eleneariel: (hope)
Evidently I was pretty stressed indeed in my last post, for I discovered an alarming amount of errors in word usage.

Then again, some would say that's normal.

"Like" for "light" is not normal. Really. Not even for me.

I randomly ran into Joe Hardin while I was lurking--yes, lurking--in the vestibule of Bld. 500, partly trying to work out my nerves by being in the building and partly for other reasons. I'd forgotten he teaches at the alt. education school now instead of TYA. He hadn't seen me for a good year or more, but he remembered and asked, "So, what brings you up here" and watched as I went speechless trying to come up with something that didn't sound insane.

I'm not so nervous anymore. It's just another thing to get through. Those who like me will like me--and those who don't won't, and it doesn't matter. Besides, realistically, I know there's no way I can mess up too badly, short of fainting, which I don't do. Being less than brilliant isn't as embarrassing as being incompetent, which I am not.
eleneariel: (library)
I think the next two weeks are going to be insanely busy. Massive book moving is approaching.

Rapidly.

The mock dress rehearsal for Reader's Theatre was tonight. Drama in public does not come naturally to me, but the others seemed to assume that my serious and ernest reading (as apposed to the ham I thought I was being) of Hymn to Ham was effective. (It is a very important and necessary piece of imformation that the jam was blackberry jam, darnit, even if you don't see it at first!)

A hundred a ten cadets are going to attend; Sgt. Cox is coming, Sgt. Pidgeon said he's coming. Plus various friends and relations. Should be interesting.

Oh, Ramon is going to be reading "How to Make Elephant Stew" with a French chef's accent. It is quite the funniest thing I've seen in a good while. Between that and the posh English accent Phillip is adopting for Green Eggs and Ham...wish I were accentedly gifted.

So I wondered around the base trying to look like I knew what I was doing, and I got lost twice, and I suddenly felt very self-conscious when I realized that every one of the cadets I saw has passed through my library many times and yes, they all look alike to me but I'm sure I'm recognizable. Yipes. Also, I went into a building that I thought was an office and was actually a dorm. Oops.

Incoherence reigns and there is work to be done; I shall be gone. *poof*
eleneariel: (east of the sun)
I've been meaning to post for most of the week, but there just hasn't been much to say that isn't work related, and really, who besides me and mine really care about that? [Note: that's a rhetorical question. Don't answer!]

Besides work, I can only think of two things worth mentioning at all, and they are worth only very small mentions.

Number one: I love my hair. This new bouncy-curly-wave thing is definitely for me.

Number two: I love to watch the Thunderbird Youth Academy do their marching drills. I encountered two troops of them on Park St. this morning...four rows square of marching boys, the flag bearer in the front, and a sergeant off to the side. Of course I had to slow down and see if I recognized anyone.

It was such a beautiful morning, too--so crisp and clear and sunny.
Exhilaratingly cool, not cold. It was the kind of morning that made me thrilled to be alive and yes, awake for it. I hope every one of those boys out there marching realized what a beautiful thing it was and Who made it so.

I almost wished I could join them, marching--LEFTrightLEFTright...LEFT...LEFT...LEFTright--in the morning sun. Instead I am working under florencent lights, but outside the window I can still see the sun.

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