Update

Hi o______o. It's been awhile. I haven't been posting because I was busy moving back to Minnesota from Berlin. The move back was a lot less stressful than the move there, although I was working on a paper up until the very last full day I was there in between packing, cleaning, and doing paperwork. I didn't get much sleep, but that somehow wasn't too much of a problem. I didn't even get sick like I did after I lost two nights of sleep on my way to Berlin last September =D.

One advantageous side effect of having been away from most of my stuff for so long is that it's become really easy to get rid of things. I've been meaning to get rid of pretty much everything except the clothes I wear the most, a few old toys, and my books/CDs/DVDs for awhile, but some of the things that I really liked as a teenager were hard to part with. Not so anymore. So I've been rushing to get rid of things I don't actually want before I get used to having them again. After this round of purging it's looking like I might actually feel like the amount of stuff I've accumulated is under control, which isn't a feeling I can recall experiencing before now. A lot of stuff is going to the thrift store, but I should be able to sell some of it, and I'm hoping I'll be able to make enough money to pay for Christmas presents and pre-registration to Anime Detour.

Right now I'm also catching up on the comic series I wasn't reading in Berlin. But more importantly, I have access to my mom's sewing machine again, so I've started working on a black jumperskirt. I'm hoping to have that done in the next two weeks, and I've also got plans to make a blouse and a pair of short pants if I have enough fabric. But we'll see.

So far I haven't been here long enough to get sick of Minnesota. Minneapolis and St. Paul are still slightly novel to me, and I'm keeping myself busy with reading and sewing, so I'm not missing Berlin too badly. That may change once the new semester starts in September. All I can do is wait and find out.

I'm hoping I'll manage to post regularly for the next two weeks in spite of the distractions. The last week in August I will be traveling again, so there will probably be no posts then, but I will be back after Labor Day (first Monday of September if you're outside the US). Hope your summer is going well!