Neglected...

I can't believe that it has been over a month since I have written in this journal. It's kind of a waste of bandwidth to start a blog and then not write in it. This will not be one of those blogs.

Let's see...what has happened since the last time I posted in this journal. My social security was cut almost in half, I still don't have a job, and I am taking a Russian class at Penobscot School in Rockland, Maine from a delightful Russian woman who has been in this country for 13 years. I am learning a great deal there, but I kind of wish that I hadn't joined the class in mid-steam, as it were.

Also, Vitaly, the Ukrainian foreign-exchange student we hosted almost ten years ago, is here visitng us. It is great to have him here because culture is a fabulous thing, and he brings chocolates and champaigne from Ukraine, which is always a plus. But the best thing that happens when he comes is that he makes my mother smile, and he makes her forget about my father, which is a pretty daunting task within itself. Everything she talks about still comes back to my father, or Sallye, or both. I see people all the time who seem to only be able to talk about one subject. I hope that one day, Mom can get off her hamster's wheel and start thinking about other things.

Poker night has been going strong, but I can feel it starting to peter out. Kate thinks it's a hassle for her friends to travel all the way from the Rockland just to play cards. Right now her friends are what is keeping the night going. If her friends stop coming, we'll be back to watching pointless television shows night after night. Why don't you invite your friends to come to poker night, you ask? Well, most of my friends are in Portland, and it wouldn't be as feasible to get them here every week just to play poker. So poker night may be no more...just because Kate is too tired to organize it. I need a social life!

later!