Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Teacher Lady

Oops. I think I'm going to teach College.

Take a look at this electronic mail of destiny:


Does this mean the "G U" word (Grown Up)? I've been making a concentrated effort to "only buy grown up clothes" for the last few months, reigning in every impulse to purchase a galaxy cat dress or plush full-body onesie with ears, in the event of something like this coming up. I really have been trying.
 
But London is just so much FUN!
What do I do now?
Do you think my students will respect me?
 
I think I will require them to bow to me every time they enter and exit the classroom and to address me as "Professor the Dowager Countess Anna Teacher Lady".
Yes, I think that's it.
 
And I shall be feared.

Monday, July 30, 2012

And then Jacob's knee exploded because he ran a half marathon with me.


 
One of the dangers of dating a really quality human is that he might sacrifice his body to spend quality time with you.




Like: hardly train for a rather extended run, then decide to do it with you.




Then get really hurt on mile 11 or so.





Three cheers for finishing, Jacoboo!


I might add... we received "cutest couple award" from a water station officiator.
I mean... look at us.
 
 

Love, lavender, and IT bands,
Banana

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

A few thoughts for today:

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his desserts are small,
That dares not put it to the touch
to gain or lose it all. 
-James Grahame (1612-1650)

"Daring, n. One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security."
-Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) 

"Be bolde, be bolde, and everywhere, be bolde."
-Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) 

I'm sensing a pattern.

Carry

I want to carry you
and for you to carry me
the way voices are said to carry over water.

Just this morning on the shore,
I could hear two people talking quietly
in a rowboat on the far side of the lake.

They were talking about fishing,
then one changed the subject,
and, I swear, they began talking about you.

Billy Collins


that's all, folks

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