Believe it or not, part of the reason I haven’t blogged in so long I actually am not allowed to talk about at the moment for legal reasons. (It has to do with my newspaper…) But suffice it to say, my life has been absolutely consumed since last weekend by psychiatric quantities of headache-causing drama.
Thankfully, it all seems to be wrapping up about now, so I can get back to the rest of my life.
On a sad note, on the same day that all this craziness was coming to a peak, Madame Mirabelle, my wonderful frog, died. Nothing really to say on that subject, but I’m really sad about it, even though I only had her for a few weeks.
Gonna talk about other things though, that are less depressing… Last weekend, I went to Boston and Maine with Tom and his family for his cousin’s wedding. It was a wonderful break from my routine, and a lovely trip. Tom’s parents have an adorable house on a lake up there, and it was just cold enough to really feel like a New England fall.
Oh, and we went to Tom’s grandparents’ house, where there are drawings on the wall that he did as a child.
SO CUTE!!!
Most importantly, now that the weather is all autumny and stuff, pumpkin pie is in season again! I’ve been eating as much pumpkin pie as I can without gaining back the 14 pounds I’ve lost since my epic summer weight gain.
Helping me to accomplish this goal is the greenmarket next to Columbia, which has a stand that sells these:

FIRST OF ALL, how adorable is that???
Anything that tiny is cute. Second, yay I can eat a whole delicious pumpkin pie without… you know, eating a whole pumpkin pie. Fantastic. Best discovery ever.
And here’s your newest chance to tell me you’re sick of seeing my drawings from drawing class, but I actually ended up really liking today’s project, so I’m going to include it here.
The assignment was a mixed-media collage/drawing/India ink situation, and for once, I love how mine turned out:

The face is made of print-outs from various images from FFFFound, and the girl on the right (I pasted her on the paper, then cut out the whole thing, then pasted the whole thing back on) is an image of a sculpture of a girl holding a scissors, which I thought was apt.
And on that note, onto more bloggy things!
Beautiful & Gorgeous Blogger Award
Alice from onlyanne.com has generously awarded me a Beautiful & Gorgeous Blogger Award (Awww thank youuu!!!), which requires me to list 7 things I think may be interesting to y’all, and then pass the award to 7 blogs. Lists after the jump!

him) Then I decided that as long as we were going to the other side of the world, we might as well go all out. Yesterday we finally purchased our tickets, and below is our final itinerary.
) and possibly learn lots of other languages.
Since I realized I’m going to be in Japan for 2 weeks next summer (OMG OMG OMG) I’ve started to get more into teaching myself Japanese.









