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Saturday, September 27, 2003 ( 9/27/2003 02:12:00 PM ) Jeanne Life has become insane. I've always been kind of uptight about people who are constantly saying that they're busy. Somehow it always seems like it means, "busier than you" when really we've all got the same 24 hours in a day. It's all about choices (well if you've actually got choices). Anyway, this is the long run around way of saying I am really busy. Busier I think than I have ever been before. I don't know what I thought grad school was going to be like. I mean I knew it was a lot of work, but I don't think I anticipated the accumulation of that, plus work, plus another job and then of course I do have a family. I love my family dearly, but I do find myself a little wistfully envious when I look at many of my single classmates. I just have to keep reminding myself that I had that time in my life too, I just wasn't in school at the same time.
Sunday, September 14, 2003 ( 9/14/2003 08:08:00 AM ) Jeanne Its early Sunday morning, a time most sane people, or maybe that should read people without kids, should be sleeping. It would be fine if once Sofia got me up for milk and a video if I could just head back to bed and crash, but once I'm awake my mind starts cartwheeling over all the things I need to do and should be doing, or there is always things I do do but shouldn't have! School so far is good. As I expected from grad school there is tons of reading, but I think Cornell prepared me well for this as there was about 10 times more reading than there had been at Iowa State where I went previously. I'm scheming on how I will get an internship this summer in Argentina for a month at a library just previous to the IFLA conference in Buenos Aires. I'm hoping the kids will be able to spend the time I'm in BA working at Maca's ranch. I don't think it will be a problem, but of course it means missing a chunk of summer. I found a couple of old friends/acquaintances via the web the other day. All are musicians still which made them easier to find as they are of course promoting their work. It is especially interesting to see how they've all aged as the last time I saw any of them I was in my early 20's. Kenny Dread's got a new solo album, Pat Johnson is still rocking out with the Maydays , and Dan (former drummer of one of my favorite 80's DC bands 9353) whose last name I can not remember from two days ago! continues on his merry experimental way. # Tuesday, September 02, 2003 ( 9/02/2003 11:47:00 PM ) Jeanne Yet again epic amounts of time pass before I pay attention to this little dust bunny of a blog. What I *really* need to do is go delete the music and movie section of this blog. I'm not sure I will keep posting to the books, but I can't bring myself to delete it! I've finally started Grad School in library science as well as my position at the food coop, which I did get. I'm kind of stressed about it all in a detached sort of way. We still haven't got all the logistics of getting Micaela and Sofia to their respective schools in the morning, which of course are in totally opposite directions. This is the nice thing about having two parents to two kids, but the schedules are still kind of wacky. Ok what I really need to be doing right now is sleeping, maybe I'll make it back here sooner, rather than later.... # Tuesday, July 15, 2003 ( 7/15/2003 09:26:00 AM ) Jeanne Long time no blog. Its summer and I'm lazy although for being lazy I'm managing to do quite a bit. We headed back East to visit family for two weeks in June while Juan was away for work in Scotland. We managed to visit some of my online friends, see an incredible Frederick Remington exhibit at the National Gallery and have a reunion with a group of my oldest friends in DC.
Thursday, May 22, 2003 ( 5/22/2003 08:47:00 PM ) Jeanne I started French classes this week. So far so good. Unfortunately it is more geared towards "travel" French as there are several people planning trips. I am not interested in learning how to shop or order food at a restaurant (although of course those are great things to know), but rather *learning* the language. To that end I discovered a wonderful online French tutorial with tons of audio clips and clear expanations of grammar and sentence structure. I am enjoying this so much that I think I'm going to donate a few bucks to the creator's paypal account. If I keep this up we want to get Rosetta Stone, which is an excellent CD language learning program that also has voice recognition to try and match pronounciation. It turns out that Micaela will not be going to Home Hi school next year. They didn't receive enough applications for the fifth grade so they won't have a fifth grade class next year. We will probably try to send her after next year and in the meantime are looking at another possibility besides where she is right now for next year. Champaign-Urbana is very quiet now that the students have finished classes and fled. It is so peaceful and there is much less traffic, there are also many less SUVs which seem to be the plague vehicle among undergrads. As if they are off roading and don't live two blocks from campus. # Tuesday, May 13, 2003 ( 5/13/2003 04:48:00 PM ) Jeanne Few minutes of web fame at the picket we went to the other day. The second pic from the top is me and Sofia at the picket for Illinois House Bill 211, which would require insurance companies to cover birth control. The local Independent Media Center snapped it and the rest of their site is lovely as well. I'm dog tired today. Worked at Planned Parenthood, met with my advisor at GSLIS came home to make an oriental noodle dish for Sofia's daycare potluck tonight and will leave for said event in a few minutes. I did manage to stop by our local movie place and pick up a "chick" flick, Personal Velocity, which I hope to see tonight. It has to be back tommorow by nine. Parker Posey is in the film and it won the grand jury prize at Sundance so I've got high hopes. # Monday, May 12, 2003 ( 5/12/2003 09:48:00 AM ) Jeanne Watched White Teeth last night on PBS. I know I'm the only person in the universe who didn't like this book, at least it seems that way, so the fact that I enjoyed this Masterpiece Theater version more than the book didn't come as any surprise. Had a nice Mother's Day with our traditional breakfast in bed and a day of not lifting a finger for mundane tasks like cooking and cleaning. Oh and the kids both made me a card. I'm having dreams of learning to rag hook "rugs" after I got a book at the library, Beautiful Ragwork. I don't know that I will be doing rugs, but maybe smaller decorative items. I hate the word decorative, because I don't even decorate my house per se, or at least in that Martha Stewart coordinating kind of way. We've got a few things we like in the house like our wooden Indonesian goddess, the stained glass window I lucked into when I moved into a warehouse studio in California and the people who were leaving didn't want it, and a reproduction of Duhrer's rhinocerous that I got Juan for a Ph.D. gift. I'm actually going to go write about some books I've been reading on my book blog, which I've been neglecting. # |
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