As much as I've been enjoying my newfound love of recording my life with pictures, my first love is writing. So here I am, once again, writing about my life. I have a few bits and pieces that I am editing into longer posts for this blog, but for now I just wanted to stop by for a brief update. No editing and agonising over the perfect wording and sentences that are a manageable length. Tonight it's just quick and dirty, bullet points and bad grammar.
- I now have a job nannying for two beautiful baby girls. Obviously I am very happy to have some money coming in as I am incapable of living frugally (In my mind money only exists to be spent...so why not wait to spend money on boring bills when I can spend it on a cute new dress today? Clearly, I have not yet grasped the concept of bills), but I am also very excited to be spending my days with such cuteness. If I ever experience cuteness withdrawal, I start to go a little crazy - like buying kittens or choosing baby names. So this job will keep me in constant supply of cuteness.
- I am once again attempting NaNoWriMo. You have to give me credit for trying after three consecutive failures, each one more pathetic than the one before. Last year I'm not even sure I made it to 5000 words. And yet here I am - another November and another attempt at writing a novel (or at least 50,000 words). I almost can't remember how I did it all those years in high school. This year I have enlisted Hugh to be my wordcount moderator and he has promised to hound me everyday until I make my quota.
- Speaking of Hugh, this whole having a boyfriend thing is actually pretty great. One of the best (and most useful) perks - I get a foolproof wake up call every morning. He knows that I lie when he asks if I'm out of bed so he makes me put the kettle on and brush my teeth while he's on the phone. I am someone who sleeps through multiple alarms and is so braindead before coffee that she will try to lie down 'just for 5 more minutes' even if she's already twenty minutes late for class. So the boyfriend-wake-up-call is just what I need.
- There really isn't that much else going on in my life. I now have 4 different London library cards. Kensington & Chelsea public libraries, Senate House University of London library, King's College library, and the British Library. As someone who loves libraries, I am quite proud of this. I am also proud of my growing number of university cards - Syracuse, Oxford, King's. As I plan on continuing in academia for my career, a collection of university cards is like a CV in my wallet.
- It's snowing in Munich. This isn't an update on my life as I live in London, but Hugh is currently living in Munich so he sent me pictures of his street all covered in snow. It definitely made me miss snow days on the farm - drinking hot cocoa while wrapped in a blanket and watching the snow fall outside the window. Unfortunately it doesn't really snow in London, maybe once a year and then only an inch or so. I guess I can hope for a white Christmas in Maryland. There has been some crazy weather in recent years (blizzards the past two winters and now Frankenstorm) so maybe it's not as unlikely as you would think.
Ok, I'm rambling now. It feels good. I miss this kind of blogging...well, not too much. I think it's still best to edit my rambling down to some coherent thoughts on a single theme. But the occasional ramble through my thicket of unedited thoughts is kind of nice.
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