i refuse to be stressed until the 28th

yesterday, after dropping the bomb to my current boss that i will not be returning after christmas break, i travelled out to west valley to meet my new class.

the precise moment that i crossed the threshold to enter the classroom, not only did everything that i have to get ready for january 4 come piling down upon my head, but a myriad of other things, too.

like the fact that i am playing the piano for my current school's christmas concert tomorrow and i haven't practiced any of the music.

and the fact that i'm going out of town saturday morning and don't get back until the day before christmas, and i've not done one single iota of christmas shopping.

and the fact that i have piles of junk to sort through in that classroom, a new curriculum to become acquainted with, and a car to buy.

i won't be able to go in until the 28th and begin my classroom overhaul, so i've decided to put off all anxiety until then. christmas presents...meh, i'll just get them in l.a. choir concert...meh, who cares, i'm sure i can wing it, and i'm leaving anyway.

stress, you are officially suspended for twelve days.

los angeles, i'm yours

approximately 288 hours until i am in l.a. for the third time this year. that is, if i live through the snow here in the meantime.

thankful

i am not usually very festive, but i thought compiling a list of things i am thankful for would spite all the people who think it's christmas already and have forgotten about thanksgiving.

i am thankful to:

-cable knit tights for allowing me to still wear skirts in wintertime

-internet memes such as brian peppers for providing me with entertaining nightmares

-diet cokes with lemon, strawberry limeades at sonic, and caramel apple spice from starbucks for keeping me from being an alcoholic

-the l.a. times crossword for preserving my sanity during my three-hour classes of death

-etsy.com for providing a worthy place to spend my hard-earned money

-conor oberst for just being conor oberst

-people who talk about me in spanish, but think i can't understand them for making me feel special and creeped out

-books for vicariously getting me out of effington--whoops, i mean farmington

-peopleofwalmart.com for making me feel positively gorgeous

-buster bluth and buster wride for both acting a little bit mentally challenged

-the vampire diaries, cosmo, and glee for being the best guilty pleasures a girl could ask for

-gouda for being one of the three foods i actually like

announcement

it is not okay, has never been okay, and will never, EVER be okay to cut a wart off your finger using nail clippers during sunday school.

that is all.

what i should be doing:

what i am actually doing:

can you really blame me, though?

elliott smith

RIP

whoops...

...i have been less than vigilant about keeping up with this blog since its resurrection. here are my greatest accomplishments in the last month:

i totaled my car

i landed a new job

i began journaling my dreams
i contracted the h1n1 virus
pretty successful month, i'd say

the awakening

i recently picked up a copy of kate chopin's the awakening at the thrift store, as it's been on my list of books to read for ages. when i opened it up, written on the inside front cover i read this:

Allie--

Here's to the greatest little surrogate sister a guy could have. Here's to more salmon polenta and pink skies. Please don't let this book "awaken" you too much, as it has others, hint, hint, nudge nudge. Otherwise, enjoy.

Love,

David

i am irrevocably disappointed in this allie character. david, wherever you are, she may have tossed you to the side (and i may loathe polenta), but i happily volunteer to be your new surrogate little sister.

we are nowhere, and it's now

well, after a long hiatus and a lot of uncertainty, i have offically decided to return to blogging. however, i am shocked to discover that what i thought was a break of just a few weeks has in fact turned into a period of more than eight months. i was nowhere and it was now for so long that i lost track of time, i guess.

eerily, shortly after i began to type this, i noticed that i had a new comment on my one remaining post. donniella donnattello, i have no idea who you are, but never fear, my blog abandonment has ceased.

and now, here are two dramatic stories to officially resume my bloggerness:

dramz number one—clark e. goes to law school

clark will no doubt be claiming that his story gave me the guts to carry out my own saga, so i might as well humor him. after returning to california on the thirteenth (a thursday) from teaching english in guatemala, clark called to let me know that he would not be moving out to utah for law school that sunday as we'd previously discussed. instead, he informed me, he would be moving to pennsylvania to go to drexel, which started on monday. had he packed? no. did he know where he was living? not really. had he booked a flight yet? uh...he was working on it. but somehow it seems everything worked out, and despite the jet lag, he has now successfully completed his first week of law school in philidelphia.

dramz number two—emily gets her masters

over the summer, i decided that i wanted to teach school again, and i applied to a lot of different places. however, thanks to the lovely economy, old teachers are not retiring, the would-be jobs left by ones who actually have are not being filled, and candidate pools are huge. consequently, no job for emily. maybe i held out for a little too long without a plan b, because when monday rolled around and nearly all the elementary schools had started, i still had no idea what i was doing with my life. to make a long story short, some strings were pulled, and at about 2:30, i decided that i was going to get my esl endorsement and start working on my masters at weber state, and by 4:30 i was sitting in class. i didn’t exactly move from country to country then from state to state like clark did, but it was definitely enough spontaneity to last me for a while.

I am, I said

I am bored of everything.

I am reinventing myself and my blog.

I am considering leaving the blogosphere altogether.

I am done with this post now.