The semester is over! I had my last final this morning. I'm just so glad to be truly done with all of that nonsense, at least for now. It's not a minute too soon, either, because 1) garlic mustard season has begun and 2) I'm getting a little sick. As far as the garlic mustard goes, I haven't done much of it yet... I got a bit of a start but then it got really cold, plus as previously mentioned I've not been feeling well. As far as the sickness goes, it's fairly mild at this point although it really comes and goes. I just wish that it would either come or go, you know? Obviously hoping for the going, but I'd settle for just coming more thoroughly and getting itself over with.

Moonlight, which is probably my favorite show on TV now, returned with new episodes on the 25th... I'm very happy. There will only be four episodes at this point, but apparently the outlook is fairly good as far as getting more goes. I hope so, because I would probably sink into a very pathetic depression if it were to be cancelled. Anyway, last Friday's episode was exceptionally amazing... you all should have heard me during the last about twenty minutes (mostly several repetitions of "Oh my god!" with varying inflection). I also discovered that when I'm really worked up I can't say "Mick"... I stutter things along the lines of "Meck... Mi... Mah... Meh..." My sister makes fun of me a lot while I'm watching Moonlight.

I haven't been reading very much lately, a situation that I hope to remedy in the near future. My mental to-read list is so long I suspect I've forgotten most of it, although as a general rule if it's something I really want to read I end up getting reminded. It really bugs me that I've become one of those people who "doesn't have time to read", because I've always sort of scorned them... I mean, when you don't have time to read it's time to re-prioritize, people. I really would do just about anything to keep this situation from persisting for too long, but it's been a couple of months already and I'm getting seriously jittery about it. I'm kind of thinking that I shouldn't be working as much as I am, but on the other thing I have the whole "saving for the future" thing to think about.

As far as my writing goes, I seem to be finding some inspiration again. My goal is to do at least as much writing just because I want to as writing with a specific goal (like to submit to a magazine and such). I don't know if I can manage it, though, because inevitably I end up opting to spend my time on the things that might further my so-called "career" (okay, nobody's ever called it that, but I hope that someday it could be called that). I submitted another short story to The First Line the other day, which I hope that they'll like, and now I need to get to work on writing for the next issue. Also it would be cool to try different markets at some point. But anyway, I have some stuff that I hope to write just for the fun of it, as well.

I watched a pretty hilarious movie last night, called Seducing Dr. Lewis. It's about this small island fishing town, but the fishing is bad so they want this factory to build there so that they can get jobs, but the factory won't come unless they have a doctor. So they get this doctor to come for one month, and in the hopes of getting him to stay longer they try to make him like the town. Naturally, they end up doing some pretty outrageous things. I didn't really think that it was that funny at first but it grew on me.

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