green acres is the place to be

i'm actually supposed to be in a workshop right now, but there are five counselors outside and i have a splitting headache, so hopefully i won't get in too much trouble for skipping out on four square. i should be given some credit for making it through create-your-own-card accompanied by country music. 

another reason i have been m.i.a. is i've been housesitting for my former boss, and her house gets awful internet reception. or rather, stealing the internet from her neighbors can be a difficult task. i love housesitting at her place, and i really needed the break from my house. the ten or so days spent in bethesda were wonderful (save for a few incidents where the cats brought in animals as gifts - both dead and alive).

j. stayed over a lot, probably more than he should have, but i hate sleeping alone and he does manly things like take out the trash and save me from the half-alive birds i would find in the mornings. he was an enorrrrmous help.

this week i'm back at home, but i haven't unpacked anything. i'm going to make an effort to get my life organized this afternoon, especially because i'm leaving for the weekend (baltimore) and then again on monday (harper's ferry) for a three-day overnight with my campers. i will have been living out of a suitcase for over two weeks by that point. awesome.

but, i'm really looking forward to this weekend. tomorrow i'm splitting right after camp and heading forty minutes north to a city a find myself missing to swim/eat bbq with queers and dance the night away. also, i'll force myself to sleep in since j. won't get off work until noonish. 

hm. what else. oh, well, i have been making friendship bracelets like crazy. my wrist is full of them (ones made my me and ones given to me by campers) and i'm finishing a couple a day. they really relax me and i like doing them during my downtime at camp. 

today j. drove down to camp and surprised me. he took me out to lunch and we went to a.c. moore and stocked up on string to make said bracelets. i just finished a pink one with white hearts that i'm currently wearing, and he picked out this cerulean color for his matching one. aw, cute. my goal for the summer is to make a twenty-string cuff. alyse, a girl who i work with, has one and it pretty much rocks. maybe i'll do that during my overnight. 

last weekend i went to a workshop downtown about the queer community (most specifically trans people) and prison. it was incredibly interesting and i learned a lot. i really want to go to more of the discussions that this group is having, i just have to drag myself down there.

speaking of trans people, i posted on a couple of queer communities about the artist's book i made of my thesis work and was really shocked by the response, which was very hostile. people claimed i was exploiting this poor trans man and using his status as transgender as a hook to sell things and blah blah blah. i got really hurt and really offended, but realized that the people making such a huge deal over something that i believe to be a positive thing are just angry people who will use anything as an excuse to be pissed. it was such an upsetting and frustrating experience. 

anyway, the kids are coming back to homeroom in ten minutes and i shouldn't be pouring my heart out on the ancient eMac that we have in our classroom.