Tomorrow morning my parents are leaving for Florida for a few days. Jeff was the only one who was going originally, but my mom decided she needed a vacation so she's going as well, now. My grandma's going to come up and stay with me in the meantime.

I don't know what the purpose of this blog is anymore; I don't update it anywhere near regularly, and I don't really know why. I suppose I have different outlets now, and also I'm just really preoccupied with other things that I don't feel like expending the energy to write anything about my life because, frankly, it's kind of boring.

Next week is the last week of the semester, and I'm doing all right in everything so far. A's and B's. I just finished a research paper for my history class and I really don't have much else going on. I've gotten a lot better at preparing for exams, so I'm not too worried about those, and I only have three, anyway. The final for my English class is just a timed writing reflection.

I've been reading a lot of poetry in the past few days because I'm trying to read more in general -- and I've banned myself from writing creatively (so stories, poems, etc.) for the week, actually, so I can focusing on consuming instead of creating. My well of inspiration ran dry quite a while ago, I think, and I was getting so depressed about my own writing ability and just how much I was struggling with it that I felt like I needed not only a break but kind of a detox. I don't read a lot at all, just things for school. So right now I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and I'm trying to read a handful of poems every day. I stumbled across this extremely talented and inspiring poet, ephemera, on hellopoetry, and God, her stuff is just absolutely outstanding. Maybe it's just me, but I'm in love with it. The vast majority of her poems rhyme, but it's in no way forced, and it all just flows so beautifully and her word choices are excellent and they just make me smile and sigh and feel happy feelings.

I'm starting a new physical therapy program over break, and the whole thing is going to be pretty intensive, from what I learned at the evaluation. But I have a lot of faith that it could really truly help, and so it's worth trying. This physical therapist seems to really know what she's talking about and know what to do with pain like mine, apparently. So I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes, although I'm not altogether eager to put in all the effort it's going to require (exercising six days a week. That's six more days than I normally do.)

I'm also thinking about entering the contest that Hayley introduced in her most recent video and a week or so ago on her blog, both of which I'm too lazy to link, but her blog is in my sidebar I think so yeah, I trust you can find it if you care. Basically, they'll be short stories about online relationship experiences, and since I've had online friends since I was as young as ten (which seems dangerously young now from my old-and-oh-so-wise perspective, but I was a fairly mature ten-year-old, whatever), it's definitely something I have experience in. But I'm not sure if anything is short-story worthy. It's not something I would work on until break, anyway.

That's really about all that is going on and/or new with me. I am, as always, blogging and reblogging rampantly on tumblr, because it is the Place to Be for me these days.