summertime rolls

now that i have regained somewhat of my mind from this past quarter's teaching "experience," i.e. grading 80 papers, i'm almost ready to start my summer. yes, almost. i have one more paper to write. a long overdue independent study, a holdover from last year's spring. my last hurdle of coursework toward the ph.d. once completed i can officially hold the title of ABD....all but dissertation....or.....all but done essentially. oh, did i mention this needs to be done by thursday at 10pm...um, yeah, details, details.

while trying to sort out that last itty-bitty challenge toward the doctorate, i also still need to write a paper and presentation for a conference i'm attending/presenting in chicago in a mere 10 days. yikes! why did i sign up for this madness? if only i could write on the joys of drinking one of these:

.........mmmmm dale's...........

or one of these:

..........mmm mojitos............

then i'd be set. no mental exertion in that. or too bad i can't do an interpretive dance after drinking one of the aformentioned for my collegues and call it a "presentation." ( and yes, grading and students have driven me to drink....).

but when i'm not drinking my post traumatic classroom stress away, i've been disc golfing with the scarletsparks. it's slowly but surely replacing my skiing detox diet and has reinvigorated the hippie in me....(she always is lurking, laying dormant until a good shakedown street gets cranked on the ipod or the occasional nag champa incense gets lit). there's nothing like throwing the discs around....."it brought peace to my mind in the summertime... and it rolled...."

.....scarletsparks disc golfing on a boulder course......