full plate

* new job (fingerprinting, TB testing, new curriculum and colleagues, moving boxes and boxes of classroom stuff, background check, payroll and benefits stuff, making good first impressions and schmoozing with dozens of people… * resigning from old job (this entails MUCH more that you’d think)
* preparing to move in with boyfriend (packing <living with the mess [...]

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I am so psyched to move. We don’t get the apartment until the second weekend in July, but I already have a bunch of my stuff boxed up.
I have gotten so used to living by myself (ok, so it’s only been a little less than 2 years) that at first I was a little worried [...]

Cruel.

I think it is terrible that “Senior” formula cat food only comes in small and medium sized bags, not the uber-big ones that last for months. Why don’t they just print on the label “We don’t want you to be haunted by leftover kitty kibble in the inevitable situation that your cat dies before eating [...]

please don’t let this jinx anything…

I have these two slightly crazy, yet persistent theories about my life:
#1: If I envision horrible things happening, they will not actually happen. Slightly OCD, maybe, but it’s followed me my whole life and I’ve learned to deal with it. Example: out of nowhere I have these horrible visions flash in my mind of falling [...]