I don't often wish I was someplace else. It's just not my nature, I guess because I'm such a here and now sorta person. But this morning I've been thinking about how if I was in Pocatello, Idaho right now I could, in about a half hour, go around the corner to the College Market and get Christie to make me an Americano. I could sit and chat with her and then start my day.
I don't often get too nostalgic about my former life, and I'm well aware that the rosy little picture I have painted in my head of me sitting on the College Market patio is kinda, well, a silly one. After all, it's probably about 20 degrees there, and since it's Idaho there might be wind (haha, might be: I crack myself up sometimes). But, I know that a moment of escapism can be very helpful in times of stress, otherwise known as, yes, you guessed it
TENURE!!!!!!!!!
Have you begun to sense that a certain theme is going to be running through my blog posts? I'll try to keep it under control.
Where do you want to be when the goin' gets tough, and why?
Happy Anniversary
My Loves
Vincent Murphy
Central New York
Rocks!
Spring
Come On!
Awwwwww
I miss my Missy
Better Days
they'll come again
Alicia Vida Billman
is 29 today
This says it all!
Friday noon, you're coming home with me Vinny.
Vincent Murphy?
What!?
Tuesday nights
are gonna change in May
Mr. Murphy
waiting for his haircut
When I get bored
I take pictures of myself in bathrooms
Graphic Boulevard
blown transformers and a tree
Cars in Bergenfield
didn't do well
House on Queen St
with a for sale sign in front of it
Bergenfield
Storm 2010
Vincent Murphy
and his look alike Bob Murphy
Off my back porch
Don't worry I didn't take this pic while falling
Down Kellogg Street
Up Kellogg Street
My house, our cars
Winter 2010
Summer!
I want summer back!
i always want to be sitting on my mom's couch, hanging out with my mom and my sister. we inevitably crack each other up by two of us ganging up on the third and mercilessly making fun of her, and then we switch teams and torment another one of us. when that fun has been exhausted, we laugh ourselves silly making fun of our many crazy relatives.
ReplyDelete[sigh] i wish i were there right now.
Cold, wind, no sunshine. Idaho is a bit bleak at the moment, Pat. It'd be okay if you were here now, though. I'd buy the coffee and we could crucify Helwig or Attebery or somebody.
ReplyDeleteHang in there. Tenure, too, will come. You are too amazing for it not to happen. Have 'em call me. I'll tell 'em.
Did I tell you Hal read the preface to his Twain book (because it mentioned me, believe it or not) and Attebery hugged me last time I was there? Ah, the prodigal daughter returneth . . .
ReplyDeleteSupercrazy, huh?
Well shoot. We better not crucify them, exactly, then.
ReplyDeleteNice that you got a mention in Hal's book. What did he say? He's actually very cool, in a nerdy sort of way.
I actually have darn good memories of most of my time in Poky. I don't know for sure if I would be the prodigal son, however. Twin Falls is still too close, I suspect.
Yeah, it's a bittersweet kinda time, that graduate school. Does this mean you're going to explain the Draney demeanor someday? Maybe when I'm in Idaho this summer we'll talk about it over a cuppa. Hal just said that the idea for his book came from some things that some grad students brought up in a Twain class he taught -- my first grad class while I was still officially an education major, as a matter of fact. Oh those were the days, when I thought that anybody with an undergraduate degree must of course be ten times smarter than me. Take Care
ReplyDeleteSitting on the College Market patio was damn rosy, even when it was chilly. But sitting on your porch in the summer was the best! 'Specially when you were grillin' us up some chicken legs!
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