I have a couple friends who started doing the
365 project at the beginning of the year, posting photographs and mini-stories about their lives on Facebook for the last several months, missing some days but keeping up with it for the most part. I have found these glimpses into their everyday lives interesting and insightful and have watched as photos vary from the mundane to the artistic to the reflective. Knowing that I often wonder where my year disappears to, I decided to participate in this same photographic reflection process but, instead of beginning on January 1st, I'm going to measure my year beginning with my birthday.
Well...I
was.
Having spent the last week trying to cram a 3 bedroom apartment plus storage into 350 square feet, I haven't really had the time since my birthday on Friday to write anything up. I have taken pictures, though. This will be a posting for the last few days all in one.
August 27, 2010 - Day 1
This is a photograph of the stained glass window in the living room of our new apartment in the dorm. It's a fleur de lys so it's perfect for us Francophile Saints Fans and the light that comes through it in the afternoon is gorgeous. I took this at 6 in the morning when I couldn't sleep because I was so panicked about finishing moving (we haven't yet.)
This is the initial clutter in the room from the first night we stayed at the dorm - you get a better idea of how the stained glass looks in this photo. It has since gotten worse (see below.)
These are the
Zillycakes that Billy bought me as a birthday cake to make up for the fact that, with the move, we could no longer go on the weekend trip we had been planning. I had purchased two tickets to see
Captain Von Trapp himself in
The Tempest in Stratford, Ontario but they were for the 8pm showing so we would have had to drive the three hours to get there, see the play, stay in a hotel, and come back the next morning. This wasn't feasible considering we hadn't entirely moved out of our apartment and the girls were supposed to move in on the 29th.
Zillycakes has an awesome cupcake bar so Billy got me a veritable buffet here. The top left one is Sangria, the bottom left is peach amaretto, the top right is red velvet cake, and the bottom right is Rocky Road. They are awesome!
After having to forgo our trip to Stratford, we went out to dinner with our friends Kristin and Mike to Dave & Buster's (classy!) I am a fan of skee-ball and this is Kristin playing her favorite game - Deal or No Deal. She especially likes yelling, "No Deal!" It tickles me.
August 28, 2010 - Day 2
The clutter. You try condensing a three bedroom apartment to a living room and a bedroom and we'll talk. I don't know when this is going to get unpacked. Sigh.
August 29, 2010 - Day 3
This is the chair in the common room that I've been sitting in all day in between helping students move in and giving mini-tours to current Sem people, students, etc. I got a little lesson planning done so that's something, I suppose...
This is going to be a rough year, isn't it?
