CA... again!

while in LA the first time, Catherine told me about all the fun planned for sarah's big 3-0 and i started thinking... wouldn't that be fun to come back and be there for it?! and so for fun i looked up tickets... and they were cheap! so i decided to take smac up on her earlier offer of letting me stay with her and the dave and while in SF i bought my ticket back to LA. and then i realized that i would leave ca and be back in literally like a week and a half! yessssssss!!

so i flew in to burbank, where miss...no dr mrs.... macschwendy picked me up on a tuesday evening (oct 6th). my bag had not made the connection as i knew would happen since i had literally run through the denver airport in my new boots from one end to the other to catch my flight. i had 10 minutes to do that and the only reason i made it was b/c they were waiting on a wheel chair person to get to the plane. lucky i made it since it was the last flight out to burbank that evening!! so with my airline lost bag kit in hand, sarah and i went for some sushi for dinner and then we went back to her house where i got to see the dave.

doesn't she look awesomely scholarly behind the desk?!?!

on wednesday, i had the absolute privelege to hang out with sarah at her school, glendale community college. it is such a pretty campus! it is all spanish and mediterranean styled in the hills of glendale. we stopped by sarah's office and while she doesn't have a window, she does have a great space that is superbly decorated! it was then time for her first class of the day. i didn't want to disturb the class so i took a seat in the back. it was a 2 hour english class (right sarah? i get the two confused, but i think it was english 102??). anyways, she's got a lot of students and they were learning about dehumanization. we looked at several paragraphs from the class' reading and then analyzed them. and then they broke in to small groups and sarah will say she caught me texting... i say they were working in small groups, of which i was observing so i discretely (i thought!) checked my email. and then before i knew it the class was over and sarah and i headed across the bridge to get some coffee and prepare for her next class.

see?! told you she has superb decorating tastes!!


her next class, humanities 120?? again, i forget exactly is team taught though this class sarah did much of the teaching. it totally reminded me of core! dr sarah macschwendy was super duper professional up there in the front of the room discussing sterotypes of men/women and then we discussed (well, really they discussed) mary wollstonecraft and i really felt like i was back in core circa 1997! it really brought me back and it was fun to relearn some of the things that i hadn't thought about in so long. after class, once everyone left the room, i made our beloved dr sarah macschwendy pretend to teach class so that i could get some pics of her in action for everyone! i tried to take them during class, but i had to turn off the flash and be very covert about it b/c i didn't want to embarrass her in front of the students so those pics weren't too good.

at the podium...

from the back of the class... my covert action shot!

i found a school paper and found our sarah in it!

i love this picture of the two of them!

on thursday, sarah let me borrow her car and i went to san clemente to visit courtney, alex, and jessica! i was hoping to meet anthony, but jessica had her aunt in town who was babysitting and so we only had one child at lunch. sad! i got down to OC in fine time and got to see one of my favorite munchkins - alex! it had been almost a year since i'd seen him, but it really didn't seem like that much time had passed... so weird! once i got there, we got alex ready and slowly walked over to the lunch place in the shopping center by courtney's house. alex was very spirited and running around in circles and all over the place... so much energy! at lunch, we found a corner where we could sit and alex could wander around and play and not get in too much trouble. it was so nice to catch up with jess and courtney! it'd been forever since i'd seen jess! for those of you who don't know, i introduced the two of them since they both live in talega and have blond haired little boys just a few months apart in age and are both stay at home moms. i had a feeling they'd get along and i was right! they are now bfs! after a couple glasses of wine, it was time to go and it was time for alex's nap. he ended up sleeping for quite awhile while c & i ate reese's pieces, she baked these blonde brownie goodies, and chatted. then alex awoke enough to come downstairs and sleep on mom for a couple more hours on the couch. so cute.

mr sleepyhead, lola, and alex's mommy

once we woke up, he was mister jumping on cushions and running around. i wish i had his energy!! eventually pete came home... we said hello for a bit and then it was time for me to head back to glendale.

this is the end of part 1. part 2 coming! this blog was getting rather long...