A Duality to Defy Diana

HAPPINESS

1. cheese

2. tea
3. the professor
4. victoria (s) [both of them make my life sweet]
5. the tasty things vic bakes for me
6. cookie dough
7. my students
8. both of my families
9. thinking of grad school
10. i got a man!
11. altering/decorating my old shirts/dresses so that they ROCK
12. the new neko case album
13. lotses is sending me his old ipod! (<3)
14. dreaming of mozambique
15. pumpkin fries
16. pumpkin bread
17. moonshine
18. haruki murakami
19. my new coat
20. i may only have 4 more months in this country!
21. not teaching classes during my winter break

SADNESS

1. Parkinsons has been gone for 2 months, i keep expecting to see someone wearing her (people here have an affinity for making daniel-boone style hats out of house cats)
2. i didn't get to teach for a full mon-fri week ONCE this quarter because of classes being cancelled for various stupid reasons
3. silence
4. 'radio lesotho' -- the only radio station i get here is mostly fuzzy call in shows and the horrific native music called famu
5. doing laundry in subzero water
6. looking like the little brother in "a christmas story" when i go to bed each night because it's SO COLD
7. being a pariah
8. i may have 6 more months to get through
9. i have no good books to read
10. tuna went from 12 maluti per can to 20 maluti per can (from luxury item to unaffordable)
11. people in USA don't seem to be receiving any of the mail i'm sending
12. the professor isn't pregnant, she's just a slut.
13. my students are completely incapable of problem solving.