hello, hello.

my name is christina. this is my blog. i've been a bit absent. and absent-minded. and crazy-minded, too.

can one be a bit absent? how about crazy-minded? hey, this is my blog. i think i can be whatever i want.

adverbs or adjectives or what-have-you can just cease to exist right here, thank you.

let me tell you about my days:

casablanca. for the first time. i don't know how i lived my whole life without it. i can't stop thinking about how beautiful ingrid bergman is. and how she stepped on to that plane and my heart broke.
lots of soup and rice and pasta and warm foods for my freezing cold, casablanca-broken heart.
world market. my love. chocolate. olive oil. a sushi mat. things which just cannot be found in the middle of iowa.
one of my students switches his consonants around between his head and his mouth and things like "foffee" (coffee) and "you shan kit by me, ms. washa" (you can sit by me) come out and make me smile.
snowflakes flew yesterday afternoon for this first time this season. i can't help but to believe it's magic. even when the wind is whipping my crazy hair all over the place and blowing down my sweater, making me freeze, freeze, freeze in the education building which will not have heat for the next three weeks (run-on?)

that's it. love.