Moving on
Well, that nice 32" Panasonic TV we bought off a gentleman elsewhere in the apartment complex has gone kaput, and so our fifty smackers only got us a little over a month of TV deliciousness. Oh well. Sometimes things don't work out.
Sat down earlier this week and made a budget for my monthly finances, but if I wanna try and keep it I certainly can't buy a new television, especially not a nice one. I hate that LCD TVs are so expensive. I don't have anything against the picture on a CRT, but the things're just so darned huge-- a hundred pounds or more! Looks like either my lower back or my wallet will end up taking a hit.
Oh well. I am attempting to stick with my mantra, "I have achieved an elegant sufficiency and anything additional would be superfluous," but sometimes it's hard, especially when one is forced to downgrade from a 32" TV to a 20".
And, of course, all of the kids at school tell me about their 70" plasmas. *sighs*
The Silence is up for book groups, and more than half of the kids picked it as their first choice. Only 13 of them could be in the group, but I certainly have worked up some enthusiasm for my text in the community. I hope that they enjoy it, and those who began reading it this afternoon expressed their approval. Next step: sending query e-mails to literary agents...
I have been fighting off sickness on and off for three or four weeks now, and while I have yet to truly succumb I've been very tired, achey, and lightheaded over the last day or two. I really need to take it easy this weekend, but it's a difficult thing to do when there's so much to be prepared for next week, and the weeks after that... No longer will I have mornings free to prepare, either, as I'll be teaching test prep workshops in order to get ready for the Stanford Achievement Tests in March.
I hope you all are well. Let me know how you're doing. I miss talking to friends.
Sat down earlier this week and made a budget for my monthly finances, but if I wanna try and keep it I certainly can't buy a new television, especially not a nice one. I hate that LCD TVs are so expensive. I don't have anything against the picture on a CRT, but the things're just so darned huge-- a hundred pounds or more! Looks like either my lower back or my wallet will end up taking a hit.
Oh well. I am attempting to stick with my mantra, "I have achieved an elegant sufficiency and anything additional would be superfluous," but sometimes it's hard, especially when one is forced to downgrade from a 32" TV to a 20".
And, of course, all of the kids at school tell me about their 70" plasmas. *sighs*
The Silence is up for book groups, and more than half of the kids picked it as their first choice. Only 13 of them could be in the group, but I certainly have worked up some enthusiasm for my text in the community. I hope that they enjoy it, and those who began reading it this afternoon expressed their approval. Next step: sending query e-mails to literary agents...
I have been fighting off sickness on and off for three or four weeks now, and while I have yet to truly succumb I've been very tired, achey, and lightheaded over the last day or two. I really need to take it easy this weekend, but it's a difficult thing to do when there's so much to be prepared for next week, and the weeks after that... No longer will I have mornings free to prepare, either, as I'll be teaching test prep workshops in order to get ready for the Stanford Achievement Tests in March.
I hope you all are well. Let me know how you're doing. I miss talking to friends.
posted by Nate at 4:47 PM
2 Comments:
I'd break your knees if those weren't all so damn amusing.
You win this time, NEwK.
(PS: I'm totally going with Belfast and the Furious).
Ums,
Things are pretty well here - I have a third-round job interview this week at Harvard Business School and I think hope pray that the bed bugs that have been the blight of my days have been wrassled into submission by my friendly neighborhood exterminator, Wayne. I've been playing Smash Brothers a lot lately, mostly in anticipation of the upcoming game which I may or may not be able to ACTUALLY get when it comes out. Le sigh.
Can I read The Silence Sebby has when he's finished?
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