it's half way through october already, seems incredible to me, things have been moving quickly, which is good and bad depending on how one looks at life.

the leaves have started turning in large numbers and the escarpment looks stunning because of it.

i could do a day by day recap of the last week, but unless you were here, it probably wouldn't sound that interesting. but it was a pretty good week overall, except for the greyness of it all. but the rain made the waterfall cool and the sun came out for a little while today so that was nice.

nova's taken to running around like a maniac every night around this time, it's like there's a full moon every night or something.

thanksgiving was nice, i got to see wren and vic and rhiannon, and the family. my crazy cousins were swimming in the pool (53F) on sunday, brrr. we also had dinner on saturday and matt had a fantastic tg party on the thursday.

this upcoming week marks three years since my granny died, and just thinking about it this morning made my eyes tear up. I should finish that quilt, i want to have it done so that i can actually use it effectively, sometimes i forget how much i miss her, and i'm glad i had so much time to know her, i think about my 4 year old cousin who never really got a chance to know her at all and I only hope that all of us can help her and the other younger ones know how great she was. absolutely amazing, i wish she was here sometimes to offer some insight to what i'm supposed to be doing. I try to live in the now with a faint idea about the future, but so much can be lost always planning for a year from now, a year is always a year away, and i like where i am now, so i may as well enjoy it, and that's a weird tangent..

but speaking of the future... i've been trying to figure out what i want to do next year, i'm leaning more and more towards grad school, but until recently i didn't really even know what area of poli sci i wanted to do, silly multiple interests, it's always been the death of me. I was talking to Michael about it and he said something that made good sense and sort of verified where i was leaning, which is grad school with a focus in something applicable, probably in social policy somewhere, and after travel/work time law school to get 'job training' to actually enable me to effectively put knowledge and passion into something useful and rewarding. but i figure if this much can change in a month or so, who know what will happen before next year.

now i should go to bed since i'm tired and all that jazz. rumour has it that pictures make this thing more interesting or at least blog's in general, so i'm going to start stealing the little camera from work.

until then...

this is the cyst i had removed in June. the blob inside the arrows is what they took out, that and the three wisdom teeth also visible.