What have you been up to, Skye? Well let me tell you...

School is coming along well - just down to a few BIG papers, two or three more projects, study of the figure (finally!) in Drawing, and all the finals. Ch4rm is taking the kids to DisneyWorld for a week just before Thanksgiving which will give me ample free time; more than I know what to do with, actually! I have one trip scheduled this year, and I am happy to say that we're getting ever-closer to Fall Break. The thing that I think will carry me through finals is that the break between semesters in Dec/Jan is VERY generous. Family Life is as funny as ever - Cai has started making up jokes. Only they're not jokes. Which makes Paris and I laugh harder, Maddie confused as to why we're laughing, and Syd would laugh anyway -Cai's ALWAYS funny to Syd. Paris is acting in a school play in a few weeks and my whole extended family is going to that.

My Personal life is undergoing a bit of an upgrade - I'm seeing that my friends are really quite great and I'm determined to spend more time in their company, doing things that make us happy and supporting each other. I cut back on networking to spend time in self-improvement efforts and independent study (which flows over into school projects, usually). My *cough* Interpersonal life is in what feels like a holding pattern over Purgatory - but I know I can't sustain that forever. This week I feel I may be starting to let go of my consternation - the more I pay attention to what cool things I'm doing and how I'm growing into an artist and woman the less distressed I am that someone 'doesn't want to be with me'. I will not suffer myself to become either plaything nor wife, so I'm aware it may take time to stumble into someone of quality there in the middle who's living his own happy, busy life that I can augment, charcoal-stained fingers and acrylic-smugged cheek and all. Synergy, baby! ;) Ch4rm and I are quite a happy pair as usual, and in fact we made Farmboy's mom cry last week - she was so touched that ch4rm and I were so good to each other, in contrast to her parents who speak venom and anger at each other even 30 years later, that she burst into tears both in joy at our ability to love and sadness at her own loss of loving parents.

I'm a little wibbly today because I found a few gray hairs when I showered in the late morning; usually I get ready in the pre-dawn and don't wash my face until late in the evening so I don't have occasion to look in the mirror when it's light. I know this is just the beginning; I have always intended to let my hair go gray when I get into my 50s - I want a nice neat bob, morhping a 20s flapper look into my own. But it seems so soon to be getting any...

OK BUT now for something completely different!



I just adored that.