Snap-Shot

Alex and I are a week away from lift off to vacation and about all my mind can focus on is going over and over the time frame we have left and how we should best use each day to get ready. We have to pack, so I am obsessing over the order in which we should pack things (and by pack, I mean our entire apartment since we are moving less than a week after we get back). Then of course there is packing for the actual trip and how we will manage food once we get there (since we really aren't going to be eating out at all while we are there). And of course, this leaves finances which I need to fully take account of and get a really good picture of where I am at currently and where I will be at when we leave in a week, etc. Like I said, obsessive.

My life currently is simultaneously stressful and mundane, and I feel as though my writing has become redundant, because nothing ever changes. So, as you can imagine, I am having trouble writing something interesting about it. So long as we're being mundane, I could just stick with the usual: the weather. 

It has been good, it rained the night before last so yesterday was cooler than usual, but all and all we've seen sunshine and warmth. Blue skies and little white puffy clouds with a slight breeze is what I can deduce from my view out the window. Summer is all too short here, and though the rain and its smell were a nice reprieve, it brings with it the dread of 6+ months of dreariness. 

There is only so much you can write about the weather though. Mainly that.

Current events is another option: Bernie Mac died at 50, according to the featured articles on Yahoo!, and America came home with the gold in fencing. I don't know anything about Bernie Mac's work, and I once tried fencing at German Camp but I learned more from "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" than I did there. "Thrust, Perry, Thrust, Perry, GOOD!" 

I guess John Edwards had an affair... but I'm not going there.

That's all Yahoo! has given me lately.

Current events here center around how the cops are bad and the hippies hate industry. 

We could try work! Yes work: ..... I framed. People picked up the frames. Some of them didn't like it, so I framed them again and they picked it up again. 

Um.... I tutored too. In math. It was math-tastic.

Alex's work?: All I know is he watches youtube all day and sometimes has a styrofoam punching contest with his coworkers. I'm still not sure how he gets paid for this. Lucky bastard.

School?? Maybe?: I sent in my application and have to get my transcripts in before I head out for vacation (oh, and thank you cards to my two letter writers). Alex isn't in school right now, but he's been assigned to a studio in portland, so he's all set to go to class there. Hopefully we find a place to live too.

Well, I'm out of ideas. This should give you a pretty good picture of life here, though,  I think. I can always elaborate if need be. Just let me know. And I will. Just for you.  

Shopping adventures await, I must take my leave of you. Farewell!