We've been having a fly problem. It started yesterday. I made Aaron go after them all with a magazine--I pointed them out, and he would go after them. It was like having a mercenary. A lot of the flies like to convene on the back door, because it's sort of like a huge window, and I guess they are attracted to the light. We spent so much time hovered by the backdoor with a rolled up magazine spearing at the cracks between the blinds that last night, Dwight started standing by the back door thumping at flies with his nose. So today, we got one of those tennis racket-shaped bug zappers, and it's been quite satisfying massacreing those dirt worshipping heathens. (We've also been watching Deadwood.)

Hmm...if you've been wondering, I have felt a great lack of creativity lately, and no flow in my writing. So I've been blogging less. Too much tv watching, I guess. And by TV I mean HBO miniseries that we get on DVD from Blockbuster. We've gone through Big Love and Entourage, and now we're working on Deadwood. I think Deadwood is my favorite by far, but each created it's own little obsession for a while.

The marriage license got here yesterday! So now we can go through the tedious process of figuring out how to change my name on all of the random paperwork that exists in my life. I guess the first step is driver's license and social security card. Also passport for our trip to Taiwan in December. But what about credit cards, bank accounts and school? I have a bad feeling that I'm going to need to be thorough or something's going to happen like getting my med degree in my maiden name and by that time, no one will believe it's me. But wherever possible, I'm going to try to get them to include Tseng as my middle name. It's not quite fair, I think, that white girls' changing their names for marriage is not quite as drastic as all this--at least their last name keeps their race. Oh, unless they marry an Asian guy or Nigerian guy or something...

On the subject of marriage, we got a bed! It was very exciting going to Ikea and dropping a whole wad of money and getting all the different components of a bed--frame, mattress, and we even got a mattress topper! We decided to go mod and get everything white. So now we have a white bed frame, white sheets, etc. Also, we got a really cool gift card to West Elm (somebody tried to buy us some class...lol) and we got a white coffee table to go upstairs and hold a TV. Since we have two now, we put one upstairs. But it's only for video games and DVD watching.
Eek! I love my new room.

Other things: I might try to get a job tutoring a few hours a week, the kitten found a (I think) good new home, and Aaron is almost entirely moved out from his previous residence.