my life is draggin its feet

Still no condo, no boyfriend, no end to my paper, and August is almost over. Where has my Summer gone? What have I been doing?

Okay, looking over my appointments in Shiny the end of July/beginning of August has been busy: I've been away a bunch of weekends and had dates interspersed in between. And I guess in early July I went to NYC and California for family stuff, which was tiring and at times depressing, and which also takes time to recover from. But classes ended in May! How have I not finished this paper yet?

I guess the condo thing I can't really rush. I just haven't seen the place I'm going to buy yet (the Bigelow St. row house notwithstanding.) But my dad has been really dragging his feet getting my down payment money ready for a speedy purchase. So that's a partial delay that feels worse than it actually is. I do need to keep prodding Dad until he coughs up a bank statement I can give the bank, but other than that I'm in relatively good shape.

Next: dating. Okay, so I don't have a date lined up every night of the week. But it's not like there are all these great guys banging on my door. The pickings on OkCupid have been slim! It seems I can only get 60% of the way to a match no matter what direction I go in. As it stands I'm set to go on a blind date selected by someone who met me for a couple of hours. I guess I just have to keep reminding myself that this could take a really long time and probably has very little to do with skill (i.e. it doesn't depend on improving my selection/sifting algorithm.) And I suppose the same can be said for buying a condo: it's a matter of time and perseverance.

Now the paper... bane of my existence, scourge of Summer. The thing that's basically made it impossible for me to take the time (although the expense would have been difficult to come by in any case) to take a week to go to England to visit Dini, Birgit and Carol. Although, now that I put it into perspective, I guess it hasn't been a terrible impediment to dating and looking for a house. If anything it's played the victim to those competing processes.

Hrm. I guess maybe my problem then is impatience. I've been expecting more from my Summer than it could feasibly deliver. I do need to refocus and push through the end of the paper, but it seems everything else is kind of on track. And I think I can manage that.