davethechamp

Today at work Steve informed me that he's not surprised to learn that most of my friends are hippies, because he's noticed that I have a hippy demeanor. Not that that's a bad thing. He says when he was my age he had hair down to his waist and a van with tie-dyed curtains that he'd sewn himself.

I made a cake. I also made a giant batch of lemon quinoa salad and about 50 pumpkin cookies.

A large van with tinted windows recently rented out the garage below my apartment, and it's always going in and out at odd hours in a highly suspicious manner.

I've become the queen of putting up my hair with a pencil, and I've only accidentally written on the wall once by leaning up against it without regard to the repercussions of the pencil. It occurred to me later that I could have turned around and erased the wall with the other side of the pencil, and I'm quite upset that I didn't think of it at the time.

I'm amidst book five of the Wheel of Time, and all I want to do is play around with balefire, course of history be damned.

And tomorrow I'm going to attempt to bake a cake.

I switched to a yoga/pilates mix, and it is kicking my ass. It's awesome.

And I'm sad to say I've now been exposed to the Star Wars Holiday Special.

My ESL students bought me a gift. A fancy one, and I didn't even remember to bring them Christmas candy. And they all gave me hugs and took like a hundred photos with me. It was like Tanzania, for being in so many pictures I could no longer see. I was touched but also overwhelmed. I'll have to bring them tons of candy next semester, and throw them a party. If they even bother to come back after I spent an hour trying to get them to read a story in English while the Level Two class had a fiesta with soda and pizza and flan.

Also we learned the word "band" so I was trying to list bands. I'd come up with the Backstreet Boys and Pink Floyd and The Beatles and The Who, and was getting a lot of blank looks, and then Bisifredo chimed in with "The Rolling Stones," and I was thrilled.

Now we have a three week hiatus for Navidad and the new year.

Tomorrow I'm taking a vacation day to go shopping, which I guess makes me officially a girl.