Fourth of July festvities, and new paint

I know, I know, I haven't blogged in a long time. It's actually been pretty busy around here lately, and no, I'm not just saying that.

I spent Tuesday in the Worcester office of The Landmark, editing and such, which was pretty cool despite the fact that it was a super slow day and the highlight was watching everyone in the office looking out the windows to make sure their cars wouldn't get ticketed.

Wednesday I went into the office again (in Holden this time) and did my usual stalking of people and places I could possibly write about. My editor gave me a story about a 13 year old boy in Rutland who races RC cars and has national sponsorship now. I tried to get in touch with him but so far no luck, which means I'm over deadline. Ruh roh.

I talked to the kid's grandmother, though, which is another story in itself. I don't want to say much because I don't know who reads this, but let me say this: ten cats.

This weekend, though, was by far the best of the summer so far. Rich, my boyfriend, came to visit me! Yay! His family went to the Cape for a few days and dropped him off here on their way home so we had about 3 days together. We went to Walden Pond and putted around in a little canoe, went on a real date (yay!) to dinner at one of my favorite places, O'Connor's in Worcester. If any of you live near here, you should check it out. Delicioso.

We went to see the new Pirates movie, too, which didn't disappoint. It was very good. And I bought a huge thing of popcorn so we got bloated and happy (me more than Rich...I like my popcorn) :)

Rich had to leave yesterday, which is very sad. :( It's lonely here now.

To keep busy I finished peeling all of the wallpaper out of my room in between working on that article and my internship paper. I feel like I have a lot of stuff left to do with all of that, and with my research work. Gahh. I don't know what to do - I really hope I can finish it all.

I painted my room, too, so now it's two different shades of blue, a far cry from the bright pinky-orange of the wallpaper, which made it look like the whole room was on fire whenever I turned my light on. Now it's nice and calming.

Anyway, Happy Fourth of July. Go watch some fireworks and eat a hot dog for me.