So, I have gotten harassed about my lack of recent posting…so since I know at least one person cares, here goes. ^_^
My lack of updates has been largely due to the lack of anything deeply blog-worthy in recent weeks, but upon contemplation, I have participated in a 
few activities of note:
Sunday before last Briggs and I met his sister, brother-in-law and the twins for lunch. We went to The Cheesecake Factory, which I had never been to, despite having worked less than a block away for about a year. The food was overall, very yummy if a bit…just like every other restaurant of that type. However, I do feel inclined to mention the decor…a weird mix of sultan’s palace, Greek temple and art nouveau…they need to rethink their style…and preferably choose just ONE.
Last Sunday, Briggs and I joined his family on a trip to Kennywood
amusement park. The day started out a little meh, but strangely enough, after being utterly drenched in a summer rainstorm, our enjoyment level went up by quite a bit. We rode the Phantom’s Revenge (their giant + fast rollercoaster) twice and almost ran over a groundhog on the tracks of the Thunderbolt (their old-fashioned giant + fast rollercoaster) and overall had a pretty fun time. I got tanner. grr. Stupid summer.
Other than that, life flows along at a rather ordinary pace…I have acres of homework (well…Briggs claims that I have a normal amount of homework that I insist upon doing about twice the necessary amount of work for) and personal projects I long to work on that have to be set aside.
The weather over the last few days had reached the perfect place, where the air is warm yet tinged with a crisp hint of fall and sunlight is golden through softly swaying trees…but today it has returned to oppressive muggy humidity and a temperature near 90 degrees. Ugh.
Yesterday I set homework aside in order to clean — I had been procrastinating my work anyway, not really feeling like working on my more tedious projects, and had been longing to clean the house…but kept
putting it off due to large amounts of homework. Yesterday, I said ‘enough!’ and;
-washed dishes
-cleaned off the coffee table
-bagged up empty plastic bottles
-swept
-bagged or stacked random other forms of stuff to be thrown out (cardboard boxes and the like that tend to accumulate)
-re-organized my bookshelves (a gargantuan task that required scooting books around and finding my various stacks of books around the house and putting them back in their proper places…plus doing the shelving change for my art and comic books that I have been intending to do for almost a year)
-vacuumed the living room
So…I still have homework to be done, but am much happier about the environment in which I am doing it.
Next on the list is loads and loads of laundry. Which I don’t mind so much due to the lovely alliteration.
Not a lot else is new…the cats are getting along fairly well, and Puck is a holy terror but adorable…we are still destitute but as an art student I feel I should come to expect and revel in that status…one of the snails in my fish tank (Gonzeles) is getting so big it may soon escape and go on a rampage…I look forward daily to autumn and am also looking very much forward to going to Penns Colony again. Tonight we may eat lasagna. Briggs and I have been watching Full Metal Panic! and I
have been simultaneously re-watching Full Metal Alchemist (so inspired because we loaded it on Briggs’ step-nephew’s video mp3 player and he LOVES it…score!) and falling in love with the show all over again…and finding myself near tears at Major Maes Hughes’ death all over again…which Briggs has had to hear about at least 3 or 4 times in the past couple days.
I just finished reading Cold Comfort Farm, and it was weird but awesome.
School remains school…some girls are bigger than others and some girls’ classes are better than other girls’ classes (she paraphrased).
And that’s about it. And may the road ahead be lit with dreams and tomorrows…which are lit with dreams. Also.
