Well, we endured Hurricane Irene the same week as the East Coast Earthquake of 2011, but then we suffered through the drenching rains of Tropical Storm Lee. Lee was much worse than Irene, but it was just rainy here. It didn't flood where I am, thankfully! This morning, there is finally a bit of sun. I'm hoping that we can keep it for a while.
I took the plunge and signed up for Level 3 Basic Sign Language. It looks like only 3 people have signed up though, so I'm not sure the class will go on with that few...which will be disappointing. I'm not the best ASL student, but I'm trying to learn it. I had to go to the main campus of Hagerstown Community College to buy the book (couldn't find it online at a decent price that would get it here, for sure, by Monday's first class) and get a parking pass. It was an ordeal to get a parking pass. At least I didn't have to pay for the pass itself, which is nice, and student parking is right in front of the building where my class will be (if it happens, that is).
I know it's super nerdy, but I've made my annual spreadsheet of Fall TV Shows thanks to some help from Entertainment Weekly. I don't like that EW ignores channels like HBO, Showtime, and AMC. I'm really looking forward to The Walking Dead (October 16th!) and Mad Men (sadly, next year) on AMC. Such awesome shows. I can't watch the zombie show right before bed though. It would give me bad dreams. As it is, the show made me paranoid last year when I watched it. While in my basement doing laundry, I worried that a zombie might be able to see me through the basement window despite the blinds and the curtain and he/she/it would try to break through the basement window when he/she/it sees the basement light and then I'd be toast...or zombie food...whatever. I know that's ridiculous, but if a show can make me think that much about zombies, then it's certainly doing something right.
I am midway through book 3 of the Game of Thrones series. I read so much yesterday that I dreamed crazy dreams with strange violence in them. I don't want this series to ever end. The paperback books are all nearly 1,000 pages, but it's still not enough. I have the rest of book 3, then book 4 and then book 5 was just released in hardcover. I just might have to get a Kindle (I've been fighting that urge) because it's gonna hurt my hands to try to hold a book that big and read it. The author, George R. R. Martin has been writing this series since 1996 and I'm just now inhaling the books due to the HBO show of the same name that I adored. It's going to be quite difficult to wait for books 6 and 7 to be written. It sounds like it will be years and years from now before they're released. Some things are difficult to wait for, but definitely worth the wait!
I don't have any picture to post today, sadly. It's been so wet, that I haven't really been able to get out and do anything. I tried to take pictures of my dog Max who isn't doing so well, but he didn't really want to cooperate and he cried when I tried to pick him up. Oh well. I wanted to capture what I saw last night in my backyard, but I don't think it would have come out as cool as what I saw. Fog was slowly creeping across the long, shared back yard which borders the fence separating us from the Western Maryland Rail Yard. The lights from the rail yard are always too bright, but the fog made them look eerie and surreal. Maybe I'll learn how to photograph fog at some point. I guess fog at night is even more challenging.
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