Good Things

1. Hot showers

2. Smooth-writing black pens

3. My sister’s photo on my caller ID

4. Coffee

5. The smell when you first add pressed garlic to sauteed onions, and the delicious hiss

Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.  ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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Damn right, Harold. I bought 6 Moleskine notebooks on sale about six weeks ago, and have yet to mar any of them. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now they’re just sitting on the shelf, MOCKING me with their blankness. On the plus side, I have been watching a lot of Doctor Who and imagining what life will like when I’m a famous author. Who, you know, never seems to put pen to freaking paper.

I’m also thinking of relocating to Seattle next year, finishing my (3rd and FINAL) degree, and taking writing classes. I think screenwriting would be really interesting to learn, or maybe find a community college or continuing education class that does fiction. It’s a great city for artists and us oddball creative types. The colors of hair on the street alone give you a hint…

Maybe I’ll actually start updating this blog every once in awhile. Maybe I’ll find a pen and ruin some clean white sheets (of paper). Maybe so.

I am giving myself a day off. I realized that between finals and moving and unpacking and graduation, I haven’t had a real, do-nothing day off for awhile, and I’m TIRED. It’s hard to do something when you don’t think you have a choice not to. Sometimes I give myself a free day to remind myself that I am choosing to do things in my life – my life isn’t doing things to me. It feels good.

What does NOT feel good is stepping on a broken scale. Don’t look at me like that, the damn thing is BROKEN. It got knocked around pretty good during the move, and it’s 3 years old. And I did NOT gain 15 lbs in 10 days. I’m taking yoga and eating pretty well, and I thought I was loosing weight until I saw graduation pics. I always look like an over-educated Pillsbury dough girl in those damn robes. I definitely still want to lose weight and get in shape this summer, but that doesn’t change the fact that the SCALE IS BROKEN.

I also want to write more. The blog is a good start, just to get the fingers moving, and I bought some Moleskine notebooks with some 50% off coupons to Borders (which makes those overpriced but admittedly fabulous darlings affordable), but I need to actually put pen to paper.

My brain just feels tired. I just want to be LAZY for a little while. I have work and yoga and life and various bureaucratic whatnot, but I’m going to carve out some lazy time for me. And it’s going to feel great :)

I JUST TOOK MY LAST LAW SCHOOL EXAM EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I called my sister S on Friday.

“Hey, how’s it going?” I could hear someone making an announcement over a PA system of some sort in the background. “Where are you?”

“At the airport with B.” B is the boyfriend.

“Cool! Where are you going?” S works for an airline, and her benefits include awesome free standby tickets. She and B often jet off for the weekend to California or Washington or wherever the flights look good.

“Germany.”

“Just for the weekend?? Where in Germany??”

“Yup, we’ll get there tonight and head out Sunday morning. But we have ALL DAY Saturday in Frankfurt!”

“Awesome!” I was very happy for her and not at all jealous that she was essentially going to Europe for brunch. She had to go, since the gate agent was calling standbys. She texted me later to tell me they got first class. Not jealous…

I’m actually not, since I really am SUPER excited about my upcoming move, even though it’s only 10 minutes from my current place. You can’t nest on vacation.

And I get standby passes too, thanks to her job (which I’ve told her she can never quit, so I hope she likes it…) I’ve been thinking of after graduation / summer trips. I already have a road trip with H lined up for Labor Day weekend to Atlanta, but that’s so long to wait……

I really just want to go somewhere and sit on a lounge chair by a body of water (I don’t care what kind; it can be a pool) and read trashy novels and have someone bring me adult beverages at regular intervals. DIVINE. Vegas? CA? FL? I’m good to go!

Never again will I have to write a paper for law school. NEVER AGAIN!! I turned in my last one at 11:36pm on Friday night, and I am SO glad to be done. Yes, done, like a roasted bird.

I’ve been watching a lot of shows on Hulu, mostly Food and HGTV :) This is moving week, and I can’t wait to get into my new apartment with my new kitchen that has marvelous things like COUNTER SPACE and a DISHWASHER!!!! Will wonders never cease??

Before I can get to all of that, of course, I have to pack up my apartment / give LOTS of stuff to Goodwill. And move. And unpack. Not my most favoritest thing ever. What WAS fun was going couch shopping with JBH yesterday at a discount/overstock store with great deals. I’m torn between wanting to get a cute couch and wanting a comfy one. I can, of course, find those qualities in combination – for about 3 times my budget. I’d like to stay under $300. I found a pretty comfy and not-ugly cream faux suede number that is a definite contender. With any luck, by next Sunday, I’ll be stretched out on my new couch in my new living room. Can’t wait!

But at least I changed my theme 84 times and settled on something with leaves!

Yesterday was a cloudy, contemplative autumn day, complete with fall temperatures and moodiness.Very seasonally appropriate.

EXCEPT THAT IT’S APRIL.

And today, it’s sunny with a high of 70. Stop toying with my emotions! Pick a season!!!

I have a paper to write, and I actually really care about / like the topic, but putting words to paper (when you’re being graded on it and it’s not a blog…) is hard. Waaahhh :P

I cooked with JBH last night, and we made coconut beans and rice. Mmmmmmm. I want to make a batch for myself, and some more chili, and stir fry… Pretty much make anything that isn’t a seminar paper.

I have no idea what I’m doing with this blog. For once, my life is in order and I know what I’m doing for the next several months. And what’s more, I’m LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. But I have no idea what to do with this blog.

I tried blogging about cooking. No go. I like to cook, but I just haven’t done it often enough. I tired writing little flash pieces. Fun, but again, I don’t do it enough.

So now what? My life? I’m a student. I’m trying to lose weight. I’m moving to a new apartment. The end.

And oddly enough, I don’t mind that that’s it for now. I have plans and aspirations and all that, but…..that’s it. I have nothing to write about. And I’ve been writing an entire post about how I have nothing to write about.

Wow, it feels good to be boring.