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June 21, 2007

I Went Shopping Today

and brought home something really unexpected but cool.

See, as of next week, I will have a new office. One that I won't have to give up for an entire year. It's in a quiet building, and though it's a basement office, with a window looking out onto a parking lot, it is an office all my own. And it's next door to the office of my main teaching partner. It's also very far away from almost everything else on campus, including the rooms I teach in, but that's okay. The walk will do me good.

It's also all the way across campus from the gym. The only place further from the gym on campus is student family housing. Ah, well, I'll figure it out.

Anyhoo, because it's my office, and because it's not a temporary arrangement, like my offices this past year, I can actually decorate it as I like. Which means hanging stuff on the walls. I have a couple of pieces to hang: my most recent diploma and a couple of nice prints, but they're all pretty dark and I need some color.

So. I was at the local craft store. (Surprisingly not the only craft store, as we have a really cool store that specializes in knitting and quilting as well.) I was getting matboard because it makes really good book covers (they have a discount bin for the banged up and scuffed stuff). As I was searching for smaller bits that might be hiding in a different aisle (I came home with a bunch of 24" x 36" pieces, which will last me pretty much for the rest of my life, but they were really cheap) I saw an end of aisle display that had me cooing with delight. Because it was little tiny frames shaped like purses, beaded and embroidered in tropical colors. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff.

I bought five. At $5 each, which is kinda steep and pretty much killed the whole "I'm saving money by buying beat up matboard" vibe. Still, they're absolutely precious and will look fantastic as a wall grouping in my office. The only trouble is that they hold 2"x2" photos. I spent lunch editing some of my favorite pix down to size. 22 of my favorite pix. Did I mention that I only bought five frames? Yeah. Now I have some hard decisions to make.

OOOOH! Or I could just buy 17 more frames!!

Anyway, here's the pix I edited. I'm sharing them with you because I care. Even though none of you ungrateful wretches commented on the last two photo postings with the cutest baby pictures ever.

wagon ride.jpgsunflower fauna.jpgit came from the laundry.jpgquickly hiding.jpgallium up close.jpgimogen eyes.jpgup there.jpggaudiness sm.jpgglory.jpgupside down boy.jpgsilver slipper.jpgmysterious katala.jpgpoly gorilla.jpgexhausted imogen.jpgsock 4 crop.jpgparty of 3.jpgQuickly.jpgbackyard clematis.jpg


I took pity on you, by the way, and limited myself to my favorite 18. And that's after adding three pix I hadn't included before. Now I have 25 photos to choose from.

Posted by sally at June 21, 2007 04:48 PM

Comments

I don't want to be mean but commenting here is kinda hard, that is why I only thought "what a freakishly cute and happy baby" as opposed to trying to sign in, having typekey kick me out, trying to sign in again, writing a whole comment, and having it mysteriously dissapear. Typekey eats things.

I heart the one eyed cat.

Posted by: Desiree [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 22, 2007 08:52 AM

Yeah, I know. It's a pain in the ass. I suppose I should risk all the potential spam problems again and turn off moderating. I wish there was a happy medium, but when he put together this account for me, Dave apparently chose the Edsel of web publishing.

I heart the one-eyed cat as well. He is so funny. that top pic was from his adolescence. You will probably not be surprised to hear that almost immediately after I snapped that shot, he smacked me in the head with his paw. He was winding up for that when I took the picture.

Posted by: Sallyacious [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 22, 2007 09:18 PM

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