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yo and stuff
Aug. 15th, 2004 04:50 pmAm home! Still have no reliable internet though, as my parents are switching to wireless DSL along with upgrading the hard drive and replacing the printer. Theoretically the wireless gets turned on tomorrow. The new hardware stuff is all here and functional... and our printer is scary. It prints and it copies and it's also a fax machine. Yikes!
So we spent two half days with Ardis in the Twin Cities, and then drove to Denison to visit Grandma Doris, who is getting dottier by the year. I love her to pieces, and it's sad to remember her the way she was when I was ten and compare it to her current behavior.
And then we drove home in two days. And here I am, back in good old New Jersey.
On Saturday I'll head back up to Ithaca.
In writing news, "Secrets" is progressing, and I did a preliminary edit of "Heritage," my evil Gormenghast story, and printed it out to wait for the Editing Pen of Death (TM) to get ready. (In other words, I leave it alone for a couple days until I can give it a somewhat unbiased looking-over. Yes, I am a little bit obsessive about my editing.)
Susan and I did lunch today, which was fun. She's looking into getting a job at a local preschool for this fall, and trying to sort out what exactly she wants to do with her post-college life. See, she's an art major, but she isn't sure that's what she wants to do as a career, per se. So she's not going to grad school right off.
Cat, my other best friend, is in Athens, the [unprintable] lucky skunk. She's not actually there because of the Olympics -- she's doing some sort of archaeologically-related tour-guide internship thingy that has something to do with the Acropolis... I think... -- but she's going to be attending some of the games anyway. *is madly envious*
And that would be all for now.
Oh, except that as a native New Jersey citizen? I'd just like to say that we had no idea about McGreevey either. And are quite surprised. And embarrassed. Usually our politicians have shady Mafia connections or false tax returns, not adulterous gay sex scandals. *shakes head*
So we spent two half days with Ardis in the Twin Cities, and then drove to Denison to visit Grandma Doris, who is getting dottier by the year. I love her to pieces, and it's sad to remember her the way she was when I was ten and compare it to her current behavior.
And then we drove home in two days. And here I am, back in good old New Jersey.
On Saturday I'll head back up to Ithaca.
In writing news, "Secrets" is progressing, and I did a preliminary edit of "Heritage," my evil Gormenghast story, and printed it out to wait for the Editing Pen of Death (TM) to get ready. (In other words, I leave it alone for a couple days until I can give it a somewhat unbiased looking-over. Yes, I am a little bit obsessive about my editing.)
Susan and I did lunch today, which was fun. She's looking into getting a job at a local preschool for this fall, and trying to sort out what exactly she wants to do with her post-college life. See, she's an art major, but she isn't sure that's what she wants to do as a career, per se. So she's not going to grad school right off.
Cat, my other best friend, is in Athens, the [unprintable] lucky skunk. She's not actually there because of the Olympics -- she's doing some sort of archaeologically-related tour-guide internship thingy that has something to do with the Acropolis... I think... -- but she's going to be attending some of the games anyway. *is madly envious*
And that would be all for now.
Oh, except that as a native New Jersey citizen? I'd just like to say that we had no idea about McGreevey either. And are quite surprised. And embarrassed. Usually our politicians have shady Mafia connections or false tax returns, not adulterous gay sex scandals. *shakes head*