How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.

Hello, dear neglected blog readers. It seems I've failed to write a blog post for... well, basically all summer. There are many reasons for this, and, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, so I'll spare you the more boring excuses and give you the lowdown on the last two months of my life.

I had many ambitions for my summer, and none were terribly far-reaching, so I'll spare you the gory details and instead illustrate for you how the average day in my summer was spent.

1. Wake up sometime between 10 and 11 a.m.
2. Get online.
3. Play games and chat with Vultures.
4. Eat breakfast.
5. Play more games. Chat some more.
6. Do something productive around the house.
7. Hang out with my family.
8. Have dinner. (Most of the time I skipped lunch.)
9. More hanging out with the family.
10. They go to bed. I get online again.
11. Chatting and/or Buffy-watching with the Scooby Gang.
12. Maybe go to bed before 2 a.m.
13. Probably not.
14. Finally pass out and repeat it all again in a few hours.

It may sound terribly boring, but the summer has been a great refresher for the coming school year. (And isn't that the point?) My three-month summer hiatus from Liberty University was interspersed with a lot of travel and a lot of church activities. I didn't work on a lot of concrete writing projects, but my imagination never shut down, and I have lots of outlines going on files all over my hard drive, so there's no shortage of fictional worlds to explore in my writing soon.

I'm really looking forward to NaNoWriMo '09, taking 15 hours of difficult, strenuous classes this fall semester, and possibly juggling a job in there, too. Should be a while ride, eh? I plan to make this blog a little more life-friendly in the coming months, because I've been focusing on the writing aspect of my life and I wish I'd given myself more freedom to ramble about everything else. So that's your warning. :)

Also, as a sidenote, I'm now on tumblr! (http://ashleyscript.tumblr.com/)