Holding out

So, I feel like I’ve been holding out on the blogging world (and my seven loyal readers.) I have been busy this summer. I have been cooking (so, of course, I have recipes I’d like to post) and canning (I made sweet pickles out of squash!) and reading (I’m almost caught up on Cassandra “Still Not King” Clare’s ‘Mortal Instruments’ series, I’ve read the two books by Maggie Stiefvater that don’t involve wolves and, to my knowledge aren’t part of a trilogy, I’ve written some bad poetry (in perfect iambic pentameter) thanks to Stephen Fry, I’ve made not-so-shockingly little headway on this year’s book list but I have sort of become addicted to Sara Shepard’s Pretty Little Liars. The books, not the TV show the books are based on.) and I’ve been learning German (ich lerne Deutsch! Ich habe eine Schwester. Ich schenke ihr das Buch! Assuming that is how you spell all of those words and they are in the right order, all of those sentences are true. Although, a little hard to process probably since ‘das Buch’ is definite and without antecedent.) I’ve been bored to tears reading about LeBron and Favre (both of whom take way too long to make decisions. Can you imagine sitting in a restaurant with either of those guys? Do mains have to come out and court them? Do pigs have to point out where the juiciest chop will be? I know, I could just stop getting tweets from Sports Center and PTI, but sometimes they actually talk about Sports!) I’ve been working my way through all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is amazing how little sleep one actually needs when one needs to know if Willow can be talked down from the dark side. Oh, and I’ve been working on academic stuff. Academic stuff that’s not in German.

All of this is preamble to the following sentence: I have vacation coming up. Time I have dedicated to specifically not working on preserving tasty and cheap food for the winter and ongoing academic projects and the like. So, I plan on spending some of that time posting about the food and the pickles and reviewing the books. I plan on spending some of that time working on this year’s photo project ( I may even put up a page for it!) Oh, and I plan on holding babies and going to bridal showers and just generally enjoying the part of my life that isn’t geared towards one day getting me a job (or making sure I don’t starve, get rickets or some other disease brought about by some kind of nutritional deficit.) I may blog about that, too. It is fun and exciting (and a little bit sad, noting the inexorable march of time) to see how big the Smalls in your life have gotten in the 6 months since you’ve seen them last.

So, I am holding out a little, but it won’t be for long.