first post: HI

hello!
this is a blog that i am using to help get me through the summer. what i mean by this is that i'm living at my family home for the first time in five years, basically in the middle of nowhere, at least 2 and a half hours from most (not all) of my friends (but even the ones that are close are 30 minutes away). life is currently weird and somewhat lonely, and i need a place to write about things i'm interested in, write about things that i observe, write about anything, since i'm relatively alone and far from my friends. also, i can't work, because i'm getting a kidney transplant at the end of june, and plasmapheresis before and after the transplant. it's not something that most people can relate to/want to talk about as much as i do, understandably, so i figure this is the best place i can vent about it and whatnot.

i hope to make the best of the summer despite these things. i hope to do this by having a piano in my room, and by having at least one of the four available cats on or near the piano at most times. i'm getting the piano from craigslist. a regular old upright. it's incredible how many people are looking to get rid of perfectly good pianos that just need to be tuned. i also hope to make the best of the summer by having a netflix account, and by listening to music, and by reading new books, and by jumping on the giant trampoline my little brother and his friends have transplanted into the woods behind my house, and by walking through these woods. i'm reading bukowski right now, tales of ordinary madness. i like bukowski a lot, aside from his almost incessant degradation of women and his obsession with the word "rape." aside from this, he's pretty funny. if you have any book/music suggestions, please, by all means, suggest away! until next time.