This is just a quick post because I am so damn elated right now.
I was waiting for a book I ordered online to come in the mail, so I wasn’t surprised when Margaret the building manager came and said there was a package waiting for me in the office. But when I got there, not only was a box from Amazon there for me, but there was another package, covered in silver duct tape and scribbles that were unmistakably done by my litter sister.
That right there was enough to send me over the moon, but I didn’t have any idea what it could be that she and my stepdad had sent me. And you know what it was?
Kethup packets. Specifically, 204 Heinze ketchup packets because apparently my complaints about the ketchup here left enough of a mark.
I’m still laughing.
Best. Package. Ever. October 28, 2010
This blog is going to become my Lazarus. October 24, 2010
I would say Jesus, but I feel that would be blasphemous.
However, it’s been some 7 or 8 months since I’ve last updated, and I’d like to get back into the swing of blogging.
And that’s not to say I’ve been doing nothing this whole time. I have an exceptionally active blog on Tumblr (although that’s mostly reblogging pictures and whatnot), and I still like to whip out the pen and diary for special occassions, or when I’m traveling.
On that note, I’ve been doing much of that. I mean, after last spring semester finished, I had to contend with moving from my stepdad’s house in Worcester to my father’s in Brighton (since my mom is not officially with her sister in Rhode Island) which was obnoxious, and then I was at camp in Spencer for the summer (which was equal parts SO MUCH FUN and overly dramatic), and now I’ve been in Cork, Ireland since mid-August (resulting in some trips around here, a weekend jaunt to Scotland, and an upcoming trip to London).
I also have plans to participate in NaNoWriMo next month, which will probably be dominating my writing time, but I still want to poke around here a bit more.
There’s so much to cover, and my natural instinct is to do a total step-by-step recap of it all, but I’m trying to be a little more relaxed in my writing methods. Not the in the frequency, but in the way I flow from topic to topic. I want to be less focused on my rigid, chronological structure and more on connecting the memories and events thematically. I’m hopeful it’ll go a little better.
But till it is time for me to leave another post, I leave you with one of my quotes taped up on my wall:
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
-Mark Twain
