someday I'd love to live in a house with bold wallpapers and wood ceilings..

I love Sandra Juto's illustrations and she just added her new pocket calendars to her shop ($4 each or $25 for all 8).

I slept poorly, with my boss’s boss standing beside my bed droning on about who knows what. Oh, wait--I fell like I need to know what. It felt like all the stress of working on the conversion project this past summer, without the benefit of knowing something after. Awoke, if that's the right word, to Sufjan singing "Come Thou Fount," which is the most played song on my iTunes playlist by a hundred plays or so. "Oh to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be." Words to live by today.

I love my family, past the point of pain at times, to a place where irritation and joy and argument and pride (the good kind) all find a more or less comfortable place to stay under the same roof. (More comfortable at times, and at others -- less.) I found an old birthday note my grandfather sent me. Like always, it was not a long emotional letter, but rather a drawing of a stick figure that was saying, “Happy Birthday,” he had scribbled on a page from his prescription pad. My grandfather is one of the giant figures in my life (though not necessarily in stature.) At 90 years old he is still practicing medicine three times a week at the free clinic he started. He passed his medical boards last year which are good through 2015 (which would make him 96 by the time he has to take them again). Amazing. Someday, like in 73 years or sooner, I want to be just like him.



[EDIT: Error. For those of you scoring at home, 27 (my age) plus 73 equals 100. HUMANITIES MAJOR ALERT.



Guess I should start some work and get on with this survival business. Or should I say sur-thrive-al. More soon. Happy Thursday. I can't believe it's already almost the weekend.



the lovely work of Finnish illustrator Sanna Paananen
images via here.

Just some prints I'm obsessed with right now...
My favorite ones are the last ones. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Room without a view

So...I work in a hospital where all the walls are this color:

And my office looks a bit like this- NO WINDOWS. Pretty much the most unaesthetically pleasing atmosphere to work in ever.

Today is blah-no thanks to the crappy pea colored walls and the windowless office I am forced to spend 8 hours of my day in...and to all those out there that get to see the outside world from your desk- be grateful.

the impending Autumn

I find myself wanting to buy warm sweaters and wrap up in them even though it is still 85 outside. I have no desire to savour what is left of Summer. I want the impending Autumn. I stumbled across this amazing picture I would like to share with you all (or maybe just the one person who reads this). Now, I have said often in the previous months that if I ever got married, I wanted to get married in a barn. I have found said barn (see above). Now...where the heck is this barn located? Isn't it cute.

Confession: Grey's Anatomy is ruining my life. Season Five was released on DVD this past Tuesday- and you better believe I was there knocking on Blockbusters door to get the first three discs. Well, every night after my beau leaves for work, I snuggle up in bed and turn on Grey's. Mistake. I find myself staying up til 1 or even later to watch "just one more episode." Lame. I know. I hate to admit that Albert is right, but it seems that Grey's Anatomy might just actually be "female/emotional porn." Urgh. In hopes to wean myself off of it, I am returning the discs today and I am not going to get the rest of the season. Will Power. I need sleep. I should interact with the roommate instead of throwing myself and my emotions in to the lives of mere characters. I'll let you know how it goes.

Ello Love...

London was amazing! I had a fabulous time with the high school students from NEPC and I adored learning about South East Asian culture and religion. The Kid's Club was a smash and we even learned how to sing a praise song in Bujrati (please pardon the incorrect spelling) BOLO! Shopping, site seeing, going to an off-off Broadway mixed martial art musical (i guess that's what it was), group time in the park, traveling on public transportation with 15 other Americans, almost getting hit by a car... the good times just kept on coming. I particularly enjoyed getting to know the missionaries there and meeting the community volunteers (i think the students enjoyed hanging out with the community volunteers as well). Now I'm back at work...and dreaming of my next adventure. Until then...I must work.