Author Archives: Hannah

Some France for your Friday

Today our office is hosting an open house for other TAs and grad students, which is basically an excuse for us to have a crêpe bar instead of office hours or tutoring. Obviously, this is awesome, and totally the biggest … Continue reading

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Room to breathe.

When I was little, my mom would throw away our stuff. She has always hated clutter, and no one amasses clutter like kids. If you stopped playing with something long enough, if you fell out of love with a hobby, … Continue reading

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Augustober

Sometimes you have one of those wild warm weekends where Summer decides that she can’t go away just yet and she fights away still-weak autumn to reign once more over your day. They leaves are still changing colors, they days … Continue reading

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A lovely shower for a little soul.

In light of my last post about the fruitless pursuit of stupid goals, I feel just a little hypocritical putting this post up, as I am going to now overwhelm you with pictures of the absolute perfection that was Susannah’s … Continue reading

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Mini-Quiches and the Modern Woman

Dear Fellow Over Burdened Modern Women of the World: Why do we make life so many times harder for ourselves than it needs to be? Ok, back up. Let me share a mini-breakdown I had a couple weeks ago. I … Continue reading

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Celebrating.

Over the next month we will be doing a lot of celebrating. A couple weddings, a couple showers, and couple awesome visitors mean that fall will be starting out with great fanfare, pomp, and not a whole lot of sleep. … Continue reading

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Today I am thankful for Chinese takeout and colored pants.

It’s THE WEEKEND. Almost. I’m ending this week on a good note, which is to say, an I am thankful list, something we haven’t done around here in a while, much to my chagrin. I just got so busy standing … Continue reading

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This human thing.

You guys. This week, life got the best of me. It isn’t that anything majorly bad went wrong, other than two speeding tickets ( I know, I know) and the mail situation in our building being so bad that they … Continue reading

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The Last Picnic.

This weekend was the first official one of fall and I breathed a quiet sigh of relief in looking at the weather and seeing that it looks like summer is going to bow out gracefully this year. But obviously, there are … Continue reading

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Lately I need only to stand.

When I was growing up, and being dramatic about something (which happened pretty frequently, and you know you’re not surprised), my mom would tell always tell me the same thing: choose truth. When I insisted that no one loved me … Continue reading

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