vino vino!

i read my last post and realized i sound like an alcoholic. truly, i only drink a few glasses of red wine a week. but wine consumption was up this weekend by several notches...as SuperDork and i spent two evenings at two different swanky wine bars in Austin. now we have this sort of distant dream of opening our own coffee shop/ wine bar one day. a very abstract sort of dream. but given that we met at a coffee shop, our first date was at a coffee shop, and that we buy coffee in bulk, its a very fitting dream.

in other news... valentines day was low-key: fonda san miguel for dinner and then mt. bonnell to gaze upon the well-lit mansions of austin's rich... who, by the way dont pay property taxes because their homes sit on lake austin. thats the rumor anyways. the outrage! i need to add that to my list of causes.

we have transitioned from chaucer to shakespeare in my class, and last night i was up past 1 am trying to read "two noble kingsmen." and today i have to figure out how to create charts and graphs to track regional variations in corpus linguistics. YEAH, that will be real helpful knowledge when im a teacher.

watched "the big sleep" for the 3rd or 4th time this weekend. ran around town lake. went to sister in law's for hamburgers. finished a lesson plan on "point of view" using the book "wicked." reconnected with friends in NM and revived longstanding debate at home on whether we should move to the wild desert!

thats all for now.

ciao!