Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • _Gone Girl_ by Gillian Flynn A couple of colleagues and friends from work asked if I was interested in joining in reading this book with them since one said it was a book that you want to read with someone to be able to talk about it. Intrigued by the idea and never really having done a ‘book club’ type thing before (unless you count Bible studies), I thought I’d give it a…

  • Time for a wee update on the drugs. Do I call them drugs or medication or is it the same? Hm… So, as you can see I still am pondering things at a weird depth, but the change is happening in that I am not really worrying about things so much. In fact, I feel almost confused not having things swirling around in my head so much that I think it is contributing…

  • Yes, I’m back on the topic of being tired. Can you sense a theme here? Yesterday at pottery, my teacher asked why it is that everyone is always tired in this country. One of the local girls said it’s because it is summer…; not exactly a satisfactory answer to the rest of us since we are tired all of the time and there is no doubt that her life does not require the…

  • Ballet is a mysterious part of my life. In my second adoptive family, I used to take ballet lessons. My crazy mother at the time was really into “Flashdance” and perhaps had some dream that I would become her surrogate dancer or something. In any case, I did fall in love with ballet, but due to my bad memories of her I never really wanted to have anything to do with it once…

  • There is really nothing as wonderful as a tasty margarita at the end of a long week. The times when I have gotten really drunk or pass out early are when I have not eaten enough during the day. I can often forget to have proper food throughout the day when I get super busy. Yesterday was one of those days I had 5-hours of teaching, plus visited another class and was tired…

  • It seems that everyone I talked to at work today was feeling very tired or exhausted somehow. I hardly got out of bed this morning when my alarm went off. Thankfully, I was able to escape again to come home to do some study-work, but wish today was the beginning of the weekend instead of having one more day to go. I am not sure why it is going around, but maybe it…

  • Have you ever wondered about the full story of Rip Van Winkle? I have only ever known that he slept a lot, but never knew the story in full. So, thanks to Wikipedia I learned something new today. Random, you might say? Well, yesterday I laid down to take a short nap and woke up an hour later instead. This is unusually long for me. Then, I went to bed rather early –…

  • So, this term I was given five hours a week of what is called ‘release’ time, which means non-teaching time. This was in payment for the time I spent coordinating earlier in the year. I had sort of forgotten about it or assumed that I would not receive the time given that I had only coordinated for one year and was unceremoniously told not to continue…(that’s another story). Thus, it came as a…

  • For me and most of the American population the 5th of May mostly means eating Mexican food and having some margaritas. I would gather that the vast majority of us have no idea really what the day signifies. I only know that it has some important historical context since most holidays are the case. I said “Happy Cinco de Mayo” to my Mexican friend and she said that it isn’t a big deal…

  • Back in my early education days I was notorious for getting my work done right away. I always thought about how if I finished my homework early, then I would have more free time to do other things. It was a good foundation for entering university. I never had those typical all-nighters working on an assignment that was due the next morning. In-between classes I used to come back to my room and…

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