- Penelope and I ran 5 days this week! Most of the time from about 6-7 in the morning. This is generally horrifyingly early if I don't go to bed by 5 pm the night before (which never happens, to my GREATEST dismay), but I've found that that hour of running when everything is still and quiet, and the horizon is still on the cusp of turning from pinkish grey to brilliant orange, is essential for my sanity. There is a world outside of the library. Who would have known?
- For the last week and a half, I've been substitute teaching the Latin V class at Preston's school, and it has been fantastic. Graduate school has been a struggle for me, and I leave at least fifty percent of my classes feeling stupid and worthless. Which is AWESOME. Teaching, on the other hand, has the opposite effect; it's a role I fall into very naturally, and which I really, really enjoy. Honestly, I think I'm good at it. And I have about zero self-confidence, so the fact that I just admitted that to The Magical Land of Internet is saying a lot.
- Penelope and I had dirty martinis at my favorite bar last night, and they were scrumptious.
- There was a new 30 Rock this week. That makes EVERY DAY better.
- Our fancy professional wedding photos came yesterday! To be scanned and put on Flickr imminently.
- I think I passed my French exam yesterday (knock on wood).
Saturday, February 28, 2009
This Week: The Good
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Congrats on the TA position! I am sure doing something that a) you know you're good at and b) you know you want to be doing for the future will help a lot in terms of life happiness. Also, only taking 2 classes sounds awesome. Here, if I got a TA position as a Master's student, I'd just be taking 4 classes and TAing on the side. But I would sort of get paid. And 2nd year Ph.D students take 3 classes and TA.
ReplyDeleteAlso, re: the tire: not sure if this helps, but when I got my Jeep there was a slow leak in one of the tires. Luke, who is magical, fixed it for cheap. This is what he did: he bought a tire-plugging kit at Advance (not sure I can be more specific--there is this very thick gummy rubbery strip that goes into and on the tire, and a little metal rod thing that pushes it into the hole). Then he got an empty Windex bottle and filled it with soapy water. Then he squirted the water all over the tire. The leak caused bubbles to form (!) so that we could find the source of the leak. It turned out to be a nail I'd picked up somewhere, so he pulled it out. (This was hard. I mean, Luke was fencing 4-5 days a week and was pretty buff, and he struggled to get it out.) Then once the nail was out he plugged the hole with the kit he bought at Advance for like 15$. Ta Da, a tire that worked perfectly until I sold the car a year later.
So...yeah. I don't know if you are DIY like that, but even if you take it to a mechanic, see if you can just plug the tire instead of having to get a brand new one. It would probably not take them long.