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Janet, Purdy and I are in the middle of an al...
April 25, 2006 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Janet, Purdy and I are in the middle of an all-Harry Potter film festival. Hopefully we'll be able to finish the next two this week- we all have in congruent schedules that prevent watching more than one film a night. Janet had her real Chinese Film Festival to work last night, so we had to start at 9:00 last night. I'm such an old lady that I couldn't even make it through the Basalisk. Neither of them had ever read a Harry Potter book or watched one of the movies, so I feel quite privileged to be their Potter ambassador.
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Last night my roommate Janet brought home the...
April 20, 2006 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 Last night my roommate Janet brought home the 1983 book "Color Me Beautiful," the catalyst for the Color Draping movement. I'm an Autumn, as you may have guessed from my golden skin, gold-flecked blue eyes, and my honey brown hair. Janet, on the other hand, is teetering between a Winter and Autumn, though the book assures that only redheads can actually teeter between seasons. We spent an hour trying to decide weather her hair was "charcoal black" or "blue black." An important distinction, as she'll have to throw out half of her wardrobe and would like not to throw out the wrong half. But we had fun trying on camel color t-shirts and magenta dresses and trying to determine if we were "pink" or just "ruddy."
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This morning I got a wake-up call from my goo...
April 19, 2006 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 This morning I got a wake-up call from my good friend Mauricio, who is living with his wife in Durham, England and getting his PhD. I helped produce a Spanish radio show with him and a few of his Spanish TA friends last year, and he's starting his own Uruguayan/Argentinian music show in Durham next week. The UK university system is not as engaging as the American system, but he's finding his way. We spent lots of time together last year when he was getting his Master's at the Center for Development Economics.
Anna just returned from a two-day energy audit trip to a dairy and a new UC campus in the San Joaquin Valley. Hearing about the way such simple things as milk cartons are made is amazing. Her job is a little like accompanying Mr. Roger.
April continues to flash before my eyes as I bring more and more work home with me to catch up for my long weekend. But I'm busy in the best way, and excited about this weekend, where every campus group is trying to save the world at the same time. The joyous pressure certainly improves this corner of Massachusetts.
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This is us in the cafe
April 16, 2006 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 This is us in the cafe. Hooray!
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Anna, Emily, Linda, and I just got back from ...
April 16, 2006 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 Anna, Emily, Linda, and I just got back from the Boulangerie, a very nice cafe in Cole Valley where they live in San Francisco. We've had a great weekend, and the weather has been alternatingly sunny and pleasantly rainy. We're going to make a Russian Orthodox Easter dinner with kulich, pascha, beet-dyed easter eggs, and challah for our unobservant Passover observers, i.e. secular yeast-loving Jews. Anna and I decided that I am not going to move to San Francisco in August. We'll see where I will be. Despite the change in plans, the weekend has been worth the red eye flight this evening back to Williamstown. A wonderful Easter and Passover to all from me and Anna, who love you all!
P.S. This lovely picture is of Buddy, my new friend, the undead dog. He appears to have an "auto-immune disease," euphemism for "zombie". Fortunately, he doesn't appear to eat brain, although more than once a good scratching produced handfuls of decomposed dog chunks. He's owned by Anna's family, though they can't bear to touch him.
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I'm going to see Anna this Thursday in San Fr...
April 11, 2006 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 I'm going to see Anna this Thursday in San Francisco. We don't have anything special planned, but it should be a solid visit, and perhaps we'll dye some Easter eggs with her family and spend some time with lovely Luke.
Work is incredibly busy, but very satisfying. Seeing the end of my tenure creeping up has made me desperately nostalgic for the minutiae of happiness that holds this job together- waving to a half a dozen people on our little main street and getting to use college funds for the betterment of the community. Sigh. But I'm looking forward to a real job with a real salary and real benefits. I'd sell babies on the street for dental.
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