(My 3-d found-objects map of New Orleans is coming along)
Life has been savory good lately. And exhausting. I can't wait to have the chance to give you more details. Stefin and I will be seeing many of you in just barely over a month now. I am so excited. I am having mountains-evergreens-and-glacial-streams withdrawl. Seriously. The murky Mississippi is about to make me break out in hives just looking at it... The weather's been just hovering in the 80s lately and all I want is the crisp coolness of the NW. Oh- and I'm also TREMENDOUSLY excited to see my friends and family. And two of those people I am excited to see are MARRYING EACH OTHER! What wild lives we lead.
Two weeks ago was our Spring Break. I thought we were going camping, but Stefin surprised me with this adorable cabin on Lake Hamilton. ("Boyhood home of Bill Clinton," all the welcome-to signs brag.)
We swam and read Owen Meany and walked around and reLAXed. Took a cruise in a rowboat (S did most of the work).
Since we've been back school hasn't been so bad... except that I'm so tired I've taken to napping on my desk during my planning period 4/5 days out of the week. A dangerous habit to be sure. But my kids are doing pretty well on their final projects... writing books: myths, memoirs, narratives and mysteries. It is good to see them actually getting somewhere.
A delicious meal of "sweetsandbeets and wild onions" we made last week. Accompanied by a bomb-tastic salad involving strawberries, fresh arugula from the container of greens growing on the deck, walnuts and goat cheese.
I'm still not sure what next year will hold. Jefferson Parish is something like 300 MILLION dollars in the hole right now, so lots and lots of cuts are happening next year. My administration has expressed that they would very much like to keep me, but everything is up in the air right now. Not much to do right now but wait and see.
New Orleans was graced this past weekend with a quick-visit from Tim "the ngoni and microtubular man" Werwie. Mostly we just spent our time eating, looking hip and watching live music. Tim found it hard to believe that the many good and free live shows we saw were not an anomaly, and in fact perfectly normal and even, if anything, small in scope for nola. I think he will give us a good review on Rotten Tomatoes.
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