Wow, do pageviews drop off sharply if you don’t blog for a while.<\/p>\n
So after spending the last couple of weeks visiting family across the country–literally across the country, from Massachusetts to Iowa–I’m back here in good old Provo, Utah, surrounded by the mountains once again (I can just hear my grandma … “what’s so great about a pile of rocks?”).<\/p>\n
Here were some of the highlights:<\/p>\n
So yeah, it was a pretty awesome summer vacation.\u00a0 It’s good to be back in Utah, though.\u00a0 As much as I have a love\/hate relationship with Provo, Utah really is my favorite place on Earth.<\/p>\n
I’ve only been back a couple of hours, but it seems that it’s been an eventful two weeks since I’ve been gone.\u00a0 One of my former roommates ran off without paying his share of the utilities, after jacking up the AC all summer (lovely).\u00a0 After filing a police report, however, we may be able to get some of that back.<\/p>\n
My tomatoes have been growing like CRAZY.\u00a0 Only one has been harvested, but there are dozens hanging off of the vines.\u00a0 Anybody want to make salsa?<\/p>\n
As far as church goes, the ward boundaries have been completely rearranged.\u00a0 Seriously, the map looks like a shredder went to it.\u00a0 On our block, it’s us and the house two doors down from us (we think), then one of the apartments from Liberty Square, then another random house a block north of us.\u00a0 Crazy.<\/p>\n
I don’t know yet if I’ll be sticking around in my current place for the fall or not.\u00a0 It’s a good situation, and the roommates are great, but the neighborhood is full of freshmen and sophomore college students.\u00a0 I need to find some more people my age to hang out with.\u00a0 Next month marks the beginning of the final year of my twenties, and I plan to make it count.<\/p>\n
I got a lot of work done on Star Wanderers: Reproach (Part VII)<\/strong> while traveling on the train, but I still need some of my first readers to give it another read-through before I’m confident enough to publish it.\u00a0 Hopefully, that shouldn’t take too long–I’m shooting for publication before the end of September.\u00a0 Also, the print edition of Stars of Blood and Glory<\/strong> will hopefully be finalized before the end of the month as well.<\/p>\n That’s just about it for now.\u00a0 I’ll leave you with some folk music from the Caucasus Mountains, this time on the accordion:<\/p>\n