ah, its been awhile.

life is so hectic right now, i hardly have time to write. last week i was so stressed out that i got some weird spasm of my eye. yes, mine eye! i thought i was going to walk around with a twitching eye the rest of my life like someone with tourette syndrome. but then i drank wine, fell asleep, and it stopped.

my semester is a combination of thrill and misery. the thrill of course is being back in an academic setting, reading chaucer in middle english (which i LOVE) and just learning in general. the misery is speed walking from my class to my car, eating a sandwich with my left hand while i drive with my right hand to work (watch out, pedestrians, you fools!). then sprinting to my office door. i dont know why at this point i am so determined to try to do both...i suppose i still get some sort of satisfaction out of my job. i got an article published in an academic journal this year, and i finished a chapter with my colleagues which will be published in a book next year. i suppose these are good things, and its hard to walk away from.

whatever social life i had now seems nonexistent. i spend friday nights learning about Subject Predicatives. i spend saturday nights writing lesson plans. soon spring is coming and im going to be really depressed if im not out biking on beautiful saturday afternoons. alas.

superdork and i went to a gala/ fundraiser this weekend. i had several mishaps involving my dress. i forgot my tolerance was low (due to lack of recent social life) and drank one too many glasses of red wine. there was an auction and we bid on a sushi dinner at a uchi, which i hope we won, because i could use a good dose of sake toro and hotate right now. even if it is at austin's most chichi restaurant where everyone is confused and thinks South Lamar is Hollywood Boulevard.

what else? oh, our summer vacation is set for the coast of maine, including possibly acadia national park. perhaps the most beautiful place on earth.

must get back to reading chaucer. who, by the way, had a sick, sick mind! if right-wing fundamentalists only read more, the canterbury tales would certainly surpass harry potter as the most banned book in texas schools!