what i'm doing

mostly i've been writing about finnie but wow! i've had a lot to do these past few days and weeks. it all seems a little weird since four months ago i was working in a cubicle for a corporation entering data about meat purchases.

today i'm going to school to tell my professor a fairy tale in spanish. i had to prepare three different stories: La Caperucita Roja, La Cenicienta Y Blacanieves y los siete Enanitos. So that's Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. One of these three will also be a written assignment that we complete in class without books or aids. we also have to write and film another fairy tale of our choosing which ended up being Goldilocks and the three bears. so i currently have about seventeen spanish fairy tale creatures swimming around in my head. i feel like telemundo on saturday morning.

but that is excellent because next semester i'm going to be teaching an introductory English class at El Buen Samaritano which is an episcopal mission dedicated to helping immigrating families. they have a food bank and free clinic and english classes with childcare etc... mostly they serve the hispanic population here but there are vietnamese and korean and russian students also. it's on a volunteer basis but the experience is invaluable.

and that's why friday i'm going to the orientation to become an Austin ISD substitute. this will hopefully lead to gainful employment somewhere in the district. because i needs the money! finnie needs the money!

which reminds me of when we went to marfa a couple of weeks ago a man working at the grocery store told us finnie looked like he ate alot. i thought that was a funny thing to say to a group of complete strangers with a baby but the more i think about it, the more i think it was an astute observation. those healthy pink cheeks must come from all that oatmeal and chicken an breastmilks we be feedin' him.