The summer is over..

Well sportsfans.. Summer is over.. The Olympics have concluded.. Back to school sales ads are interrupting our Steelers coverage, and I can smell ribs cooking at Heinz Field. The one thing I can take from this is that I'm re-learning how to be a good human. The vacation I had was exactly what I needed. I'm glad Larry is doing well.. He's had too much heartache to go through the same stuff again..

The two things I hated most about last summer have crept in again.. Loneliness and boredom.. Two things that go together well.. (NOT) I just don't know how to combat it's evil doings. I do have a hard time not letting it in.. Coach Herb would say that my defensive skills are a bit off, and need to work on them.. Oh, if it were just as easy as doing an hours worth of Herbies.. But it's not that easy, is it? Sometimes I find it hard trying to cope with it.. So I sit, and watch endless hours of telly, read copious amounts of musical literature, and bike insanely.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going to be all alone for the rest of my life. Before you say, "But you're Orthodox.. You're NEVER alone," let me say that I only mean I'm tired of not having human companionship around. I have found that most of the people I know don't like to "just hang." There always has to be a reason for get-togethers.. Nobody wants to go to the park and hang out, or throw or kick a football around. Why can't we just meet at a park for a picnic?? Then again, I'm the sort that has a friend wake him up to say.. "Wanna go to St. Louis tomorrow??"

Loneliness sucks! Where's the remote..

~R