Fall's Freedom

There have been football games at Cornell the past two nights. We can hear the sounds from the stadium. (There is also some pretty decent music coming from that stadium.) Anyway, it's just another sign that the summer of 2005 is gone. Welcome fall.

I guess the summer really ended for me when I found out the Dan got into Johnson. Since then everything has been a whirlwind, and I'm a few steps behind the actual events occuring in my life.

The leaves are turning. The night brings a comfortable chill. The air is fresh, but you could smell the cold waiting to creep its way into town.

Dan just went to his finance club meeting, and I'm feeling a little lonely. I miss everyone so much today. My mom and the kids are coming Columbus Day weekend and I'm so excited about it. Then I get to see Shannon. Stacy is coming up the last week in October. I have so much to look forward to. It's just getting thru now...today.

Dan told me last night that it upsets him when I crawl into my old bed at night. I do know that Marshy drives me crazy when he starts his 2:30 a.m. panting party. I don't know if part of all this is psychological, and I haven't full let go of my old life.

It's been three full weeks today.

Yesterday I cleaned the house. It's not fun cleaning a two floor apartment. We bought another bookcase, too. It's cheap, but it does the trick. We're still toying with getting rid of the exercise bike. It's awesome, but it's seriously taking up space. Also, it's now in my Special Room, which has no TV. Bike and TV go hand-in-hand. It's been about 2 months since I've used it. With it gone, we can buy yet another bookcase and a filing cabinet, which I really need.

It's amazing how many birds there are here. I mean a full song plays from the tree across the parking lot, which is in my front line of sight. For description purposes, my desk is in front of the big window in my Special Room that overlooks the parking lot. Sounds dreary to overlook a parking lot, but it's not. It's very small and everyone that lives in the big apartment tower has to walk thru it--so I do get to people watch. This complex is also nicely landscaped and there is a comforting tree right outside my Special Room window. It's nothing like the tree from Poltergeist.

I just finished my second book in the three weeks I've been here. Yes, I've been slow. Book number one was Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis. Book number two was Honeymoon by James Patterson. It was a pretty bad book, but reading crappy mysteries has become a hidden pleasure. What's more ridiculous is that my Patterson and Mary Higgins Clark books are sharing shelves with Irving and Hemingway. It's a nice escape tho'. When you're trained to read literature, reading isn't just a pasttime, it's work. I had to untrain myself, and now I'm enjoying all of these book-of-the-month club reads.

I'm going to hang some prints now. Signing off.