Or doing dishes, cleaning the bathroom, feeding Silly, emptying her litterbox, putting away clean clothes, tidying up my desk, updating my portfolio, dusting, mopping, washing walls, painting....
...or writing another paper. But instead (or maybe because i should be doing all those things) i'm thinking about the future instead.
One friend wants me to try thinking about a particular someone in that future, which makes me think, because i really don't know what i think of that idea. He's nice, but i fear i would drive him crazy. (As he's quite a mellow person, that's saying a lot.)
People ask me when i'll be done with this MLA program, and now that i've found out that my dream job actually exists, i of course want it, which may postpone graduating by half a year. (Alas, dream-fulfillment is temporary, of course.)
Other people ask me if i'm going back to Africa when i'm graduated, and i also don't know what i think of that. I'm not against it. I just don't know what i'd do--i mean, i can think of lots of things to do, but none of them really provide income, and getting there takes a nice chunk of change in itself.
So, i'm thinking. I know what i want to do in big-picture, life-motto terms. Finding someone to pay me to do it? That's another story!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
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birding life list (in process!)
- White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia ?) in winter
- Western Wood-Pewee (Contopu sordidulus)
- Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana)
- Western Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma californica)
- Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana)
- Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
- Stellar's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)
- Sparkling Violetear (Colibri coruscans)
- Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)
- Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
- Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
- Pied Crow (Corvus albus)
- Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
- Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
- Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
- Mallard (Anas platyrhynochos)
- male Superb Sunbird (Cinnyris superbus) i think
- Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata)
- Lesser Goldfinch, greenbacked (Carduelis psaltria)
- Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
- Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)
- House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)
- Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus nelsoni)
- Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx califorianus)
- Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
- Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
- Congo African Grey (Psittacus erithacus erithacus)
- Common Garden Bulbul (Pychonotus barbatus)
- Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera)
- Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
- California Towhee, juvenile (Pipilo crissalis)
- California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum)
- Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
- Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
- Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
- Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans)
- Black Crowned Waxbill (Estralida nonnula)
- Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
- Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
- American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
- American Coot (Fulica americana)
- American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)
- African Pygmy-Kingfisher (Ispidina picta)
- Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)
2 comments:
I hear that! Amen.
I think the Africa question is because people pigeonhole other people. I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but it's always nice when you can find a label and stick it on. You walk away from the person thinking you know them at some level and liking the fact that they're stable - they have a label. The "unstable" I-don't-have-all-the-answers-to-the-rest-of-my-life April is a lot less comforting than the Africa April. Because we want stability. We want people to remain stagnant because then we don't have to face the harshness of change.
I think it has officially been "years" now since I've seen you, by the way. Except for at the passing wedding or funeral.
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