3 samosas, 5 oranges, 1/2 of amazing corn chips from the farmer's market!
i've returned to reading more poetry. i thought i could get in the habit of watching movies more, but i never returned to it. i started with calcutta, but that's as for as i got. zach has an on-going service that is filling up a thumb drive full of movies i should watch. right now he is walking around in doggy print boxers and a bright purple shirt. he told me this morning that his favorite thing to do is wake up! and then watch a movie! and then go back to sleep.
i had my first day of volunteering at the conservatory of flowers this week. i'm really excited for it! they assigned me to work in the "highlands gallery" which is a mostly temperate/cool greenhouse with a lot of orchids. I'll be working with so many orchids. i have never fancied orchids that much, but it is a growing interest since one of my horticultural teachers is an orchid specialist and he's re-introduced them in a much more interesting light. it also helps to see the amazing varieties of the orchidaceae family. it kind of makes you abhor the monoculture of varieties that are available in nurseries. anyway, my project there is a creating a plant list of their specimens in the gallery and also a botanical reference for the plant list.
photography? it's coming along slowly. i have a good number of photos to edit down from this winter and i think i'd like to revisit older photographs to put into this new body of work. i have a photograph at the 40th anniversary exhibition at hampshire college. strange.
i am working 40+ these days. it's good right now. it makes me value the life i have outside of work, but i also enjoy having a job that i am engaged with. it's a lot on my plate, maybe to the point where i am not as emotionally available as i'd like to be because i am in go-go mode trying to get a lot done. but i am young and i like being fierce.
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