mi profesora del espanol

My Spanish teacher is fabulous. She is so enthusiastic. If you do everything she lists on the homework, you can't fail. Granted it is time consuming, but it works. I hope my enthusiasm rubs off on my students as hers does on me.

(and i don't know how to make accents on the blog - the n in espanol should have a ~ over it.)

Jared Leto

Friday night, I went and saw Chapter 27 at the Nuart. Both Mr. Leto and the director/writer Mr. Schaefer were there to talk afterwards. I wasn't sitting very close and my students will be very upset to learn that I wasn't forward or pushy enough to actually meet Jared Leto. But the talk was good. He was well spoken and carried himself well. And I discovered a great used book store around the corner from the theatre. I found a book of essays by Julia Alvarez (which I didn't buy - but it looked good considering I much prefer novels to short stories) and I bought an Ethan Canin novel. A bonus to the evening was that my friend Super Duper was at the theatre too. It was good to see him.

Parking

I have parking in my building. I didn't know I would get so excited about something so simple, but I am. It makes life so much easier. I got the remote Friday when I got home. When I got home Friday night the remote didn't work - I was so bummed I didn't get to try it out. Saturday, our maintenance man helped me, I have a key that works that I can use until I get a new remote. It is so fabulous. The thing I will miss the most is walking by the coffee shop everyday on my way out.

I want to go grocery shopping for lots of groceries so I can park in MY PARKING SPOT and easily unload them right into the elevator. It is the simple things that make us happy.