Life Update

Hey all.

With graduation a week and a day behind me, life's started to slow down a bit for the moment. I've been back in New Hampshire for almost a week now, and it's been pretty nice. Mostly, I apply for jobs, read, and watch Supernatural. I've been trying to learn how to cook, too. Last Wednesday was fish, Thursday was gourmet grilled cheese (Swiss cheese, tomatoes, spinach, and avocado), Friday was chicken cordon bleu, and then Dad took over for Saturday when some extended family came over.

I've also been casually thinking about a website design. I sketched one out while I was in Roanoke and I'm refreshing my HTML and CSS skills with CodeAcademy. I rarely have occasion to use either language, so the refresher is necessary. I could design all the sites I want, but they'll never be used (in most likelihood) so it's hard to motivate myself to do it.

I haven't been as avid a reader as I have been in the past. Searching for jobs is a full-time job (and a poorly-paid one, at that...it's like indentured servitude to yourself). Anyway, I finally finished Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman and I'm working on Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan. Don't Look Behind You is definitely something of an artifact. It was written in 1989 and it shows. Not only are there none of the technologies we enjoy today, but there's something very 1980s about the main character, April. Maybe it's just Duncan's writing, but April comes across as a clichéd 1980s-cheerleader type. It's like watching a twisted episode of Full House.

I'm doing my best to read through what's in my closet library. (And by "closet library," I mean my closet which I use mainly to store books.) It's difficult because a lot of the books I've purchased, I've since lost interest in. Still, I feel obligated to read them because, well, I did buy them and as a bibliophile, it just seems plain wrong not to give them each a good chance. After all, this is America: books are good until proven bad. Right?

But I need to get through as many as possible before I leave so I can clear up some space. I already have so much stuff to sort through and either pack up or get rid of so my parents can use my room as they please when I leave in mid-July. I'll be back, of course, for Christmas and the like. My bed will remain. My undersized dresser will probably stay, too. And it looks like Mom will want to use my sewing desk and maybe my desk-desk, so those will stay too. As for everything else? I don't know. I have so many crafting things and art supplies that I can't possibly justify bringing to DC. Not only will I be unlikely to have the time to use any of them, but there simply isn't enough space. Luckily, I don't think my parents will mind me using home as storage until I'm in a condition to take the things out.

I'd like to blog more regularly again, but of course, I'm struggling with topics as usual. My days here are pretty standard. I wake up in the late morning, I go for a walk, I have breakfast, I scroll through Tumblr, I apply for jobs, I scroll through Tumblr some more, I watch a couple episodes of Supernatural, maybe I reward my job-searching efforts with an iced coffee from Dunkins, and then I wait until Dad gets home and have dinner ready. We watch TV in the evenings and then we drift off to our own rooms to sleep. Sometimes my brother comes home, sometimes he doesn't. I don't hold my breath waiting. But who knows what will happen. Maybe you'll hear from me more often. Maybe I'll get struck with some profound thought to share.

Until then.

A