty great and gorgeous!

the accents on dve drive me crazy

rant into my mom's best friend at the jcc gym this morning. she checked to see the state of my underarm hair-annoying. she also gave me grief for having part time jobs and not looking for a full time job.
annoyed that because i have a full thing of toothpaste and hair styling stuff i can't carry on my luggage. it better make the switch of planes.

back in th 'burgh

which has looked very pretty while covered with fresh snow and a layer of ice on the trees.
my grandmother is the same. i see some similarities in our behavior patterns that make me really fear my old age, as her quality of life at 98 is not so hot.

i slept in for the first time in a while today and it felt so nice..... i totally wouldn't mind being asleep at 10pm tonight

being locked out sucks

and i have lost an hour of precious sleep over it.
went to bamcafe live tonight. one band was awesome. soul-funk. the other were great musicians but i didn't like the music, but seeing good artistry proves that even if you don't like something it can still be really great to watch. although my eardrums are still ringing.

the bam cafe is such an archetype of itself, or maybe people are just cool and not that so into the scene-but i kind of doubt it, but i'm also an outside. this made more sense int he hour i waited on my stoop for my roommate to come home to let me in. but now i'm freaking about my lack of sleep and packing (the freaking which will make it harder for me to fall asleep)

lashon hora love it hey go to hell the easy way

dude. i need to catch up on some sleep. but that does not seem possible. i am so overbooked for the 24 hours and ass tired. why did i wake up at 8;30 this morning when my alarm was set for 10:30 when i went to bed at 2?
much to say not much time
1) i ditched speeddating. i felt shitty, it was shitty out, it was going to be my only chance to see chill before i left and the person i was going with couldn't go
2) i got a rose from the students as part of the middle school play. i kinda feel like a fraud about that. i'm only sort of part of the middle school staff. the play was ok, i guess. need to remember it wasn't a Broadway production. but the sets were great.
3) on wed a third grader told me that she was going to tell a boy in her class that she loved him in the bathroom after-school for valentines day. all i wanted to do was shout, NOOOOO don't do it.
4) i think that christan slater may turn out to be a bit of a leopold character. that's not necessarily bad but its not helped by my over analyzing everything nursery school boy says. seriously is he this 'chipper' with everyone or just me?
5) why am i still on hold trying to refill a prescription? and i guarantee the person who recored this message who sound like a 40 year old blond from delaware does not work at this pharmacy. i wonder if she is a real voice?

sleepwalkers-not all that

i'm glad i saw it.; is till support creative time projects. but i wasn't so impressed. i was kinda bothered by the lack of soundtrack. and maybe on just two screens would have been cooler.
went with nursery school boy and his brother and cousin. i dunno what's up with that. i just finished time traveler's wife, and i want that kind of big love. i shouldn't be allowed to read love stories just like i shouldn't be allowed to watch them as movies.

i heart the freedom to marry logo

i know that if a logo is cute, then it probably isn't strong and all that, but i think its getting its message across in a simple way. this week is national freedom to marry week.

i'm sick. i'm drinking nothing but my week ass roobis for the the rest of the day. hopefully this batch will have some of the same medicinal properties.

i was talking with some coworkers yesterday and mentioned how a friend had not taken down her ketubah (which is gorgeous) even though she is now religiously and civilly divorced and i thought it was weird. one coworker mentioned that its traditional to rip it up when the get is given. i have previously mentioned how into my grandparents ketubah i was and wondered if my parents had a ketubah. this is my dad's response (how much do you love this man):
Mother and I did not write and sign a ketubah. However, given that we've
been married for more than 41 years, I don't think that our marriage has
suffered. As I tell my classes, marriage contracts are not legally
enforceable agreements. They are sustained by mutual respect and
understanding that the long term value of a good relationship is too
important to be destroyed by momentary disagreements. That's not to say
that we've never had our arguments---although, true be told, I don't
remember what we may have argued about. I guess we've just been lucky.
You should be so blessed

hendricks and tonic with a cucumber

it may bring me back to drinking gin and tonics. i've been on whiskey sours for so long...
i want to go back to napa to tour the Hundertwasser designed winery. I beyond loved the stuff of his I saw in Vienna. crazy genius. and napa is um gorgeous.

so don't want to work today, am totally fighting a cold and fear losing the fight.

basically good day taking the kids up to black rock. got to skate around on top of a frozen over pond, which i'd never done before-city girl that i am. walking around on the snow covered trail was great. so pretty. such great light! but at the end of the bus ride had an uncomfortable situation i didn't know what to do about with a game boyesque thing (i don't pay attention anymore) possible getting stolen or getting lost. i didn't want to accuse anyone, but it didn't just disappear either.

must get oj before work.

i'm so fucking tired

i got suckered into subbing today and have to be there earlier than i would if i was teaching. and i have to be up but ass early tomorrow to go be cold all day.

went on a date last night with someone who looks and sounds like christian slater. it took me forvever to figure it out. i had to ask him actually.

um. who wants to live in starrtet city at market rents? keep it in mitchell lamma.

