It's been a weird week. I've spent most of it writing, though all I have to show for that are some new pieces of fanfic. Tuesday I was supposed to go down to the temp agency, and have lunch with the people I used to have lunch with every day before they moved away from downtown, but Monday I got so busy with homework that I forgot to call and make an appointment. Regardless, I kept the lunch date, and I'm glad, because it was fun. Those are my only offline Buffy fan friends (besides Terrence), and it was nice to be able to gab about the show and spoilers and such with no typing involved. Not that that's all we talked about.

That afternoon my baby sis came over bearing belated birthday presents (speaking of which, thanks Eleni!), and then she, our mom and I all went to visit my aunt in the hospital. She was there to have surgery for pancreatic cancer. She's one of my dad's many sisters, and I really never knew her that well. I was sad for her, but to be brutally honest, when I saw how bad she looked, I felt relieved that I wasn't close to her. Even so, I was happy to see her.

After the hospital we went out to eat, and after that we stopped off at Wal-Mart and I picked myself up an HP Pavilion something or other with twice as much memory as my laptop and a CD burner. Happy birthday to me, indeed. So far, I couldn't be more pleased with it; but I forgot to pick up a pack of recordable CD's, so I haven't had a chance to play with that particular feature yet.

Yesterday, my aunt died. As such, I'm very glad we went to see her the other night. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, because she really didn't look good; but it was still a shock. We knew she didn't have much time left, short of a miracle, but we were counting in weeks, not in hours. The funeral is this Saturday. This will mark the fifth Cousins family funeral I'll have been to in 7 years. Something ain't right with that picture, folks.

Anyway. I still have to convert the rest of the site to the new design, and that will probably take me a few days, so just be patient. Not that any of you ever look at anything but this page anyway. I know how you are. I can see you, you know.