5 Things

This meme is like comfort food to me. I return to it when I'm really busy and the semester is getting hectic. I finished my Old English paper on The Wife's Lament--finished it last weekend, actually, but sh! don't tell my classmates. I didn't have the heart to tell them I was almost finished with it when they hadn't gotten started yet. I had my last class today. On Tuesday I took my OE final, which I actually gave myself some breathing room to study for. Not that it helped. I still have to finish my first seminar paper (I'm working with Vogue). That's the biggest stress factor. I'm on page 15 of a 20+ page paper. My kids turned in their portfolios today, which I will also have to grade. I just finished a fund raiser Saturday morning. I leave the country in 10 days for Acapulco. I still need to finish Christmas shopping for the family I adopted through a different nonprofit agency. It's a hazardous time of year. So I pull out the comfortable meme when I'm away from the internet for too long.

5 things in my fridge:
1:margarita mix, which I plan to use with Navy Buddy's leftover high grade tequila. I think that if I had a few limes, I could just add the lime juice to the tequila and it would be the same.
2:the rest of the soup El Hijo made tonight. Holy crap, it's good. It takes him a while, but it is totally worth it.
3:A hunk of Parmesan cheese, wrapped up and waiting to be used.
4:sweet Lebanese bologna--a secret guilty pleasure of mine. I roll it up and have it with pickles and...
5:goat cheese. Not the kind saturated in red wine, which is my favorite cheese ever, but a reasonable substitute. If you run the Lebanese bologna through it, it's even better.

5 things in my closet:
1:My new Kentucky Derby dress. It's black. It's swirly. It's awesome. All it needs is the hat.
2:a fox fur coat that I bought for $16--the steal of a lifetime.
3:a pair of black leather pants by DKNY, another score, which I wore to class one day just to scare the kids. It worked.
4:a really, really warm Navy sweatshirt that I cajoled off of Navy buddy. It's realllly warm.
5:a pair of black boots by Biviel that cost me way too much and bring me compliments every time I put them on.

5 things in my purse:
1:left over student evaluation sheets, not that they know what they're evaluating anyway
2:my ipod, loaded with Rob Zombie
3:an Italian pen given to me by one of my favorite students whom I wrote a letter of recommendation for to go to Italy.
4:extra snacks that I brought to feed the beasts on the last day of our classes
5:receipts that are really supposed to be living at the office--I keep forgetting to take them out.

5 things in my car/truck (only 5 things?!)
1:accumulated goodies for my adopted Christmas family
2:two bottles of pina colada something or others from the time Director/Buddy and I went shopping on Black Friday. I keep forgetting to take them in, too.
3:recycling in the trunk of my car that needs to go where it belongs!
4:papers. lots and lots of papers.
5:a towel. Not sure why. It's one of my good ones, too.

-- Virgil, seven more days left in my semester!