You don’t have to worry anymore, guys, I’m not dead. 2011, the year of many transitions, has kept me from blogging. More accurately, all of the reading and writing I have to do for grad school is keeping me from blogging. Since I last posted, Alex and I flew across the country and settled here in Oakland, California. We found a great apartment, full of character, in a 1920′s (pink!) stucco building in North Oakland. We live close to about 7 or 8 coffee shops, a boulangerie with fantastic baguettes (and more good coffee), a few yoga studios, and a bunch of vintage boutiques. Très charmant. Not as much of our apartment is decorated as I would like, but hopefully I can make it happen in little bits and pieces.
Three mornings a week I’m in a classroom at the Mills College lab school with 2 and a half to 3 and a half year olds. I’m in five early education classes, and I audit one dance class (which, I swear, is solely responsible for maintaining my sanity). When I’m not actually in the classroom or in my own classes, you might find me in the library with my nose in any number of books or articles, or clacking away at at one paper or another. I try to sit outside in the sunshine to do my reading as much as possible. The Mills campus is really quite beautiful, and I try to take advantage of the warm California sun as much as possible. On weekends we try to do fun things. We started out using Zipcar all the time, but since decided that freedom and flexibility would be worth the extra pennies to buy a car.
Our new chariot! Gene Carmesan (of course) is a 2010 Toyota Corolla. He’s a champ. So far, with the help of Zipcars, public transit, and Gene, we’ve explored Alcatraz, Muir Woods, the Bear Republic, Russian River, and Lagunitas breweries, Joaquin Miller Park. Gene also took us into San Francisco for a great James Blake concert (not quite as good as the US debut in Williamsburg, have to say…).
My sister, bless her heart, carried Harry on a cross country flight. She’s got the battle wounds to show for it, to be sure. Harry is now comfortable, which means he’s back to being a jerk most of the time. He has his moments:
One of the highlights of my summer (aside from getting married and moving across the country, of course), was receiving Jasmin Ortiz’s fantastic photographs from our June 30 Brooklyn Municipal Building wedding and neighborhood bar festivities. The shot below is just a sneak preview. More will be posted at Emily. Alex. Wedding(s). very soon.
With that, a catch-up post, I will leave you for now – hopefully for not quite so long this time. Have a wonderful weekend!!!
