simple joys

i am again back to my routine. yep, the routine where i squeeze every last drop, breath, inch, second, take your pick, out of summer. i figure i will keep posting since i've got all this free time on my hands...though you'll have to accept my earnest admission that these aren't the most intriguing of blogs. i know, i know. but, you'll have to deal because i've got time to talk about wacky stuff now when i may not later and that is precisely why this colossal compilation of blogs has been mounting so quickly lately.

today, this will be brief. got some sleep, so i'll say no to the sarcastic rant and share a few small joys of late:

mutant tomatoes. seriously huge, delicious, life-giving, salivation-inducing, juicy beyond belief, big as my hand, i can't believe i actually like these big red beasts, tomatoes.

i bought all of these for about a buck yesterday. does life in the produce isle get much better?


frosties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no explanation needed here.
it's amazing what an afternoon of listening to linkin park yell into your ears and eating familiar foods will do for the morale.

and of course, the obligatory sunset photo.

the sun is setting further and further left-wards from my window to the world, proof that summer is slowly dying. i have been battling a wacked sense of direction since the day i arrived because it feels like my apartment is facing west, but it's actually facing south. feel free to think i am a lunatic, but my defense is solid: as someone who relied on the mountains at home to tell where in the hell she was going half the time, this is like the chaotic feeling of being jet-lagged. you know, that feeling that you can never quite get your head on straight or properly adjust to the daily routine, except that it never dissipates? i'm utterly spastic in places where i cannot tell which direction i am facing because it totally throws off my sense of what time it is. this, of course, has more serious consequences like me wanting to eat breakfast at 4 in the afternoon, or taking an afternoon snooze at 10:30 in the morning. ya, i know...weird!.

now that this brief post has turned into an odd assortment of my weird idiosyncrasies, hope you're all doing wonderfully! teaching starts tuesday, any cool ideas for ice breakers with kids that don't speak your language? divvy 'em on out!