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I am back in the beege after my weekend away, and what a fantastic weekend it was. I'm too tired to post tonight, but rest assured that details and pictures will be forth coming.

Falling

Summer is at its end, and, as usual, I can't say I'm terribly sad. I've tried to keep the whining about overheating to a minimum, and I will say that this summer has been on the mild side for the most part. Still, I'm never very happy in the heat (and humidity!). So, Hooray, it's Autumn! My second favorite season, and Halloween is coming soon, too.

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I'm having a minivacation this weekend, and boy do I need it. Orignially I was just going to Pittsburg for my friend's wedding, but I've expanded the trip. Thursday after work I'm driving down to southeastern Ohio where I will check into my hotel and spend the evening doing fuck-all and soaking in the whirlpool tub (in my room, I decided to splurg on a nicer room). Friday will be hiking in my favorite state parks and nature preserves then the drive to pittsburg later in the day. I'll enjoy the comforts of Motel 6 (I got the cheapy room here), and Saturday will be the wedding, and drive back on Sunday. I will bring back pictures. :)

Apartment Pictures! (Finally)

So, as promised, and much talked about, here are some pictures of my new apartment. I spent the afternoon tidying up and putting away the last of the moving debris that has been lurking around the living room and kitchen, so the blogosphere will not think I am a total slob...

The Tour: Living Room.





More Living Room.









Yes, there is a futon in the dining area.




The kitchen...



...and...







This is my dishwasher.
Look at how cute and tiny it is!

It also works very well, a vast improvement from last apartment's dishwasher.




I also have a smallish bathroom, it's not exciting.

Since the rest of the place is immaculate you can probably guess that my room is still craptacular. That's my system: keep piling all the extra stuff in one location until everything else is clean. The only problem is that the one location always seems to be on top of my bed.

Ah well.

This is boring.

I've finally had a chance to do some cleaning and unpacking today. The more stressful work gets the more cluttered the living room seems to get. A fact that has been exacerbated by my room being an unholy mess with no place to put anything. I tidied up my mosaic of clutter and rearranged my room today. It's not something I wanted to do, but I realized it was the only way. My desk is "L" shaped, but it's the wrong "L" for they way I wanted to set it up. So I had to flip that around to put it together. Since the long side now blocks off one of my closet's sliding doors I had to flip the entire contents of my closet so the less used items (like xmas stuff) were on the blocked off side and the more often used things (like clothes) were on the easily accessible side. However, the closet is nice and deep and I was able to stack things so I will be able to get to them with the least amount of trouble. My room is now in some kind of functioning state instead of me having to step over piles of stuff everytime I walk through. And I've found that as I've shuffled everything around and organized it I have more space than I thought. Hooray for neatness!