First off, I must apologize for my long absence.  I’ve been feeling alternately lazy and apathetic and have not been blogging like I hoped to be once all the wedding and moving stuff was done with.  Enter the holidays and my free time is down to none.  Also, I have no energy and am super tired lately.

However, I’ve been following the Kyle Deemer murder trial almost obsessively and am glad to report that justice has been served.  I guess I never really wrote about what inspired that poem, so I’ll cover it here because otherwise it won’t make any sense.  So last fall a classmate of mine and a friend of his were shot to death north of Marshalltown last fall.  The article I linked to above explains the rest.  The whole thing has really been bugging me lately; his trial started last week and they wrapped it up yesterday.  It took the jury less than two hours to convict him.  Now if only we had the death penalty.  I think a firing squad would do the job nicely and would be rather poetic justice.

I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately, but it’s mostly been letters and diary entries.  I’m participating in a journal exchange and so far, it’s been a lot of fun, although I seem to have trouble finding time to write with everything that’s going on lately.  I think I’ll make a copy of the journal when it’s all done because it’s a permanent exchange and I’d like to have a copy of what I’ve written.  I also joined the American Legion Auxiliary and am looking forward to getting involved in that.

And now I think I’ll go back to munching on Bugles in an attempt to settle my tummy.  Happy Hump Day!

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