Chris is reading HARRY POTTER! And he’s blogging about it. Chris’s bog He’s reading a chapter a day. He hates Harry Potter, but I keep telling him he has to read more than the first two books to form a informed opinion on the series. I hope he changes his mind and decides he loves it. If not, at least he will then know who all the characters are. (If he finishes the series. I’m not sure he will. He’s already discouraged and he’s only read the first chapter of the first book. In exchange I am reading his favorite Star Wars books, but I haven’t started it yet.)

There was a storm here today! And some crazy lightening! There was a huge flash of lightening outside that was so close and loud that it made a car alarm go off, and me scream, and Darwin run. My mom even heard it and she was in Shreveport, but she was also on the phone with me at the time. I do really really really love the rain though. I wish it would rain every day until October.

I have shrunk all of my shorts. So now I have nothing to wear. I have solved this problem by wearing pajamas a lot and occassionally dresses. And today my blue jeans decided to rip across the knee so I now almost have some shorts. Woo!

I. hate. Texas.

It’s a good kind of hate though. It feels like the same hate that I had for the girls I went to school with when I was in 8th grade. It’s an 8th grade hate. Pure and uncomplicated.

HERE ARE THE REASONS WHY:

1) Traffic. I absolutely 100% refuse to drive on the interstate. It is NOT going to happen. I’ve also discovered that I don’t even like riding in the car with someone else driving on the interstate to go places. I’m completely convinced that when we get in the middle of all of this traffic with people throwing on their brakes and switching lanes and going a thousand mph that I’m going to be killed in a firey crash. Going places without the interstate is possible, but it is very time consuming and when I give it any thought at all, I always decide that it just really isn’t worth the effort…which brings me to the number 2 reason:
1) The whole DFW area is too big. It’s just too big and too spread out and there are too many people. I just looked it up. The population of the entire area is 6,447,615. That is just way too many people. I hate people.
2) IT IS UGLY. That is a very short sentence and reason why but it is incredibly important. There’s just no outside here.
3) It is hotter than Shreveport. NO REALLY, it is. HOTTER THAN SHREVEPORT. The forecast consists of endless days with 99-100 degree temperatures. I have moved to a city HOTTER than Shreveport!
4) Apparently, I get much crazier in the head when I don’t have various family members and friends to keep me entertained while I am stuck indoors during my summer prison sentence. So me + living in a hotter than Shreveport temperatures with no one to play Scrabble with and no dogs to hug and various goings on (stupid family drama and whatnot to occupy my thoughts)…means the summer is 10,000,000x worse than most.
5) Since I have been here, I have applied for a lot of jobs, contacted a lot of legal recruiting agencies. A LOT of them. And I have gotten exactly zero responses from any of them. WTF!

I am coping by carrying around an atlas and daydreaming about far away places and rewatching the entire series of Northern Exposure.

Here’s a list of good things:
1) Living with Chris is fun!
2) Our apartment is pretty!
3) The neighborhood where we live is quiet.

I don’t wish I hadn’t moved, because I have learned very important things! Like….I hate it here. I wouldn’t have known that if we hadn’t moved. And now I know that 6.4 million people is way too many people. I require a city smaller than that. And I require one that is cooler since I’m not capable of living in a hot city that isn’t Shreveport. Those are all important things.

In 101 days it will be October and the weather will be cooler and I’ll get to go see the dinosaur footprints in Glenrose, TX. That will be fun. And I’ll go to the butterfly house!

But even winter and cold weather isn’t going to change my mind about Texas. Some times I just know things, and this is one of those things that I just know.

AND THAT IS MY LOVELY SUMMER! How’s yours?

*facepalms*

#1. My dog died. Is there a more depressing way to start off a blog post? I don’t think so. My parents had to take her to the emergency vet in the middle of the night on Saturday to have her put to sleep. She hurt her back the day before and then started having seizures on Saturday night. She was 17, so she was ancient for a dog. But it is still the saddest thing ever and I cried buckets. She was the first dog we ever had! She’s now buried in the backyard with her favorite toy, next to my Aunt’s dog.

#2. I’m enjoying my transcriptioning a lot! It’s mostly workers’ compensation court things from California, but I have gotten a few really weird things to listen to. I like the really weird things the best. Because I’m new at it, I get proofread so I feel like I’m back in school when I get their grades. Instead of A,B,C,D,F they use 5,4,3,2,1.

#3. Erin is coming to visit me this weekend! I’m so excited! She already has a list of places where she wants to go shopping.

#4. I am wearing a very happy yellow dress right now.

#5. 115 days until summer is over.

#6. I really loved the episode of Dr. Who with Van Gogh in it. I loved that guy that played Van Gogh, I can’t think of his name but I’ve seen him in things. It’s my favorite so far with the new doctor. And really the first episode with doctor giant head where I actually felt like he was the doctor and I liked him. It takes me a while to get used to people.

#7. Tried to watch the movie The Road last night. We watched an hour of it, and it was the longest hour ever.

#8. Darwin v. Squirrel