- I took a trip out to California for a memorial dinner with my dad's siblings over his birthday weekend and helped my mom fix up the new place she's living, plus saw a few friends and took one trip to the beach;
- I found a great therapist whom I saw for three months, who recently had a baby, but now she's back practicing again;
- I went to the US Social Forum where I saw hundreds of my nearest & dearest, which was amazing;
- I stepped up work around the DC Trans Coalition, where we're working to change the way police in DC (mis)handle transgender and gender-variant folks;
- My mom sold the house, which finally closed escrow a couple of weeks ago;
- Jess and I continue to deepen our relationship (some of you met her at the USSF, others during a brief overlap in California)--it makes me quite amazingly happy;
- I slumped a bit around what would've been my parents' 29th wedding anniversary and was also the anniversary of Elly's departure from DC;
- I took over the rent-paying role at the crazy many-person anarchist-leaning collective house I've been occupying for almost two years now;
- I got promoted at my day job while managing a whole bunch of web-program stuff over the summer. Plus I was representin' on a panel at YearlyKos, the blogger convention. I don't self-identify as a blogger, and I think my lack of posts can testify to that, but really, I clearly am. I mean, here I am, writing a blog and all.
Summer has involved a lot of hiding out at Jess's air-conditioned apartment and a few weekend trips to pretty places, notably the Shenandoah Valley for camping and hiking Old Rag mountain and my pal Ginny's amazing farm just outside of Culpeper, VA. I also took the first-ever personal strategy retreat at Rehoboth Beach, DE where I sat on the beach and read lots of self-help and personal time management and political theory books and got just a little bit closer to having a five-to-ten-year plan.
More to follow...I swear.
