life is good

there’s so much pressure in my ear right now that i can’t hear or walk straight. it sounds so stupid - ‘ear ache’, but last night it woke me up for 4 hours til 5 am with the most unbearable pain in my recent life. it apparently gets worse at night. damn homey.

i had a rock midterm today and have 4 more next week. would be 5 but i’m dropping one just to not take the midterm.. i feel like death. at least i don’t need my earbuds to block out the library-talkers.

this wouldn’t be so bad - except that in 1 week i get on a plane with a 1-year old to CA and i can’t be on my deathbed when we get there. they’re nice ppl but they would kill me. at least it would be a ritz-carlton death bed..

there’s so so much i need to do.

last week during the soup swap with the other neighborhood mothers, the woman i work for and i realize we have pretty much the exact same taste in food. i took home a container of fresh homemade butternut squash soup that lasted me many a wonderful meal.

friday night there was ‘just some chicken pasta salad’ in the fridge in case i was hungry. and it was in tupperware in case i wasn’t hungry then, but maybe got hungry sometime this week. this ‘just some chicken pasta salad’ turned out to be orzo and capers, sundried tomatoes and all things farmers market. and enough for about 5 meals.

i walked in last night after a hearty 12-hour library session (of which i did work for at least and my roommate gets excited and hands me lasagna from her church ladies - they always cook for her (her mom recently died) and when they found out she had switched to a new roommate who wasn’t crazy who she liked - they made me food too. they baked her cookies and b/c she told them she thinks i ‘eat healthy’ - they baked me low-fat lemon bread.

it’ll be a fridge-stocked full-belly week. i love food.

i also received an unmarked brown box of individually packaged spices. it was a very aromatic box by the time it got here. now i need to find recipes and use my pot and spoon. i went for the expensive one b/c it was a pot/pan/wok/etc. and i need to make something other than wonton soup. though my wonton soup rocks.

okay back to work.