My parents were here visiting me over Thanksgiving. They had been in Switzerland in September and decided to stop in here on their way home. They were here for a week but over the long weekend we rented a car and drove around the province. Cape Breton is especially nice during fall because of all the colours.
We had a really good time and I'm so thankful they came. It was a much-needed holiday away from my boring life and I feel like I know this province a little bit better than the couple...

All I ever do these days is lounge on my futon and read book after book. I feel like a little mole when I emerge out of my room after countless hours of burrowing into one of these books: all blinking and blurry-eyed.
I suppose I feel more content this year, if only because I've come to terms with what my life will be like for the next 7 months, and if only because I haven't the time to be anything but focused. My life is a routine of going to class, reading my books, and talking to Tim at...

well, i'm back at school again.
my classes all seem great. i'm excited. it's going to be a tough year but I'm game. this is the year that counts. this is the year that defines my future career.
i wish i didn't have to get lonely. i wish i could just stick my head down, absorb myself in work, and not care that I don't ever talk to anyone or do anything.
maybe i can be more like that this year.

my roommate dragged me out to field hockey tryouts this past weekend. she...

i go back to the other side of the country next wednesday.
no more summer. no more horsies. no more mountains. no more family. no more man. no more lakes.
i don't know what to do with myself.
i feel like i've wasted it away, frittered it away, and done nothing.

So tomorrow we're off for our much-discussed, much-mulled-over, much-looked-forward-to summer roadtrip extravaganza. We've been looking forward to this all year. All year while I've been on the other side of the country. And now we're leaving tomorrow
It's been a toss up between a number of things and we only just decided on this one option in the past little while. We left the planning until very late - mostly because of my weird liver condition: we didn't know what I was going to be capable...