Dog days

Dear blog,

I feel I've been neglecting you with less-interesting-than-usual posts, or none at all. The fall semester rush is just around the corner, and everything is picking up speed in the office. Makes me regret the time I whiled away in June, because now my "summer projects," still not started (after all, we're only a month into astronomical summer), will be put off or done in a half-assed hurry.

Other news: it's really damn hot. This weekend it's going to be 98, which means the weedy herb garden will go un-weeded and -mulched once again. It has been storming almost every afternoon, though, so nature's doing a better job of watering than my sad little hoses ever could. Everything in so green and beautiful, and the dead spots in the lawn have just about healed over now.

I'm going out to a nice dinner tonight with my manfriend, who I haven't seen in a few weeks (he's been traveling). It's a quasi-date. Very excited. And that's all the news that's fit to print.