You don't know me at all. (What?)

This week is kicking my ass. I'm helping with an orientation program at school for newcomers to the country. It's been fun, and I like being around the kids again (they are funny), but it is exhausting me. I come home and I'm comatose, then I pass out for a little nap and then I wander around aimlessly for awhile. Good news: tomorrow is the last day of said program and then I have a four-day weekend. However, my long weekend is followed by the beginning of a new school year, which is always a slightly daunting prospect.

However, the new Ben Folds song, featuring Regina Spektor, is totally rocking my world these days, and the video is delightful.



The weather is cool and you can feel summmer giving its last hurrah and autumn rolling in. I'm fine with this. For most people, the new year starts in January, but I feel more renewal in September than I ever do in January. This school year, I'm going to focus on being more tranquil. I find that I'm having a hard time sitting still these days, and my mind is always racing, and that I spend too much trying to cram every free moment in my life with stuff. This year, I want to spend more quiet time knitting, and reading, and not running around. I'm going to be a better, happier me, dammit. ;) I'll try to embrace the East Coast pace a little more in my day-to-day existence.



p.s. I just ordered my red soaring birds Chucks. Woot!