quick October update

Most mornings I wake up as late as possible -- note, it's still dark outside up here at 6:45 AM in October, though I felt like it never got truly black here in July and August -- and the first thing I do is pick up my computer and do about a ten minute check of my blogs and New York Times opinion columns. Once I realize how slow my computer is, I get up, turn on the coffee maker, and pour myself some cereal. The recent delicious find, and cheapest find at the nearby Grocery Outlet, is Wild Animal Crunch.

It has vanilla and chocolate-swirled goodness shaped in the form of bears, turtles, and some other 4-legged animal. Yes, I bought the one with the meerkats in the front, in part due to my past obsession with Meerkat Manor.
I usually crawl back in my nice, warm bed with my delicious cereal in hand and read all the websites that loaded during my absence. Monday morning, I came across this image:

I slowly chewed on the sweet, crunchy mush substance in my mouth and felt kind of guilty. That cat just looked so much like the meerkat on my cereal box, and now I was eating the manifestation of its wild animal posse in sugary rice form. Monday morning guilt trip!

I want to be writing more in this blog, but logging 56 and 60 hour weeks doesn't allow for much else to be done. I will say that I'm taking a french class, got my bike road ready, gained a space heater in my room, am learning more street slang than I ever imagined existed, played basketball with a bunch of male co-workers, went solo to a Ben Kweller concert, and am exploring my future opportunities. Hopefully I'll go hiking more this weekend and I'll have more relevant pictures to post, but for now my bed is my favorite cuddle buddy.