2010

driving back from the beach with the top down; packing my lunch the night before; coming home to a clean house; sleepytime tea before bed; meeting Sarah Butler; finding a place to run at Lake Mackintosh; making pasta salad; the nice lady at the shipping store; letting a kid borrow my Carolina football for recess; my card from Carla that came in the mail; teaching at Clemson; teaching in Colorado in the spring; having Duck Donuts in my desk drawer at work; eating pupusas after work at El Carbonero; talking to Ali; waking up to learn that the Outer Banks didn’t get hit by a hurricane; Dad calling to check on me today; morning conversations with Camden; long drives to help me think; Saturday night at Hannah’s; eating Lucky Charms with Evan and Camden this morning; taking chances; having time to be helpful to Kallie; Amy Milsom; going to Ali’s for dinner in a little while; setting up time to meet with James; Kallie’s mom offering her cabin in the mountains; teaching psychoanalytic theory; SATC season 4; lying in bed thinking; talking to Shanna; Evan being at VIR this weekend; going for a walk with Ali; Sarah; The Filling Station; long talks; the talking lady app; my calendar says things like “massage”; dinner with Sara Kesler this week; living close to friends; Camden being Spiderman for Halloween; The Glass Castle; rereading my NEO-PI; spending time with Amy Singer; grants; LPC; going to lunch with Mom and her quick cherry pit bag; helping Ali with chapter 1; sleeping to the sound of rain; Elysia being back from whatever outdoor thing she was doing; sleeping in tomorrow; time with Evan, Camden, and Shanna; talks; getting away; To Hate Like This is To be Happy Forever; wings and pretzels at O’Malley’s in Sylva; fall leaves; Dianne and the cabin; new iPad apps; sleeping in my own bed; drinking lots of water; not being tired; time with my friends; Tara; Amy Singer running into Mack Dennis; football; fires; clean sheets; going home tomorrow; Evan helping me with my car; talking to Dad tonight about taxes, education, and Rand Paul; my students at Clemson who always brighten my Thursdays; Whitney; working with Tara tomorrow; snow today; putting up the Christmas tree; Ali and Megan spending the night tonight