Monday -- drove back out to Lamont-Doherty (Columbia's Earth Sciences place). I got the job! Much rejoicing. Came home and applied for an E-ZPass so that I can pay only 1.00 to go over the TappanZee Bridge and not 3.00. Also went to the post office to mail 8, count 'em 8 cards: 3 birthday, 2 graduation, and 3 Mom's Day.

Tuesday -- attended last open reading of the year (sniff -- no more free pizza). Lucy (my current workshop prof and future thesis advisor) read part of her upcoming novel which was unbelievably funny and smart, just like her. All the readings were really good. Next year I have to get my courage up and find something worth reading. Might help if I stopped writing 12,000 word stories.

Wednesday -- Very pretty day. Had lunch out on the grass with Suzanne, Julie, Andrea, Jenny, and Nina. Workshop was weird, on account of everyone being hacked off at Tom for once again backing out of submitting on his assigned turn at the last minute and not wanting to tell him so when he apologized. I have done lots of soul searching about whether I would be more willing to tell him off if he wasn't a quadriplegic, but the truth is I'm not very willing to tell anyone off, so it's a moot point. Suzanne got sort of butchered on her essay, somewhat unfairly, I thought, though I think since the essay was about religion the discussion was a bit extra touchy. I hope her long weekend in San Diego makes up for it.

Thursday -- Had a really good ballet class. Watched TV. Wondered why in Jerry Bruckheimer's shows (CSI and Without a Trace) the older supervisory male and the pretty, up and coming young female are involved with each other. Decide never to work for Jerry Bruckheimer until I turn 40.

Friday -- My EZ Pass came in the mail, so I installed it in the car. Those people work fast. Also contacted a graduating grad student about adopting (it isn't buying since I'm not paying anything for it) her bedframe and boxspring (and possibly mattress). Figure if I can get it now for free it's better than paying for one later, even if I have to move it. Now I just have to figure out how to get it from Tuckahoe to my apartment.

Saturday -- Went into the city and saw Swan Lake on a student ticket. It cost more to ride the train than to see the ballet. Stupid rate hikes. The ballet was really good, except one of the poor swans fell, and even though nothing really happened, now the first thing I'm going to remember about it was the swan falling down. Miranda Weese was a brilliant Odette/Odile, though -- she even characterized her two parts differently. And I think I like Peter Martins' ambiguous ending (the bad guy loses, but because the Prince betrayed her, Odette has to stay a swan) better than the all happy or all sad ones. Then I went uptown to check out a yarn store, and left depressed because to afford enough really great yarn to make a full size sweater, I might as well buy one at J Crew full price. Walking back to the subway I encountered some discount book sellers, and had to resist temptation when one table had every single book published in the last year and a half that's on my wish list. Contented myself with Ian McEwan's Atonement because it was paperback and bought Sandra Cisneros' new novel for Nina's birthday. Came home. Talked to Alex on IM -- my family has returned safely from ND without getting sucked up by a tornado, thank God.

Don't know why I'm in such a mood to catalogue, except that a lot happened this week, and I didn't ever have time to write it down. I'm not making a regular habit of this, so don't worry.