thursday-things that i need

• an extra hour in the morning
• a personal assistant

or

• a maid

wednesday-things that are orange

tuesday-things that displease me

leaving vermont

monday-things that please me

vermont

friday-things that amuse me

that my parents got home from a month abroad to 90 degree weather, went to open the windows and realized that the storm windows were still on. it was still mostly winter in vermont when they left...

happy long weekend!

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

the great gate at kiev from mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition

wednesday-things that are orange

tuesday-things that displease me

• the construction next to my office: as if having them throw enormous pieces of duct work three stories down into a waiting garbage pile wasn't enough, now they have an ancient generator which they insist on keeping outside, so i can slowly loose my grasp on sanity as it revs at sporadic intervals.
• tim wakefield--though i know that he is nix's favorite.
• this weather pattern of only sunny on workdays that we've had going for a while.

monday-things that please me

commencement season:

just when i'm getting fed up with the traffic and the extra work, i read Sen. Barak Obama's address to Southern New Hampshire University’s senior class, and i remember that this is a great time of year. . .

friday-things that amuse me

yesterday i saw a man in a suit with a briefcase jump a chest high fence to get out of a revolutionary war cemetery.

i have no more information, but i like to think that zombies were after him.

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

the moment between committing to doing something, and actually doing it: between i could dive off that cliff, and taking flight; between i think i'll get a tattoo and the needle touching your skin; between leaning in and that first kiss. . .

wednesday-things that are orange

these are the kitten's toes (in dr. k's shoes). the color, if i remember correctly, is technically "the tasmanian devil made me do it" but they looked pretty orange to us.

tuesday-things that displease me

the lady from cnbc who appeared on the today show this morning to tell us that the reason that gas prices are so high is that there aren't enough refineries.

and those record smashing profits for all the gas companies came from where?

monday-things that please me

my mom.

friday-things that DO NOT amuse me

having to be at work at 7:30 when i commute an hour.

ugh

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

thunder storms--nothing makes me feel like i'm seven years old again quite like lightening in the middle of the night.

wednesday-things that are orange

tuesday-things that displease me

junk mail.

i have stacks of it all over the apartment that i need to go through. i can't throw it away or recycle it or else someone will steal my identity. i get so much mail from crate and barrel you would think they wanted me to apply to their college. plus, someone sold my name and suddenly i get catalogs from the island of white sweaters, and fruit baskets incorporated.

bah!

monday-things that please me

helen mirren

• i love her because she was in caligula, and played Queen Elizabeth II
• i love her for being in calendar girls
• i love her for not being in harry potter or lord of the rings
• and i love her for that "i'll probably drop my chips" line

rent the queen if you haven't already. it is quite remarkable.

friday-things that amuse me

bill bryson

now i know i've mentioned him before, but now that the proposal is in, i have finally gotten the chance to start the life and times of the thunderbolt kid which is marvelous.

so i guess in the interest of not repeating myself, the life and times of the thunderbolt kid amuses me.

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

6 and 0

i am a little in love with that kid

public service announcement

everyone send this boy a birthday card

tell your friends

(verified on snopes)

wednesday-things that are orange

so i woke up 10 minutes before i had to leave the house this morning, so here is a short list of the orange things i saw on my way to work

• an orange volvo station wagon
  
• a stick with orange paint (looked like it had broken off a traffic barrier)
  
• a traffic cone
  
• a very large pocket book
  
• a vest
  
• a stuffed bear hanging from the purse of a woman too old to get away with such an accessory
  
• a utilities truck
  
• the type face on a poster telling me that i could teach english as a foreign language

tuesday-things that displease me

the state of my apartment:

and these were taken on friday

a time i now refer to as "back when the house was clean"

i'll give a prize to whomever can name the most objects in these pictures