Wheeee

Man.

It's August. What is up with that? And why does August seem so much later in the year than July? Maybe because August always makes me think of school starting. I don't know.

Where the heck has the year gone? Geeze. I have two months before Halloween. (Well... Actually I have all of August, Spetember and October so.. three but...) I need to plan!

AUGH! I need a theme! And I'm still torn between going to the ressurected DreamCon and holding a party there or holding my own party. And if I just hold my own party, where am I holding it? Is my place big enough? I get /lots/ of people.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And... Stuff. If you're not watching House, you should be. It's good. Ummmm. I don't have much else to say at the moment. I dropped Nightwing. I saw the solicits for October and couldn't stand it. Devin has apparently just stolen a plot for the Teen Titans cartoon and while I love the cartoon... AUGH! Sasha at least is seemingly turning into a super villain and got spiked through the chest at least.

Bleh.

Anyway. I'm flying this evening. I have most of my clothign at home waiting for be packed. I know what I'm going to wear! Wheee!

And now I use my new favorite icon. Because Nightwing rules and hockey rules and Devin Grayson makes me sad.

It occurs to me...

That I've never been able to drag anyone with me out to the farm.

And that's a damned shame. Because it is amazingly beautiful out there.

So, I'm going to borrow Sean's camera and take some pictures. (How sad is that, that I don't have my own camera when I work in the Camera and Photo department?) The amazing thing about that place is that it feels so open without giving me that creepy no hills feeling that Montana gives me.

The sky is amazingly blue. Lake Superior is amazingly cold. The air, though full of evil pollen that makes me sneeze, is amazingly free of junky pollutants.

I really do love it up there. I think some of my more negative feelings about it come from a feeling of enforced isolation when I was younger. (Whether or not that was true. There were some family reunions that were anything but isolated. I just have a bunch of issues from when I was younger about not having the ability to choose where I was located.) I need to be connected to things, to people. I enjoy unplugging some and going far away but on my terms. And not for more than a month at a time.

So. This will be good and I wish it could be for longer. August, I've discovered, is really when things begin to pick back up around here. Vacation becomes amazingly difficult to take in September and once past mid-October, it becomes near impossible for more than a day at a time until March or April. We're ramping up for Christmas already.

I feel tired just thinking about it.

I do miss my family. It will be good to see them and prepare for my sister's wedding next summer.