I planned and purchased our week’s food yesterday. The pre-bar exam period has been a hodgepodge patchwork of crappy frozen meals and delicious gifted meals from friends, as well as living in filth. I stayed disciplined even though it drives me crazy to wade through piles of dirty laundry and weeks-old food crumbs, and the…
2016 Resolutions
I began this draft of Resolutions in December and forgot all about it, and am pleased to say I have already made some progress on most of these! Read for pleasure, and don’t feel guilty about it. Progress so far: very good, much facilitated by Christmas! I read a forgettable Agatha Christie on my Christmas-gift-Kindle, and…
NOLA Spring
The magnolias are in bloom, already. Early each morning I am woken by a cacophony of birds twittering. The windows in this temporary apartment have no insulation – even when tightly closed and locked, most still have gaps the width of a pinky finger between frame and sill – and so those birds might as…
Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez
*where a Krewe has pictures of its floats for 2016, I link below* Our first parade of the year was Oshun, followed by Cleopatra, both rolling by our house on Jan 29, a Friday. Cleopatra was formerly a West Bank parade, but it moved Uptown, along with most West Bank parades (it’s easier to consolidate…
One Month – Except this took me a week to write, so – Five Weeks
Welp, we’ve been here a month. I’d say it flew by, but it’s more like I get this weird deja vu sense that we never left. This was inevitable, I suppose, given we have moved back into the same house we used to live in (albeit the upstairs unit instead of the downstairs). On the…