I can be lazy

Hmmm, two whole weeks without a post. Go me. In my defense, a reliable Internet connection has been rather hard to come by at my place, and I'd prefer not to blog while at work. But whatever, I'm back, and I'm sure everyone missed me : )
Biggest news of the past two weeks is that Meg left on Monday. So now I am definitely alone out here. It's good in some ways - I can explore things on my own, establish my own schedule, focus on myself - but in other ways it's not so good - it can get lonely, and going to places by myself isn't all that fun. But I'm a big girl, and I can handle this. I'm about to the halfway point of my time out here, which is refreshing and hard to believe. In many ways I feel like I've been here forever - I've got the freeway system down pretty well; I've got favorite places to eat and favorite parts of the city; and I miss home, and my family and friends quite a bit. But I also realize that five weeks is not that long, not nearly enough time to really get to know a place. That's like half of a quarter at OU. And speaking of OU, I'm experiencing my first bout of Athens withdrawl at the moment. The feeling is probably pretty close to what a coke addict goes through - yeah probably not at all.
I'm sitting here on my balcony, and I don't know if I've mentioned this, but San Diego is a pretty big military town, and I live close to several bases - closest, apparently, to the one from which many planes take off. For my Cleveland people, living here is like the air show every day. Some days the noise is so loud I feel like I should duck and cover. When I go out running or when I'm waiting to get onto the freeway, I can usually spot two or three fighter jets in a 10-minute span. It's pretty cool most of the time. I like planes, and big, loud planes that can do tricks are by default even better than regular planes. The times when it is not cool is when they decide to fly the planes early in the morning - and by early I mean like 9. Cut me some slack, I work cop-editor's hours.
Oh, by the way, if you haven't seen, I (finally) posted more pictures of what I've been doing out here to Facebook for your viewing pleasure. Note also that in the latest shots my hair is considerably shorter. I decided to get it cut because I was getting sick of my hair but also to mark the mood of this summer. Maybe I'll get into that more later, but then again maybe not.