Five things make a post

[sienamystic]

1. I did the first day of the first week of couch to five K on the treadmill at the gym today. Will be doing my best to keep going with it.

2. Resentful that my favorite coffee shop and cupcake supplier will be closing its doors in another month or so. Hopefully they will find a retailer for the cupcakes, as the baker intends to keep on working; still, they lost the lease on their cafe space near me, and I really liked hanging out there.

3. Speaking of, will have to go hole up in a coffee shop this weekend to polish up Paleolithic/Neolithic/Ancient Near East for my class on Monday.

4. Drove out with co-workers to the Homestead Monument about an hour away in Beatrice, NE. Really beautiful area, and an interesting and well-developed museum. The prairie area they keep maintained is one of the oldest around, apparently, and they do a decent job of integrating the Native American perspective into their exhibitions, instead of doing a thoughtless, "and then white people settled here, and it was tough but they were tough also, and they were our ancestors, yay America!"

5. Am plotting how to spend my $25 Amazon gift card. It'll have to wait until next month though, we're broke right now.

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the Homestead Monument. It's one of my favorite things that I did in Nebraska. And that prairie area is where I fell in love with the Nebraska sky. Oh, Nebraska sky, I miss you.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

It's true, the land is just gorgeous out there, and the blue sky from horizon to horizon is just incredible. We went out on a lovely day, too - hot and bright and vivid.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

How is the teaching going?

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

The first day went very well, which of course does nothing to relieve my overall fingernail-chewing, because that's how I operate. But they seem like a nice bunch of kids, and willing to work with me on this journey of stuffing art into their heads.