one thing I love about living on the border is the ways in which mexico and the US seep into one another, almost as though no one is paying attention.
Example: I just discovered a fantastic radio station from Mexico called Estereo la Frontera.( FM 101 or so.) It's Sunday morning and they are playing a steady stream of salsa. Is is too early for spicy food and a beer? Yeah, I guess it is.
as I write this I am leaning against a bag of Trader Joe's frozen broccoli, trying to soothe my aching back. It does feel a bit better today.
One of my students is from Africa and today at the library we were learning about how to research priodicals on line. This student sat with his hands folded, looking at the big overhead screen, not touching the computer in front of him. I helped him out a little. "I'm not used to computers," he said. He looked at the keyboard like it was covered in spiders.
I stared at him a little and thought about how I get smacked in the face every once in awhile with stuff like that. Every so often i am reminded of how priviliged I have been...and how others have so much to struggle through to get an education. I feel so grateful that I can be there, and learn from a guy like Joseph. And that I can encourage him to go, go, go.
And that's something I love about teaching.
I bent over my own leg in yoga class and felt a snap deep in between my shoulder blades where there has been a knot for weeks.
very sore
very sore
a draw-in-your-breath kind of hurt
Fridays are my grunt days. I work 5am to 10:45 at Peet's and then I go teach class from 12:40-4. Grunt. Friday nights I just want to lie on my bed, comatose, staring at the ceiling. but tomorrw I have hiking and sushi plans.
What's better than comatose? Hiking and sushi.
don't you hate it when your crush turns out to be married with children? And don't you love it when you go out with a few friends and have a glass of wine and laugh hard and forget that you were feeling sad that everything is so hard right now? And don't you love when you are walking to your car and you think about your niece and nephew and the funny things they say?
I love that.
and I'm here to prove it! I messed and messed until my blog was..a big mess. Now, I'm fixing to fix it.
at my parents house. Went swimming with the niece and nephew. Going to a movie.
Sigh.
I heart mini-vacations.