Plants

Whoa, I haven't blogged for nearly a whole month. Yikes. If I actually had more of an audience I'd be more ashamed about it, but... life goes on. I haven't gotten much written of my own doing for the newspaper either, but I'll blame that (again) on some ongoing internal issues/conflicts/exasperation with the whole beast. I love and hate it at the same time. (or more specifically, there are some parts of it I love, and other aspects that are driving me batty and make me want to scream. Take your guesses at what those might be!) 

Lately, I have been thinking about plants (among other things; the other things I've thought about include stuff like how I've neglected this blog, and Glenn Thrush, but we'll get to that later). The thought came about because I was pondering about what might make a good gift for a certain someone who I regard highly and who deserves a nice holiday/end of semester present from myself and some other people who the present can collectively be from. 

I considered the idea of a plant, but then I started thinking about how not everyone is really a plant person. Not everyone's idea of a good gift is a plant. Not that I think a plant would be a really horrible gift in this situation; it's perfectly decent, just maybe not the exact best choice for the recipient in mind.  

By the time I'm getting around to finishing this post, I've sort of decided on a fitting present (that's not a plant) and have downloaded an app where you grow your own virtual plants, since I don't have a real physical plant at the moment. The virtual plants are... cute and nice, and the app has pleasant ambient music (sometimes I listen to Swedish radio when I'm trying to work on something and feel like hearing something but not necessarily any specific music -- it's pleasant background noise but not too distracting since I don't understand enough Swedish to know what they're saying). Although, I do wish the plants maybe needed  a little more attention than they do. That they were a bit more interactive. Or something like that. But until I can get an actual plant, this is just going to have to do. 

At the moment, I sort of feel a bit like a plant myself, the kind that has those long skinny leaves sprouting out the top of it since that's sort of what it's been feeling like to have my hair as long as it currently is. I kind of wonder how badly it'd turn out if I tried to cut my own hair. 

Also, I saw a picture of lettuce today and it looked pretty, so it would be interesting to grow my own lettuce. And/or decorative cabbages. A citrus fruit tree might be interesting as well, even though they probably wouldn't do so well in this climate unless they grew in a greenhouse or something. 

So there's a little post, finally. It's not particularly spectacular, but at least it's something. Quite soon it'll be winter break so I should have a lot more time to do whatever I want, which could include dedicating more time to the blog than I have been lately. There were a few other things I'm planning/hoping to get done over the break as well, so we'll just have to wait and see if I actually get them done or not! (among them: potentially, dates... if any of the online dating people seem sufficiently interesting enough for me to actually want to take a chance on and go to the effort of spending time with them in person. I decided that in the event it's a restaurant date, I'll pay for my own food if I liked the person/date enough to want to go on another date, but if not and I found the person boring and the date to be a waste of time, I'll leave them to pay... I think that's fair. Naturally, while online dating/going on dates is hit or miss, I think watching Peter Sarsgaard movies is more likely to be satisfying/fulfilling to me. So there are a number of those I should probably try to watch over the coming weeks.)