Can't Catch Up

I know, it's been a while again. A lot has happened. I didn't keep up with things here. Now many of my moments in history are just gone. I had my third date, but more on that later. I went to the States and saw the family. I came back, I've been impossibly busy with work for my industrial partner and doing nothing to progress my own work. I had to get a new washing machine. I got only one pair of Olympic tickets when I bid on 8 different events. But then some people got nothing, so better than nothing I guess.

S was here for over a week which was tiring but great. SA and T are off on world travels and may not be back to England for some time. SP got an offer for a PhD studentship so she will be starting that up in the fall and then we will both be doing PhD's although sadly not at the same university. Still, it will be good to have a contact at another university in a similar area. No contact from M, not that I mind. Although the thought of her does fill me with ire when I bother to consider it. Everyone else seems to be doing alright.

I printed my blog book for 2006. I am awaiting it now. I am even more excited than when I got the first one because I know just how good it will be. And I spent some more time being funky with the cover so I'm looking forward to how that turns out.

I set up my Etsy shop and have sold my first item which I am shipping off to Australia tomorrow. I was very excited about it, and in some ways still am, but I need to sell a few more items before there is any sort of profit in this endeavor. Still, it's just nice to sell something regardless. Every little helps cover what my expense has been. I think if I were to sell just a couple more I would have covered all my costs, and I've already sold three without Etsy, so really, that probably does cover everything to be honest.

My mom has been in Italy for three weeks now. I am curious to hear how her trip has been. One of the women she was on vacation with put some post on Facebook about how she was on holiday and then sent her greetings from herself, and the third woman on the trip- but not my mother. I thought that was rude, so I left a snarky comment asking if she'd lost my mother. I wonder if the trip was okay or if they had issues.

I've submitted a paper to a conference and have also submitted an abstract to a conference. I should have heard back from the second one by now, which is maybe slightly worrying. I hope I get in to the first one. It's in Italy so that would mean a trip to Bologna in September which would be cool.

My cousin D is coming to stay with me in August for a few days. He'll be here for my birthday which is nice. He's in between high school and college this summer. He's coming to the UK for some sort of program that he's involved in and then adding a few days to see me. I think this should be good fun.

So on my return from the States I had a second date with the third guy. We've now had six dates. I'm conflicted about him. I'm giving it some time in the hopes that the worries I have resolve themselves one way or the other. In the meantime I'm enjoying a bit of fun and hanky panky. I might write more on this later, although, given my current writing habit, who knows.

I still miss the writing. The other blog is taking up some of that. It requires a bit of a commitment and X and SA have both been off and on shit about the commitment it takes leaving me to be the one holding down the fort. The blog is going well, but it's hard to come up with one article a week. It's a lot of effort. Which is why the others have struggled. I know. But if we don't keep the writing up, we don't keep the readership up. It's a viscous cycle that way. I guess ideally we'd add one more writer to the group and then everyone could write a single article every other week.

I'm going to try and write here more again. Although I know I always say that. I hate doing catch up posts when I feel there is so much to record, but no time to delve into anything.