lulu’s life in Granbled

Not much going on this Labor Day weekend. It’s been raining all day, which makes me very happy since that means I will finally be able to sleep and that fall is catching up on us; yesterday, I went to the Global Fest, which is something like an international fair, with food from different countries, shows, music, etc. It was fun! It’s always difficult for me to move my fat and get to actually DO things, but once I am there, I never regret it. Now, I’ve basically been doing homework all day, let’s see: reading about sociolinguistics (beurk) and reading about how to conceive and build new dorms and other buildings on campuses, how to get the money to build them, how to hire a “design-build” team of architects to make the whole project work, and how to involve staff, students, faculty, alumni, sponsors, and donors into the project design and then how to keep communicating with all these people on the progress of things. Yes yes, it SOUNDS boring, but I actually enjoy this kind of stuff, since, if you remember, I used to be an “architectural design” major, since it’s practical and not theoretical, and since i really do want to manage a language school one day. One more thing to be grateful for in your life: there are people who actually LIKE to do such work so you don’t have to do it yourself
Other than that… I cook, all the time, and consequently eat, ALL THE TIME! Considering that I’ve also brought back from Europe at least 10 lbs of swiss and french chocolate and don’t know my new students well enough yet to share it with them, I am now gaining about 1 lb per week and that’s pretty scary.
Happy b-day to Myq (5th), Michele (7th), and David A. (24th)! If you guys were here, I’d cook you some really sweet french dessert OK enough for now, PLEASE write me to let me know how things are going with you all… and I’m going to make some “gougeres” tonight! YUMM!!

new apartment, almost no dogs, school and work start next week, am tired and sort of depressed. miss my family, would love to help my brother through these difficult times, would like to go to my friend’s wedding, would like to like myself a bit more, would love to know what i’m doing with my life. have worked hours and hours on my website, especially the new english 106i pages and also the picture album. pretty cool! in fact, the best page as of now is the one you get when you make a mistake of address on my site. try it, for example http://www.moussu.net/whatever.html

am thinking of going to canada or spain after graduation… but why think of that already??? have looked up purdue and byu in the princeton review of the best universities: byu 3 stars out of 4, purdue 1 star

oh, don’t have a cell phone anymore! but have gotten an answering machine on my home phone and will get dsl in a week. hope it’ll work. if you don’t have my home number, write me (address to the left) and ask for it. gracias. hasta la vista baby.

Hey you! How have you been? How was vacation? Are you ready for the new semester? Did you move to a different apartment? I haven’t heard from you at all–you must be really busy. I’m getting married this Saturday! My family is coming Friday night. Some of my stuff is moved to my new place, but not all of it. As for the ELC–it is so wierd not to be teaching there! I started the translation job today–sort of. Some check-in stuff only. More training tomorrow.