I miss people. Really. I've never considered myself a social person, but I miss being around people. Stuck here at home, I have no one to talk to. There's not even anyone online for me to IM. (I downloaded AIM yesterday, but I think running AIM and CompuServe IM at the same time screws them both up.) This means that I'm probably just going to waste time online for a while, then go practice for my piano recital, then attempt my physics homework. Really, Dr. J, could you teach anything less useful?
Thanksgiving was... the norm, I suppose. Thanksgiving dinner always seems to be more like Thanksgiving linner (a cross between lunch and dinner, sometime around 3 PM) to me. Who eats that early (or late, depending on how you look at it)? We went to my mom's parents' house first to eat. My dad insisted we wait until halftime to switch houses, but we overshot it and left during the third quarter. (Don't assume I understand football just because I used the terminology just now. I don't.
Bowling is more interesting.) There were more people at... the other house. (I don't have a good name for it. My grandma died last summer, and my grandfather remarried, but "Papa and Bridgette's house" doesn't have the same ring to it.) True to my nature, I sat downstairs and read a book. I'm too young for the adults upstairs, and too old for the kids downstairs, so I just find somewhere to sit and tune out the noise. We left late. I suspect my dad was drinking, because everything was insanely funny to him, but we made it home in one piece, so I'm good.
I just finished reading two books by Margaret Peterson Haddix,
Leaving Fishers and
Just Ella.
Leaving Fishers is about a girl name Dorry who moves to a city from the small town she's known all her life. In her search for new friends, she joins a religious group called the Fishers of Men. Dorry is drawn in by their promises of love and redemption, but soon realizes that she is in a cult, and desperately fights to get out.
Just Ella is a take on the classic Cinderella story. Cinders-Ella has married the handsome Prince Charming, and is on her way to becoming a princess. But she soon realizes that true love isn't always a fairy tale. Prince Charming is boring. Ella is bored. She longs to live her life the way she wants to, and to be able to treat the prince like her young tutor, Jed. She just wants to be Ella. Both of these books were exceptional, but my words don't do them justice. Try
this or
this.
Off to read more
AtE. Tschau.
