Monday Mutterings: July Full Moon/Power Outages

The July full moon, also known as the Blessing Moon, began yesterday evening.  However, for myself and my friends living in the Tri-State area, we could not see her.  For the past few days Mother Nature has been sending us some interesting weather, including some water spouts and tornadoes.  We lost power at my house for about two hours yesterday, which isn't too serious, but it made me a bit crazy since the outage was shorty before True Blood.  The Lord and Lady must understand my lust for Eric Northman because power was restored 10 minutes before the show was about to begin.

Later today I will be posting my July full moon ritual.  I need to complete homework for my Shakespeare Graduate class as well as dragging my rear end to the gym.  I've been a bit of a slacker on my weightloss regimine.  I did want to post a picture of my power outage activity with the hubby from yesterday.  It seems like I always go back to the same activity when the lights go out: puzzles.  I rounded up some candles and the hubby and I set to work on seperating our pieces by color and type.  It's a work in progress but it will be a nice indoor activity when the humidity spikes.

You have to click on the photo to really see the puzzle pieces, but it was a lot of fun sitting by candlelight.  It gave me some ideas for candle chandeliers when I have my own house. 

Oryx and Crake

It's been a long road that I've travelled this week.  My husband's grandmother passed - don't be sorry though - I'd spoken to the women three times in my life and she was nasty and bitter.  My husband wasn't too close to her either.  We went to the funeral in New Jersey on Friday and that was that. 

In other, less depressing news, I'm more than halfway through my next book for my Graduate class, Writing After the End.  All of the literature in this course is Post-Apocalypse/Post-Collapse themed.  It's a bit depressing but still eye opening.  For this unit we were able to choose from three novels The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.  I chose the last novel and boy is it frightening.  I've even made a liner note for myself: "If this is our future, I want out now!" If anyone needs a good summer read or inspiraton to be green, please read this book.  There is a sequel that came out last year, The Year of the Flood, which I plan on reading once I'm done with this book.  It's dark, but I'm realling enjoying it.  

Graduate School

I'm sorry that I haven't been posting again, but summer session for Graduate school has begun!  My first class is on post-apocolypse literature and it's a bit depressing.  The first novel I have to read is called Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban.  It is a very odd book and is completely written in phonetic Kent dialect.  I've only been able to get through 2 of the 17 chapters so far and I have to finish the novel by Monday night.  This is the first time I've really ever been worried about passing an English class.  I've never encountered a book like this before and, quite frankly, I'm intimidated by the posts I've been reading from my classmates on the online Blackboard system.  A few of them are PhD./DA students and far better read than I will ever be.  For the first time in a long time, I'm at a loss and a disadvantage in a college class.  I was able to find a way to catch up in the past, but this book has really put a blockade in front of me.  So, while I try to understand this book, my posts may be very short or just full of Fur Babies.  I don't want to leave my readers without pictures of Frankie and Marty!

It's done

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I just submitted my final paper for my research class.  I'm one step closer to my Masters Degree.  Now, I can really work on my blog!  I know I won't be getting an A in the class, but at least it's over.