wow no school tomorrow

well, i gave notice at my teaching job and am now embarking on my full time student life!  I am very excited about this semester coming up.  This week I get to take a vacation - I'm off to the Sierra Nevada with my friends Hadley and Tracy.  Should be a blast.  Got a head light today, the kind you put around your head and a couple of pairs of smart socks.  Also found a great pair of slacks at the Out of the Closet spot!  Life is amazing.

chocolate extravaganza

today i redeemed some coupons that my lovely friend ray gave me - first at the chocolate store called bittersweet on college, then crossroads and then alas - pizza rustica - haven't been really following my macro diet as much - but had a blast with selena - i think i have to stay with chocolate - can't give it up!

less stuff more fun

yeah - i'm finally kinda getting it - it feels so good to shed the stuff - someone explained that chronic accumulating is akin to the old hunter gatherer idea - we like to collect stuff instinctively - it must be!

A great day today- sold some clothing - tomorrow will drop off stuff at the east bay depot for creative reuse.


Off to have dinner with friends - and we're making blackberry pie with freshly picked berries!

Dancing is important

I think our society has repressed most of us who are not professionals to avoid expressing ourselves through our bodies and our voices.  In fact, both movement and song are essential in a person's well-being.  I danced tonight and it felt so wonderful - friends played at La Peña - salsa rock very nice.


Tomorrow - bed hunt with selena but first an early morning hike at pt isabel with the doggies

beautiful day at the botanical gardens with lovely people

what a day it has been - though the weather was so grey, we had a great walk up the hill to the botanical gardens with the students - it was cool.  I think everyone enjoyed it - what a world class collection of natural beauty - bliss

i realize i have to get a good camera and i also have to get a bed - looking forward to having fun with both!

BIG CHANGES and today Monterey Bay

I gave notice at Berkeley English Academy - I'm gonna be a full time student at SFSU - while I will miss everyone at the school, I'm super excited about my life as a student.

Please feel free to continue contributing to the blog - however, I am gonna start to treat it as a diary from now on since I won't be teaching and won't have students to work with and share the blog with!

Meantime -
I had a fabulous weekend visiting with my friends Clemencia and Bob Pacelli who are film makers.  They just got a grant to go to Cuba to do a documentary about the changing vernacular in Cuba in the past decade.   Very exciting stuff!  We had a great time together, I miss them already.  We had an amazing dinner last night and ate fish that had just been fished in the Monterey Bay.  Also had a garage sale and sold some stuff - so great.  Am trying to simplify my life!

On my way back to the SF bay area I stopped at a small beach on the Monterey Bay, got in the water for a minute and then sunbathed for about 20 minutes it was such heaven.  I then stopped in Santa Cruz, went to Staff of Life and then - wowee - the Herb Room on Mission Street.  Got some cocoa butter there and some good loose yogi tea!

Walked and ran on the beach - so wonderful.  I just had dinner with my friends - broke my macro diet and actually ate ribs tonight - omg - but chewed and chewed - skipped dessert.  Watched a movie about Jim Morrison - it was so heavy, he reminded me of some characters I have met!