Pure and Complicated
After spending a week in San Francisco for the AEJMC conference, I am finally back to the land of the living. Although I love the big city and everything it has to offer, I must say that it was nice to get home and hear the crickets singing in my yard and the wind blowing through the trees … if only it weren’t so blasted hot while enjoying such things.
Since returning home, I have been making a valiant effort to enjoy what is left of the Summer before the Fall semester onslaught of work, classes, and running the media lab begins. For me, this means hunkering down somewhere with air conditioning and working on websites, crafting projects, reading old J.D. Salinger books, spending time with long lost friends, and watching all of the movies that I missed during the school year. So far, it has proven to be a fruitful effort … many scarves and trivets have been knitted, countless beads have been strung, many movies have been checked off of the list, and I am well into my second reading of Frannie and Zooey, a book that is far more interesting than my fourteen year old mind could have known during its first reading. I suppose reading a book about a family wrought with tragedy is more freeing than sitting around worrying about your own family, equally engulfed with stories of love and loss. Sounds pretty ‘pure and complicated’ … just as Salinger let on.
With that in mind, I will set out to live a pure and simple life for the next two weeks as the Summer winds down. To do this, I will continue being a crafting goddess, will change authors once this book is through, and will head to Florida for a nice vacation with my husband and girl dog … and, in true Bright fashion, will return from that vacation the night before school starts with the road on my mind and not a care in the world.
Come Wednesday the 30th it will be back to that whole pure and complicated way of life again.