divine angst

Yes, I’ve been gone for a while. No, I am still here and still alive. Between traveling to the Angst-in-laws’ for Thanksgiving and working on plowing through journal stuff and reading for class and contemplating beginning outlining and hounding relatives to send me pictures for my grandmother’s Christmas letter which I design, it’s been a little busy.

Here’s what I’ve done over the last two weeks:

• Drove 6 hours, each way, in nasty rainy stuff, to Thanskgiving.
• Played fetch with the dog in the backyard, which he loved.
• Ate turkey three four times.
• Made sides to go with leftover turkey once.
• Saw Dan in Real Life and wished the filmmakers had been brave enough not to give it a happy ending.
• Watched The Incredibles and remembered what a totally kick-ass movie it is. Too bad it’s Disney and I bet I can’t get it on DVD for another twenty years.
• Finished editing the most boring article ever. Maybe second-most boring. It’s hard to say.
• Slogged through some administrative responsibilities that were unpleasant.
• Decided I needed better backup, so bought an external hard drive. Might arrive tomorrow.
• Woke up with swollen tonsils. Afraid am getting sick. Fighting through it.
• Wrote this post.

I think that actually only covers about a week and a half, maybe even just a week, but I think it’s a fair assessment of what my life is like right now—editing, some reading for class, eating, sleeping, trying not to die, that sort of thing.

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. For all my complaining, I have many things to be thankful for, not least of which is realizing I have many things to be thankful for. Heaven help me if I ever forget to acknowledge how incredibly blessed I am.