Sometimes, randomly, I'm compelled to check in here at good ole SG. I won't lie-- I'll hit the front page and the new photos regularly as long as my subscription goes, however much that is... But it's a rare day when I check my feed, and I usually read recent blogs. It's nice to see that some of my SG friends are still going strong; but others have fallen off the map, probably for the same reasons I have (no, I won't rehash that). I do miss the days when I came here daily, and made some new friends; and I really curse the people, whoever they are, that fucked up this once-great site.
As for myself, summer is here, and life rolls along quietly. I'd like to say I've met someone new, etc etc, but the few little endeavors that have popped up in the past year have come to nothing. It feels like destiny, and how it's supposed to be; and then one day, things change... But I was reflecting on how things were when I moved down here, and it IS better. But the "bad" side of summer is seeing how much time there is to fill when you're not working and have no family or partner of your own.
I guess this is Recurring Themes Part Duh. Moving on...
...to random weirdness: A mocking bird moved into our neighborhood about a month ago (ironically, when I was reading To Kill a Mockingbird with my class). It is an insane bird: It sings almost entirely at night, and IT IS LOUD. It parked itself in the tree in front of our building, and was so loud that I couldn't sleep. (Mockingbirds don't fall into patterns that you can tune out.) I finally went out in my night clothes (skimpy shorts and a t-- sexy, I know) and grabbed and shook the tree for a few minutes, at around midnight. As I was doing this, a car drove down the street. God knows what they thought when they saw me, lol. Ah well... the bird has jumped around the neighborhood since then-- in fact, I can hear it now, which is what prompted me to relate this-- but it has never been back to "our" tree. So I guess they're pretty smart.
Has anyone else ever gone through a time when they spent most of it on their own? It would be nice to hear from people who've been in similar circumstances. And if you got any weird animal stories, that'd be cool, too.
