A little bit of "hey we share a wall" etiquette - posted at 12:09

A brief note on style and being a good neighbor:

If you know that you are, say, a moaner or a screamer, please please please don't have sex with the windows open. It's really not as much fun as you would think for your neighbors on either side to be in the middle of a conversation outside and to all of a sudden have to try to talk over your screaming orgasm. I can accept the fact that our bedroom walls are shared and that sometimes you wake me up out of a dead sleep while you and your husband are, ah, amusing each other. But I really really don't think that I should have to deal with the proof that you are indeed have a rollicking good time while I am in my back yard.

Long time no see - posted at 22:03

A lot's happened since I was able to post last - I've traveled to Pennsylvania, Hawaii, California, and Texas, celebrated a wedding anniversary for the first time, qualified for my first national swim meet, competed in that national swim meet, tried my hand at open-ocean swimming, had a panic attack while trying my hand at open-ocean swimming, snorkeled with the humuhumunukunukuapua'a, sang a song about how to remember the name of the humuhumunukunukuapua'a about three hundred times, tried fifteen wines in a single tasting, endured a late-April blizzard, caught the Martian death flu, and knit way too much. It's been fun but I'm really relieved to be back at home. And once I get over this Martian death flu, I intend to start having some serious Alaska adventures because my friends, spring has finally sprung.