commencement

My cohort is participating in tomorrow's graduation ceremony at my college. I thought about attending, after all I have worked hard for it. Then again, I thought about wearing a nice dress under the cap and gown in the 90 degree weather without a chance of shade in the middle of a football field. I'm still entitled to the day off from work, so I decided to stay home and as a reward for my hard work, I will watch tv in the comfort of my AC.

mdl

three out of five

Long weekends are always great, but they always give me a false sense of having an unlimited amount of time. Last Friday I made the following list of the things I wanted to accomplish during this long weekend:

• laundry
• spring cleaning
• hang out with Nao
• Finish final revision
• ship boxes for my trip

So it's Monday ; the laundry bags will have to wait in the same corner until tomorrow and my thesis is staring at me......Well at least I did some much needed drinking and had a really long conversation, two things that weren't in the plans, but what the hell :-)

mdl

watertower

watertower
Originally uploaded by NYCmiri

I decided to do some late spring cleaning this weekend. Nao came over yesterday with Josh and we cleaned, watched office space, drank some hard lemonades and Nao took her traditional nap on my couch. While going through one of my book cases I found this proof I took a few years ago with my Nikon film SLR when I took my first photography course (that explains the bad angle and exposure). I still love this picture, though, it reminds me of Highbridge Park and the neighborhood around it. With the great news of the bridge's reopening in 2009, i love this picture even more.

mdl

Mousse de Maracuya

hmmmmmm........yummy :-P

mouse salad

After a great weekend, despite the rain, I was eager to return to work. My lessons were planned, I had the materials I needed and I was even on time (15 minutes early actually). I also made a special salad for lunch with organic greens, almonds, homemade vinaigrette and chicken. Everything indicated that I would have a good start for this week. Of course, that was too good to be true. At 9:30am one of my co-workers points out that something was moving in my lunch bag. Ms. M, the bravest of the bunch, went to investigate and found a baby mouse eating through my special salad and snack. That was the end of my great Monday. I had to walk up the hill to McDonald’s and get a mediocre salad with mismatch dressing. I hope my day is better tomorrow.

mdl

random stuff........

Having been to Fairway yesterday, I was extremely picky today in the perishable isle at Costco. Nothing looked fresh enough. It was even worse in the cheese section, when the selection of yummy (and extremely fattening) cheeses was reduced to cheddar, mozzarella, American and only one variation of Gouda. But it’s ok, at least I have my veggie burgers, stuffed tilapia and hummus, after all I wouldn’t want my neck to gather any more fat :-)

In other news:

• My love for rainy days was compromised yesterday. my feet were wet and cold, but i guess that's my own fault for wearing sandals.
  
• The Hayden still rocks.
• I'm still in shock after finishing grad school
• only 43 more days till my trip.....cant wait
• confusion - I think I may have stepped into it once again.

mdl

on lashing out at staff meeting......

Today I kinda snapped at someone at work, but don’t worry, it was for a good reason. There was a situation in which a co-worker abused his authority to push his own views. Aside from being unethical, it was insulting, disrespectful and just plain wrong. This person thinks he can sit on his throne, with his unearned status quo and judge things he can’t begin to understand. The saddest part about this is that the person that is supposed to advocate for us (the affected ones) has decided to take an aloof position, maintaining that it’s not as big a deal as we all make it out to be and that it is not personal. This so-called advocate has suggested some sort of mediation that I refuse to be part of unless the mediator is truly neutral to the issue. Anyway, I just needed to vent this experience and I have no clue how the climate at work is gonna be tomorrow. But, frankly I don’t care, I said what I said because I meant it and at least I’m not hiding behind my students to say it.

A Mardsan Giberter for Farfe

see if you can answer the comprehension questions even though this paragraph makes no sense:

do not disturb....

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Originally uploaded by NYCmiri.

Sunday Morning

I guess this is the kind of stuff only parents would do. It is 7:26am on a Sunday morning and I'm already dressed and ready to go. No, it's not a Macy's One Day Sale(you wouldn't catch me dead in one of those), we're going to see Spiderman 3 at 9:15 am in New Rochelle. I promised Duke we would go see it this weekend, not realizing that tickets in Manhattan would sell out a week before. So I have to suck it up and keep my word.

::YAWN::

I opted for not going to bed at all last night, because after finishing a fifteen page paper my brain was too stimulated to rest. Two more weeks of this torture. two more weeks!!

But being awake last night (or this morning rather) gave me time to catch up with E. and and a chance laugh at each other about the silly things we do. Thanx girl, for not judging me...you're not a monkey :-) ...... I also heard a weird pizza analogy and had to endure one more joke about my braces....ha ha

anyway, I'm off to see the Arachnid

Mdl

blue and green....

I recently saw a blue street sign on Jerome Avenue near Lehman College. It sparked my curiosity, so I asked a few native Bronxites if the signs used to be blue in the Bronx. Everyone swore that the signs have always been green and white. After some online research, I found an article on Forgotten-NY that says New York Street signs used to be color-coded by borough, and that the Bronx's color was blue and white up until the mid 80's when the whole city went green. Below is a picture of the blue sign I found on Jerome Ave. and a green one about two blocks away for comparison:

Oh! and no, I wasn't hallucinating...he he