In a raging fit of not being able to write an essay that I need desperately to finish, I've decided instead, to poke around on DA. I really would like to draw, and maybe do an update or something, but alas, I can't draw until all my homework is done. D:

This school thing has been a generally pleasant experience, although I'm anxiously looking forward to classes actually geared around my major. I'm settling into life around her. Still haven't gotten to do the museum visits that I want to do, because I've been a bit on the busy side with school work, but that's okay. There will be time in the near future I hope. I'd like get my ass down to the Boston Public library and do some hardcore explorin', really. What little I've glimpsed of the interior of that building is literary bliss (and architectural bliss as well; the building itself, while labyrinthine, is gorgeous). I highly recommend checking it out if anyone's ever in the Boson area; I never visited the BPL in all the times I came to Boston before now and that's just embarrassing. My dwindling money has unfortunately, kept me from doing and seeing some of the things I would like, but that's okay. It just means I have to try harder to find free avenues of entertainment and exploration!

Fall is upon us now, so the weather's getting a bit chilly, but everything else is just getting prettier and prettier. I'll never complain about one thing in New England; the seasonal changes. I've always really loved the pronounced changes from season to season...you don't quite get that on the west coast, and down south. It's what I miss the most when I go away during fall or winter.

But on a not school-and-weather-related note; I've finally started to wiggle out of my art slump I've been in since I got here. I still find it difficult to draw in my room, mostly for lack of a truly comfortable place to draw, but I've been doing some decent art during classes (not that anyone should be doodling during class. Pay attention) and I've been doing some EXCELLENT plot work as well, for some reason. I would say that in general, although I'm still not drawing as frequently as I would like, things in the art department are on the upslide.

And now that it's officially fall, as I mentioned above, I'm quite excited about the SEASONAL ACTIVITIES that accompany autumn. Things like pumpkin flavored baked goods, and hot apple cider, and apple picking, and pumpkin carving. Lots of cafes are breaking out seasonal specialties now too, like pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks, and apple cinnamon cookies in bakeries. It's a season of deliciousness, there is no doubt. A lot of these things are very New England traditions as well, so it's a great time to be North easterner.

Does anyone have any particular activities or favorite traditions they love about the fall season?