Endless

I am so disappointed in myself right now. I was finally not procrastinating anything for school for the first two-thirds of this summer term (I am never taking summer classes again! Not that I was planning to anyway, but I have come to that decision in case there is some future situation I'm not seeing right now). But these last couple of weeks I've been working even more and forgetting about schoolwork and well, just being lazy and procrastinating (cue profanity coming out of my mouth and being directed at myself). Considering I am getting pretty close to pulling an all-nighter (something I haven't actually done since last spring when I had a really really strange sleep schedule and it's not that I haven't stayed up through the night since then, it's that I've always gone to bed oh, sometime around now or in the next hour or so) and probably will pull an all-nighter I just can't help but being upset with myself. Especially because what I'm working on isn't difficult, it doesn't even really require much critical thinking, it is just ridiculously time-consuming. But it should turn out to be a pretty cool project once it's done. I'll post some pictures or something, because I don't really have anything else going on in my life and, well I feel bad just letting this blog sit here with nothing new on it. 

I have to say that if you made it through that without being completely confused by the side-tracks my mind takes or the way that I write them out... well, then you are amazing! 

Weekends

I was sick this weekend. My body truly has awful timing. There is so much I have to do for school this term and on top of that I need to find a job. I feel like I'm getting lost in it all. Or maybe I'm just lost to begin with. I just need the time it takes to figure things out... but I don't have that. And I don't get to find it anywhere. Finally, goats in trees... entertaining - thank you internet.

Doris Lake

As promised, here are a couple of photos from my camping trip this past weekend to Doris Lake. It was beautiful... and cold. I wish I had gotten a shot of the giant fire we slept next to all night (since we had no tent, just blankets). It was nice to get away from everything again, though I would have liked to do some more exploring, time just wasn't on our side though. Summer is most definately coming to an end. Oh, well, there is plenty of time in the future for all sorts of adventures and explorations.

I should be heading to bed.

Check out my flickr for more photos from the trip (although I really just didn't take all that many)

Days

Days go by, one after the other, I never know what will happen as each one unfolds. It's always something interesting, or I think of it as interesting and exciting afterwards, most days. Some days though I wish I led a more exciting life, full of trips and adventures and exciting friends. But I think that I may already be leading that life I wish for on the boring days. Today for example, I did quite a few things, with the twelve hours I have now been up (yes, I got up at noon... my sleep habits are getting a bit ridiculous).

1. Re-organized photos on computer

2. Got film developed

3. Sent out birthday invitations (only 12 more days until my birthday, 13 until the party that is going to be amazing, it does not have a choice)

4. Looked through library books of photographs and took pictures of the pages with my favorite photos on them (that sounds so much more pathetically nerdy than I thought it would)

5. Helped my mom with the groceries

6. Helped clean and get ready for my family to go on a camping trip (I'm stuck here, working... yay? I'm kind of excited?)

7. Bought strawberries in the last ten minutes of the farmer's market (Holy goodness!)

8. Played a game of ultimate frisbee (and apparently was a little more aggressive than anyone thought I would be in my guarding technique)

9. Sat with some new friends around a fire and roasted marshmallows and ate s'mores (yum!)

10. Watched The Orphanage with Shawn (it was not as scary as everyone made it out to be, I really enjoyed it, actually)

That seems like quite a lot for twelve hours. At least to me it does. I can't imagine how people that are actually awake for the morning do it, they must be exhausted and actually able to sleep at night... weird. Oh, I think tomorrow I'll show you some of my film photos, they turned out much better this time (thank goodness it wasn't my camera).

Views

After cleaning today, I sat down and realized that between the dark, greyness that has been hanging aroung the skies lately, there have been moments of summer sunshine, fleeting, but there. They get me ready for the time when I feel most at-ease to take pictures outside my room... until then, I'll let you enjoy these small moments from inside my room, inspired by a small bit of sunshine that screamed of summer.