10.15.09
Everything is going by so fast!
How did it get to be October ALREADY!!!!! I’m well into school, learning HTML, CSS, MARC, AACR2, and other fascinating acronyms 
. Writing a little haiku, but not much. Not much reading for fun either, though I suspect it’s a time management issue on my part…I’ve become President of North Hall Council, and my new name is Viv. Here’s a new touched- up pic of me, and that’s my fall semester in a nutshell so far…
04.28.09
The black hole
in my brain means no recurrence of my tumor in a year – so woo-hoo! Here I am, sittin’ in my window…
04.19.09
I’m really bad at keeping up, but…
the courseload keeps me busy! I’ll be home this summer, reading for fun, remembering how to knit, writing biographies, learning Spanish and someday Japanese (can’t have Japanese baseball pitchers and not know how to yell at them like I do to our American pitchers, yes?). In the meanwhile, here are some head shots from March’s MRI:
02.28.09
My Humble, Paper-Filled Abode
It’s actually fairly neat, but there’s no stopping the papers on the floor. They will insist on their right to be there, who am I to say no? It’s crowded, but cozy… 
02.11.09
I’m Late with the Update…
that I’m here, immersed in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston! I’m nearly through the third week, and sick of the word “library.” Is that bad?? 
As soon as I can steal my parents’ camera and bring it back here – I can provide pics of my corner single, the large number of Canadian geese making their daytime home on the residence campus, etc. Yes, I’m living on campus, in the only coed dorm (the undergraduate program is all women). It’s funny to see guys on my floor walking out of the shared bathroom in a towel, only to see them later (clothed) in a class. It’s a level of intimacy I hadn’t quite anticipated (I thought there would be separate bathrooms; clearly, I’m getting old). My co-workers told me my Mr. Right would be down here – maybe we’ve passed in the showers. More later.
12.05.08
Cats, tats, and rad hats
Nope, not channeling Dr. Suess today. A Plurk buddy asked about tattoos and photos, and as I’m finally plotting to chop off my remaining hair to match the newly grown in hair lost during radiation, I thought a photo collection was in order. I have real cats, my tattoo (inside right ankle), and some, but not all, of the wonderful hats made for me by various online knitting friends. A million thanks again:)! Love you all!
12.02.08
Do you really think so?
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Your Hair Should Be Blue |
 Wild, brilliant, and out of control. You’re a risk taker with an eye to the future. |
Mind you, I’m mixing four cats together here – two might protect me, while two attack .
50,011!
My final word count as of noon on Sunday, 30 November 2008. Woo-Hoo!! NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is a crazy journey undertaken in November – to produce 50,000 words in 30 days. I have been persona non available (to make up a phrase there, my apologies) during most of November, but I hope to recover and check the blogworld once again. My novel is nowhere near done, but once I turned purple, I just stopped. For now. Oh, I mean I didn’t actually turn purple, my word count bar turned purple.
10.30.08
Boo! A little early
Okay, so it’s not Halloween until tomorrow, but I’m not working tomorrow, so what could I do but dress up today? I thought I’d try for Twiggy this year. The eyelashes are sparkly, but you can’t tell. They went over well . I’m going for a model’s pose, which I am clearly not.
09.17.08
Haiku on the Cheap
A friend of mine gave me a small journal-type book for my haiku poems. When I’m done scribbling on scraps, getting them okayed by two or three critics (I’d say ‘vetted’ if that word hadn’t been flogged to death), I write them nicely in the book. Here are some examples:
Rain pounding through wind
Wakens the restless spirits
They slide between drops.
The heavens observe
Twined bodies drifting nightly
Through their lazy dance.
When a soul is lost
The wind may rage or whisper
And all is silence.
I love this book:)
