i can't believe people actually live in florida.

I went into work this morning expecting to work a seven hour shift. I left thirteen and a half hours later. OW OW OW.

xox

As a Central Pennsylvanian, I have a pesky habit of dropping "to be" from my sentences. A popular example of this is, instead of saying "The car needs to be washed" I would say, "The car needs washed".

I am now finding that the same speech fault translates quite nicely to my writing. Reading over my paper draft, I found thirty two incidents of dropping the "to be". My paper is now a full page longer. Thanks, grammar!

I am. So. Cold. It's already down to 32 and it's only 6pm. I wish we had heat. The end.

dear east coast,

what the fuck, it's going to get up to 60 while i'm visiting? where are my frosty winters?

love, kathryn

dear global warming,

joke's over, we get it, it's not funny. i do not want to move to the yukon and pray for flurries when i get older.

kathryn

Here´s the latest.

My computer died hard a week and a half ago, and now I have a shiny new one. It´s adorable. Hooray. Firefox let's me download a Spanish online dictionary, so now I am unstoppable with my online homework. Take that!

I started serving at VQ which makes me hurt, a lot. I worked from 8am-3pm this morning and I'm on a brief break which ends in about fifteen minutes. Damn. So instead of trying to crank out another round of web homework, I'll post to livejournal, because I'm a little bit stupid. Oh well.

I'll be in Philadelphia next weekend, and I cannot wait.

best meal ever: gnocchi+two fried eggs+tomato sauce

Radiofrequency Ablation

Because - ouch, my leg hurts.

Second year in Oregon:

It's very interesting to stand on my porch and watch it rain. I now know that it's not going to pass in a few hours. It will be some degree of damp for the next six months. I remember dry days, I think, but I'm not sure if they are from May or November.

I wonder if it is entirely selfish of me to up and transfer schools AGAIN. Why don't I just retrieve a degree from PSU in linguistics and then go to a much more refined school for my graduate work. It's not like PSU will have me do a thesis. Re-evaluating my entire plan. I still hold hope that one day, my license will carry a flattering picture of myself.

I got promoted to server at VQ. Meaning that, five shifts a week, I host, but now I have two shifts of serving, increasing as needed. It makes me want to stay. I like this job, I like it a lot.

The laundromat permanently pressed wrinkles into all of my skirts last week. I now am going to wash my clothes at home and pray that they hang dry in time. And go shopping after work tomorrow and hopefully acquire some wrinkle-free skirts for a song. Plus buy a button down work shirt and some shoes that don't have such a fancy for suctioning water up into them.

Two weeks until Philadelphia. My Christmas present will be many meals and some new clothes. I am excited (and well aware that Christmas is much further off, but damnit- this is just how my family does things).

I think I may start washing my hair more than once a week. I'll let you know how that goes.

fun things to hear at the dentist:

"oh, did i hit a nerve? when that happened to me i almost shit myself"
(after gauze has mysteriously been packed into my mouth, removed, and repacked for a few minutes when the professor finally wanders over)"oh, i see you've got some hemorrhaging going on. you know, when you take the impression, that's just going to start up again."

things i like right now:

sewing
sleeping
heat
bathing
reading
eating (lemon curd and soup especially)
work at VQ

things i don't like right now:

basically everything else

$254!! roundtrip! INCLUDING TAXES.

i am leaving for philly on thursday, nov 23rd and returning monday, nov 27. THIS IS SO AWESOME.

Oh man oh man oh man.

It looks like I'm going to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving. Where my dad and I will stuff ourselves with vegan Chinese food from Harmony, go snack at the Reading Terminal, visit all the delicious Italian markets for hoagies and cannolis and check out Temple. Which is super close to Fishtown. Where I have a perverse desire to live. Oh yeah, and cheesesteaks and soft pretzels from the source.

This is glee like it's never been seen before.

this egg cost us somewhere between $200-$300.

i made it through the night. which sounds melodramatic, but based on how i felt last night, is not so much. melodramatic, that is.

i spent all night being either feverishly over-heated or shivering. everything was spinning and my lungs were aching from how much i was coughing. but i got better overnight. which is good. i took today off from work, took yesterday off from school, so i should be at the top of my game by tomorrow.

soup is really good. sleep is pretty awesome as well.
the end.

i am so sick right now.

Note to self: don't meet any more people named Drew.

I called a Drew W thinking it was a different Drew W. The difference between them is one is a former housemate and the other is a fellow student and coworker. I meant to call my old coworker, and ended up calling my former housemate. It was a good five minutes into the conversation before I realized what was going on, and then to be polite I ended up talking for another half hour. It was good to catch up. Then I called the right Drew, to invite him out for brunch tomorrow, and it turns out he's leaving town for two months! Tomorrow! So now I'm about to pump up my tires and head over to southeast to say goodbye.

And if you read this before tomorrow and live in Portland, come to brunch tomorrow. Cup and Saucer on Killingsworth. I'm not sure how many people are coming, but man. It looks like double digits. I'm excited. Lack of brunch dates all summer really come back and hit you when you start up the breakfast club again.

Cocina Mexicana O Historia Gastronomica de la Ciudad de Mexico by Salvador Novo seems like the most awesome book I've ever laid my paws on. Yeah, I'm that excited about it that I figured I should send messages from school saying that if you can find it, read it. The end. Now I study El Mundo Laboral. Yay.

the snow fairies sampled the penn state fight song for one of theirs. hearing that and dealing with the subsequent cold sweat confirms the fact that i will never transfer back to the greater PSU.

this term is pretty neat. i have a twenty page research paper! the proposal and rough bibliography are due next tuesday, and here's my idea: research ancient mayan food culture (as in pre-1520s). their agricultural systems, and the role food played in religious, cultural and social contexts. multnomah county library has a limit on how many holds you can place. 15! jerks. but they will ship the books to the north portland library. hooray.

I found these plums on Failing between Mississippi and Albina. I brought home about three pounds of them.

( and this is what i made! )