Hmmm... Where does one begin these things? How about I just pretend that I've been doing this for a long while and that you've read my biography and already have some beginning sense of who I am. That sounds like a plan to me.
I'm off from school at the moment... summer vacation. The action has been pretty much constant, thus far. The two weeks immediately following exams I had planned on just festering. I had no intentions whatsoever of going out or even changing out of my jammie pants for that matter. I just wanted to recover from school. I wound up hanging out with assorted friends, old and new and generally expended very little intellectual energy. My mind had a chance to vegetate at least. Then I took a pre-planned road trip with Andrew (my significant other) to Orlando, where my mother resides. We stayed with her for six days. We had been back the following seven days when I received an upsetting telephone call from mom. She informed me that my Aunt Joyce, her oldest sister, had taken her own life. A day later Andrew and I were in the car headed for Massachusetts. We stayed for about twenty-four hrs. Sometime after we had returned home, Andrew's sister Leslie in Louisiana called and informed us that she wanted to visit the first few days in July. Her daughter Allie tagged along. They were here the first through the fifth. A highlight of the time we spent together was watching the fireworks over D.C. from the roof of our apartment building. It has been three days now since they went home. I have done some cleaning and serious reading after they left. I finished all 870p. of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night and started up American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It's hasn't been what I was expecting, but it is still a pleasurable read.
Now that I have briefly recapped the summer you're up to date. I am spending today in my jammie pants. I have already straightened up a bit and I've done a bit more reading, but I have yet to lose myself in the book because I know that I will have to do the laundry at some point. Well, I think it's about time for me to get back to my life, as much as this has been a fun detour...
-- CrystalShiloh @ 12:45 PM