Reasons I Haven’t Been Updating

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1) It’s summer. Summertime is for drinking beer on patios, not staying inside, online.

2) In accordance with my vow to re-design my sleeping schedule, I’ve been limiting my post-midnight computer time. It turns out I can only write when everybody else is asleep.

3) I’ve been focusing on novel-writing instead. We’ll see if this lasts.

4) A. and I have been busy. In the last month’s worth of weekends, we’ve:

• hiked six and a half miles at Eagle Creek and had pizza and beer with some of my visiting friends
• went down to Eugene to grill & drink with some of A.’s friends, and
• spent an entire weekend cleaning in preparation for my parents’ visit.

This week, I:

• took my parents to Powell’s, the International Rose Test Garden and the Japanese Garden, Forest Park, a Portland Beavers game, and the Oregon Zoo
• spent three days on the coast with A. and my parents (two days hiking, two breweries, too much windy beach time, a lot of their eating seafood and my eating whatever paltry veggie options a seafood restaurant can scrounge up)
• had dinner al fresco with some long-lost third or fourth cousins and their adorable, big-eyed daughters
• saw Three Sisters performed, lapsed into a coma induced by too much melancholy
• went hiking along the Columbia River Gorge, saw 80 percent of its waterfalls, watched salmon swimming upstream at the Bonneville Dam, had dinner in Hood River

I slept twelve hours last night to recover. And in the next few weeks? A.’s old college roommate, a bartender from our old bar, and A.’s parents will all be making trips to visit. I best catch up on my sleep now.

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