Ms Carrie Ellen Dunn, MA

so carrie has left the nest.
she partied hard after all the hard work, and the rest of us did what we could to keep up.
and now she's almost ready to go and change the world.
only some packing and a few goodbyes left to take care of...

harrassed

three things cannot be retrieved:

the arrow once sped from the bow
the word spoken in haste
the missed opportunity.

-- ali the lion, caliph of islam
son-in-law of mohammed the prophet


i'm not in a good place right now. extremely freaked out. worried both about self and friends who are facing problems of various kind...so i don't know if there's going to be any posting untill i'm over this hump, out of this hole.
i'm not forgeting about anyone, don't feel insulted if i don't email for a bit.
love,
k.

'>D

accidentally...

a good find in the main library's new arrivals section today. "virginia woolf. the will to create as a woman" by ruth gruber.
incidently, in 1931, aged 20, gruber was the youngest person ever to receive a doctorate. she met woolf when she was 19... an american of jewish origin ruth was born a year before my grandfather daniel f. and the phd was from the university of cologne...where daniel grew up.
he still lived there at the time when she was doing her research. now his granddaughter, a sworn virginia woolf enthusiast, is looking at the picture of ruth gruber on the back cover of her book.

how's that for a story?

k.

przeciez...

1 maja jutro, w paryzu ludzie obdarowuja sie konwaliami a tu u mnie bardzo powoli rozwoj postepuje...roslinny i naukowy.
caly dzien dzisiaj, pracapracapracapraca...tylko wieczorem maly wypad rowerowy, zagladanie ludziom w okna.

nastroj chwilowy: wyciszenie i mile lekkie napiecie miesni
gra: iron and wine
do czytania: new yorker (jestem uzalezniona!)

too busy to be interesting

green is in

no kiddin'

my friends sneaked into my lab...and planted these cheery decorations.
don't they look like something jack the lantern king and sally montage would give to each other?

princesses rule!

aaaaa very merry unbirthday to you, to YOU!

what an evening! i don't know where to start...
maybe first take a look at some of the presents the princess of peppermint received for her unbirthday...





















seriously, i must organize the evening in my head...right now i'm too full of beans to talk about it. if you know what i mean...
k.

youth, you say?

crazy day. moved more stuff from carrie's. cleaned appartment. spring-cleaned the front *and* back yard. raked, weeded, ripped out meters and meters of dry or rotting stuff. clipped branches. cleared winter garbage.
tomorrow i will be rolled around on a special board a la hannibal lecter...muscles are already in shock...
i'm bloody old!
princesses can't be old!

k., princess of peppermint

ps. i took this pic with my webcam. pas mal, n'est pa?

easter weekend

did some work, spent some quality time with girlfriends.

current mood: heavy from all the food
book: 'the best of roald dahl' (his grownup stuff)

Cara the temp2: "the return"

Hi everyone! The jebuz-waffle on my ceiling told me to comemorate my second post (and Easter I suppose) with muppets trying out for the part of yoda. It makes sense to me and I like this better than being told to smite things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOFWN3fxMfE
Plus also I thought I would put up this cartoon because it reminds me of a miniseries I just saw.

-CP

most important day is today!

Happy "I-terminated-Jebuz-Day"!!!
Next year in Jerusalem!

-your friendly neigbourhood heathen

yay!

this just in...first buds in our front lawn!!! i think they're tulips. must clear the dry stuff this weekend...
k.

so those of you who don't live here don't think we're up to our knees in snow all year round...

now for a word from our sponsors...

this one is for d.
and this one is one of my favourite songs ever...

crap, i forgot to go and paint d.'s door with lamb's blood today. sorry nisse! but if you turn off the light that's TWO plagues already!
i had fun today phoning the undergrads and threatening them with final grades witholding if they don't return their archy library books asap. hehehheh.

peppermint k.

i just wanted to add a wee bit about my favourite kind of blogs. well, apart from those published by my close friends, i particularly love blogs about...suprise, suprise...books, which category includes: blogs about books, about books on books, about reading, about writing, about illustrating them (including comics), about or of literary magazines (e.g. new yorker etc.). also i enjoy blogs about art of any kind, but it must be good (i.e. makes my brain tingle with admiration and awe). i've been finding more and more really great ones and now my only problem is to find time to keep up with it all! luckily many are updated only once a week. pheeew!

o.k., now i'm really going to bed.

update

so.
if you've been wondering where i've been for the last several days....i've been very cunningly plotting to take over the world *k. cacles with evil glee* and let me tell you, i'm waaaaay better than pinky and the brain.
but now i've surfaced again and, as d. puts it, i am gracing the department with my presence.
i'm also much cheered by the full development in the spring situation! finally i can go fly a kite on the university bridge! and other such delights...
i also hurry to report that d. had broke out her hooker boots for the first time this season. she says that's cause all her casual outfits are in the laundry. but we won't be fooled. oh no!
in other news, cara, the temp is making another apperance here any day now. stay tuned.

k.

current mood: tired
playing: andrea menard "the velvet devil"

my brain hurts

i will keep away for a bit, i think. well, i have to go visit golder tomorrow so i will probably leave the gift of plague behind...
and the thesis will have to write itself, i guess...
k.