hmm...

so october is almost almost dead.

there are five weeks left. yes, five weeks from now i will be packing up my life and driving it home in my little blue honda. i really hope little blue honda makes it all that way... she needs her oil changed and after hitting that deer her poor hood could use some plastic surgery.

but more importantly, i hope to be able to visit many/most/perhaps all of you fellow-alumni along with my plentous relatives in utah, as i'm passing through. i've got the week of dec. 4 blocked off for miscellaneous travelling and nostalgia. mark your calendars.

this is me in my alien costume. am i not adorable? (don't answer that)

this week was magazine torture again. i will have callouses from the papercuts. thank heaven it's over.

it hasn't snowed here yet. mostly we get rain. lovely bucketsful of rain all day long... wonderful midwestern rain. today the sun came out again. i love the autumn. no doubt there will be frost in the morning.

unrelatedly, national novel-writing month begins in a few days. i'm lazily toying with the idea of if not writing a whole novel in a month, at least finishing one i've already started. but we'll see how that turns out.