say cheese and die--again!

i intern at a literary magnet school mwf. the other day after the practice ISAT a girl was reading this :D .. i totally remember this (and "more stories" and "even more".. specifically the one where the lady gets a bump on her face that gets bigger and bigger and bigger til it explodes with baby spiders)...... my school is facing a "blitz" inspection in a couple weeks so, in addition to other more emotional purging activities, there was a table full of kids books outside our room..... i wanted Goosebumps!(hence the post title)........it wasnt there... apparently its not an actual school read... but i went to the website tonite.. the "classics" have re-done covers tho so they're not so classic anymore are they...... anyway since i couldnt find ones i knew except really young ones illustrated by tomi de paolo i picked up a couple slender novels by the author of roll of thunder hear my cry with pictures of little black children on the front...

but um, otherwise.. it sucked to be a school art therapist today...............................

but then i talked to a staff member who has several hundred of his own books alphabetized framing a lovely new fireplace in a lovely new apartment and he showed me his family portrait in front of his dad's fifteen thousand alphabetized and categorized collection in their dining room.

bittersweet day (cuz i hung out with several staff members off-campus finally... invited to play with the cool kids, ohhh yeahhh.. good move especially after being in the basement all day except for a quick blitzin of the buffet table at lunchtime)

i added a new foam sticker star to the cover of my own journal.. not sure how i feel about it yet... think i will take some paint markers to the navy blue cover around the star.... i decided the navyness with the print made it look biblish from periphery.. so i wanted to alter it a little bit

making me happy today: new friendships and the "generalissimo" episode of 30 rock. and that im goin to vancouver tomorrow and miami/tampa in two weeks...

not making me happy today: i PROMISED to have a certain thingie for my thesis emailed to jimmy today.. i have an hour and a half left of "today".. and i havent packed/washed dishes/blah blah blah and im getting up in 6 hours so im not going to sleep. but i brought that upon myself. priorities.