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Jul. 12th, 2009 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sadie_cocopufftonight i've been ravenous for words, reading newsweek and time cover-to-cover (not even skipping the political articles like i usually do - i didn't really have any context for most of them, but by golly i read them), plowing a little further into to the lighthouse. i miss the days when i always wanted to read, when i carried a novel or three everywhere, reading while walking down the hall between classes. these days i intellectually want to read, but mustering the energy for anything more demanding than YA fiction doesn't seem worth the effort - so much easier to just turn on buffy. what have i come to? on the one hand, i hate to think of reading as a chore. on the other hand, maybe i need to get over myself and just do it.
there's been lots of family time this weekend - quasi open house at my grandmother's new place last night, with representatives from her family and that of her new boyfriend (i went into it expecting a battle of the model grandchildren, and we were indeed forced to sing, but his grandson turned out to be friendly enough). my grandmother is much happier of late, though if i am forced to engage in one more conversation about europe because ernie and i have both been there and she wants us to bond, i will revolt. just saying. tonight was good texas cookin' at the golds' house, with the gammons and goffs for company (how alliterative we are!) - small children, teenage children, adults, and me...i am at an awkward age where i never know where to sit or what to call anyone. hurrah for young adulthood. also extremely fluffy kitties, including a maine coon cat with furry "wings." i ate too much, but was happy.
my sister leaves the house in approximately four hours to fly to virginia, where she'll be participating in a two-week summer program at hollins university. all girls, which i'm not sure i'd live through - so many unadulterated hormones in one place! she's excited though. fingers crossed for smooth flying, as its her first time to do it alone. i actually won't see her for two and a half weeks total, as i return from visiting midd four days after she gets back. also the same day audrey leaves for argentina for the semester. very poor planning on my part, in retrospect.
and let me just say: new hp movie in 3 days!
there's been lots of family time this weekend - quasi open house at my grandmother's new place last night, with representatives from her family and that of her new boyfriend (i went into it expecting a battle of the model grandchildren, and we were indeed forced to sing, but his grandson turned out to be friendly enough). my grandmother is much happier of late, though if i am forced to engage in one more conversation about europe because ernie and i have both been there and she wants us to bond, i will revolt. just saying. tonight was good texas cookin' at the golds' house, with the gammons and goffs for company (how alliterative we are!) - small children, teenage children, adults, and me...i am at an awkward age where i never know where to sit or what to call anyone. hurrah for young adulthood. also extremely fluffy kitties, including a maine coon cat with furry "wings." i ate too much, but was happy.
my sister leaves the house in approximately four hours to fly to virginia, where she'll be participating in a two-week summer program at hollins university. all girls, which i'm not sure i'd live through - so many unadulterated hormones in one place! she's excited though. fingers crossed for smooth flying, as its her first time to do it alone. i actually won't see her for two and a half weeks total, as i return from visiting midd four days after she gets back. also the same day audrey leaves for argentina for the semester. very poor planning on my part, in retrospect.
and let me just say: new hp movie in 3 days!
