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March 20, 2008

Egging Me On

Is it Thursday? Wow. How did we get here? And why isn't it Friday yet?

I should be focusing right now- on work, on school, on anything other than the things that my brain has chosen to seize upon. Sometimes you just can't control how your emotions attach onto simple, tentative things. Vague enough for you? I think so. Good.

Funny little coincidences and life collisions have been happening as of late. I have been learning that New York is much smaller than I had ever imagined. Sometimes, private life and professional life bump into each other in weird ways. I'm not one of those people who prefers all private life to be separate (or, of course, I wouldn't have this here blog), but I do think that in recent years I have made an effort to widen the gap a bit, which is why it's weird and uncomfortable but at the same time incredibly humorous when my two lives run into one another accidentally. Do people divide their private and professional lives more with age?

Mostly, though, life is the same as always and I have nothing new to report. Irving still crams his face into my neck when I get home, Olga still hates Olive and Alexis still loves his groaty Duane Reade Easter candy. The only thing different is that I have been walking around like a zombie seized with anxiety these past few days. The muscles right below my rib cage are permanently knotted and I am so tired of waking up at 5am to finish work that I was too dead to complete the night before. And, of course, if I could focus more on the tasks at hand, all of that stuff that I didn't finish in the evening would have been done by now.

Oh yes, and I got a haircut last week. I decided to go short(er), as all I had been doing was pulling my hair back into a bun each day. The cut didn't quite come out as I had planned, though it's not entirely awful, except when I got into the office the next day the undergraduate students that I work with were all, "Wow, your haircut makes you look so much older. Like older in more mature, though, not like old as in old." And that is when I looked at these barely twenty-year-olds whom I love dearly and thought to myself, "I must look ancient with this haircut."

Oh well. Where's my Easter basket?

Posted by callalillie at March 20, 2008 3:04 AM | Random

COMMENTS

"Alexis still loves his groaty Duane Reade Easter candy" LOL!

Posted by: Catnip at March 20, 2008 1:26 PM

What, no Peeps?

Posted by: jane at March 20, 2008 2:41 PM

I include peeps in the "groaty Duane Reade candy" category.

Posted by: corie at March 20, 2008 2:44 PM

AHEM! Cadbury Mini-egges are NOT groaty.

Posted by: Nicole at March 20, 2008 2:55 PM

Mmmmm, Cadbury Eggs, black jelly beans and marshmalllow eggs. Easter sugar high.
Haircuts are risky business. Mine is way longer than it should be until I get my nerve up for the big snip. Just suck down a Cadbury Egg and you'll feel much better. Really!

Posted by: Vickie at March 20, 2008 5:20 PM

The haircut will grow on you -- I went from shoulder-length to pixie last year. I promise it just takes a bit of time.

Posted by: Sara at March 20, 2008 6:41 PM

Can you guys come to the video shoot for the Brooklyn Blog Video on March 29th in DUMBO. Pick a 90 minute slot that works for you between 11 and 7. It's for the Blogfest (may 8th) Hope you long-time,early brooklyn bloggers can be in it. Louise

Posted by: otbkb at March 21, 2008 3:45 AM

fyi, I remember you posting about looking for a good place to get your hair done, once a long time ago. I dunno if you found someone, but I finally - after 8 years - have found the perfect person - she works out of her house in the east village. I'm sure this new haircut looks great and will grow on you, but the next time, google Styles On B and you'll find Stacy's site. she's awesome, I've refered several friends already. you do have to make appointments several weeks in advance, though.

Posted by: kelly at March 21, 2008 10:23 AM