Love God?

It was November before the temperature dipped below 85 degrees. I was standing outside of the terminal, waiting, when I found an old message from you hidden inside my favorite book that I picked up from my shelve on the way out. It was a postcard, one with daisies, that read, "Doing fine," and some other cliched term of endearment that quickly made the pain return. I walked to the trashcan, hesitated, and then threw it away. Our love was in the spring when the smell of flower filled the air, before our innocence was lost, and that time had passed.

I read something similar to this topic by a facebook friend, but thought that his ending didn't really fit; his protagonist kept the written message. So my writing was in response to his.

*No idea why, but when I wrote Love in the title bar, in the drop down menu Love God? appeared. Thought it was as good a title as any and chose it... or possibly it chose me.

I'm Not Dead, Yet!

I'm sorry for the awful inconsistency of my blogs, I've been very busy with life and school. So, with the apology out of the way, here's a list of things that have happened since I last wrote on this thing... a year ago. In chronological order:

1) Amanda and I got two dogs. Bogie and Lulu Burns. After looking at the picture for a second, Lulu is the one laying her head on Bogie. So tiny and cute right? Oh how quickly things change. A year later and this is the demon dogs that they've become.

I find the picture on the left to be a fair and balanced representation of them now.

2) Amanda and I were married on December 18, 2010 at our house in an intimate ceremony with only one friend, our parents, siblings and Amanda's niece and nephew present. After that, family members (both blood and not) showed up at our house for the reception and cocktail party. When all was said and done, it was a perfect night.

3) I successfully defended my thesis March 25, 2011; one of the worst experiences of my life. Now looking back, I feel I wasn't prepared enough by my thesis director, didn't have a good enough grasp on the history of postmodernity, and could have used about two more weeks to try and get it 'right.' To be honest though, I don't think one of my thesis chairs would ever have been happy with it. The biggest injury was the fact that my thesis director thought it went well. Earlier, I had asked what a good defense would be like, and she said that a good defense was nothing more than a really engaging conversation, where people are jumping in and interrupting each other to talk about different topics. However, she failed to mention to me that those conversations would not include me, and that those topics would be about how I should have done things differently. Longest hour I ever experienced, but I learned a lot in that hour and it was helpful for the final revised product.

4) While I now had a defended thesis, that did not mean that I was done. I rewrote my thesis and turned in the revised copy in mid-April (I don't remember the date). Because I didn't meet the April 1st deadline for turning in my completed thesis, I do not get to graduate until August, even though I am 'officially' done with school. I consider myself a graduate at this point, and am just waiting for the paper conferring upon me my Master's of English Literature.

5) This is the best news: Amanda's got a bun in the oven! As of Sunday she's 10 weeks. At the moment we're throwing around Alice for a girls name (or whatever other name strikes Amanda's fancy at any given hormonal moment) and if it's a boy we're going to name it Atticus (if you do not know where that literary name comes from, go read a book). The due date was initially on our wedding anniversary, but as of right now, the doctor says December 23.

While life has been stressful this last year, I wouldn't have changed anything I've done, and am very happy. I'm going to try to be better about updating this thingamajig, but until then, hope that this meets everyone well.