um there may be aerial arts at the brooklyn lyceum and i can't find details

as it turns out i will not miss julie atlas muz but i will miss sleepwalkers, this saddens me.
hung out with nursery school boy-he got in touch with me-and nyuwritergirl at freddy's tonight. that place is so reasonably priced i can't deal.
and i got the bus home, but i asked to be left off at my street (which after 10 pm you can request the bus to stop anywhere on the route) and he totally drove by, i was like um,i wanted to get out there, can i get out here? i also wasn't paying so much attention as i was trying to get in a couple pages of my book/
its late and while i'm not drunk, i'm not sober, and i am soooo unprepared to teach any of my classes tomorrow.
oops.
l8r

i got a job

so i got offered a job for this summer. where the pay is decent, i guess. but i have to be on the UWS at 8am every day-and spend a lot of time in my bathing suit 3 days a week. do i actually want to be a camp counselor? or is it just something 'easy' to do? i really want this costa rica gig. i'm going to ignore the email for a bit until i have the contract in hand.

had a crazy dream about the offer i'm going to get from the school i work at for next year and about how all the kids hate me as a teacher. i don't totally think this is true. but we'll see. apparently we speak about all the kids at graduation, i'm not sure i'll have enough to say about any kid. also i spent an hour researching shit last night and putting together a list of great trip ideas for a middle school field trip-more than her off-hand email request asked for. a thanks! would be a nice response. i'm subbing as a gym teacher next week-i find thid hilarious!

there is a horse powered kosher organic maple syrup farm in vermont run by some probably chabad guy that i kinda want to volunteer at... its called sweet whisper

traffic is moving quickly on the BQE

Chad used to comment that if he was going to drive anywhere someone needed to look out my window to see what the status of the BQE is like. Tonight traffic seems to be moving nicely in both directions.

i went to mr jewsa's tu b'shvat seder tonight. i found it fairly uninspiring, or more like it lacked some soul. he was so big on this being the 6th annual, and it had the feel of something that was once cool, but now was less slip shod and more formal and so also less intimate. even the singing at the end was kinda lackluster. my teaching was ok. pretty extemporaneous, but thought it made some kinda point.

i'm kinda turning into a night person. which is weird, b/c i totally fall asleep early when out with peeps. but i'm more more able to take care of shit than i can in the morning.

did i mention that i'm going speed dating on valntine's day? shoot me. the tickets came in the mail today....

still pissed about not finding the weezer song i want on itunes.

so apparently tonight is leopold and his girlfriend's 1 year anniversary b/c at the show i was at tonight of a coworker, who i generally love to hear sing, (i wasn't as in to her free styling stuff) she dedicated a song to them. bleh. he will probably be there tomorrow night too. double bleh. i so haven't prepared by shit for the seder, what should i teach about birah (creation)?

feel like i'm fighting a cold. so i ditched a superbowl party. oh well, well oh well for watching the superbowl. not oh well for cultivating a friendship. mr jewusa is going back to vancouver in the fall. seriously everyone is leaving new york and need to stop!

latest itunes purchase: alison road by the gin blossoms

mazel tov to mr s&m for getting a new job

i now now two couples who are intentionally pregnant. this one on their first month of trying, i learned all about how it goes tonight. craziness. esp b.c they are going to leave the city for the suburbs. so sad to me. people stop leaving the city. who am i going to play with?

one night two very different shabbat dinners

the first one with yummy food but a weird crowd. the second, also with yummy food, but i was only there for dessert and dessert wine. yum. and the second one had a crowd that i love and probably won't see much of once mollie rose leaves and that makes me sad. i am really into the vassar boys, esp one of them, who maybe i could hang out with, but he just post serious break up (will you marry me? no.) and don't know what his deal is. also he's more into slip n' slide buddy. and ususally i end up insulting one of them, but on accident, and maybe that's why he and mollie rose are friends and not he and i.

i need my book back from schwar. am reading the time traveler's wife. that must have been really hard to keep track of while writing, i'm keeping up, but could be potentially confusing as a reader.

i feel like i had something either more poetic or poignant to say, but am not coming up with it. must just be how i want to be with someone and not go to bed alone. woe is me...........

i don't think i'm going to make it to the juie atlas muz show or no great society-which maybe i'm not so sad about. elevator repair service is a damn cool company, a play about the beat generation and jack kerouac, maybe i can pass on. s&m better be into the show that mr. s&m suggested for next weekend.

another one bites the dust

you know what can be annoying, but also means less lesson planning...working for a school that is in the process of moving and putting on its middle school play-which rehearses in your room during school hours. next week i am supposed to pack 35 boxes and then the following week unpack about 47 (some are already in storage) and find places for them to go.

went to the philharmonic last night. pretty good concert. there was a big contingent of white folks in between ages 22-30 in serious black tie and drinking champagne. i wonder what the occasion was. and was is the big deal about champagne that makes it fancy. that it is french? that it is sparkly?
the ravel piece was nice and upbeat and totally my style. i am all about classical music written in europe between 1870 and 1930. the second was a world premiere and a piano concerto, but i'm not really sure what that means/ yes there was a piano, but i didn't think it played so much. i am so not into discordant music, but thankfully that was not the theme.

and in the most horrible of news, mollie rose is moving to dc. she got a job-congrats, but i'm so not pleased about this. for many reasons. stop moving away good friends. esp those that live close and like to drink red wine and have shabbat and go to dance performances