humdrum

How sad that "humdrum" denotes something lackluster and uninteresting. It's so fun to say, I say it like a doorbell rings, "HUMMMdrummmm" and the "m" sound tickles my mouth.

Tonight I read my sister my favorite children's stories via webcam and it made me miss home so much I thought I might start crying in the middle of "Where the Wild Things Are." But now that I'm older the gaps between home visits are getting longer. So, I won't be going home until Thanksgiving. That means another month and a half. Lucky for me both of my siblings now have webcams so I don't feel too much like I'm missing out.

Speaking of WTWTA, I just bought the soundtrack on iTunes and I think the quality of my life has fractionally improved. Karen O has a nice voice, even if she is a little nutty on stage (the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on SNL is a good example), and the songs are so whimsical and childlike and exciting, I'm even more anxious to see the film. Let the wild rumpus begin!

Today ends my work-free week. Tomorrow and Friday are both tutoring days. Next week I am expecting a call that will hopefully change all that, in a good way. And Saturday is coffee shop-ing, which I'm falling more in love with even as it's driving me crazy. I hope I won't have to give up my job there if anything else changes, it's such a nice distraction and such a different direction than what I'm doing with tutoring.

I need to put up pictures of my apartment, even if it as not as cute as either of my East Coast friends' abodes, or that of my SacTown love. Hopefully this will be on my wall soon to cheer me up.

Side note - this is the latest I have stayed up in...weeks. Add one glass of wine and you get terrible rambly nonsensical posts such as this.