i am not yet dead!

So I just realized that it's been nearly a month since I last posted. It's been one of those months where I concoct witty blog entries in my head while I'm at work, then come home and promptly forget what I wanted to talk about. So you'll just have to settle for a brief list of interesting things that have happened since you last heard from Emmalinda:

• attended two weddings in as many weekends.
  
• road-tripped to PA and back
• accidentally woke up at 6 am, drove to a school...and then checked my voice mail to find that my substitute services were no longer required
• subbed for the one and only noltinator at GHS
  
• baked a pumpkin pie with fresh pumpkin and soy milk in the filling, which was pronounced delicious by my crust connoisseur of a boyfriend
• heard Chanticleer in Sauder Concert Hall
• became completely addicted to the office
• watched the movie everything is illuminated. finally.
• sent James off to Guatemala for about 10 days
• finished the book high fidelity
• heard peter and the wolf at the maple city chamber orchestra concert
• ate a delectable san marcos chicken burrito
• learned a new pancake making trick
• made pesto
• mopped the kitchen floor
• drank approximately 32 cups of tea (and began the tea total tally system)
  

...ok, so the list got a bit desperate. but this is my life, sometimes a bit desperate. but it has been a good month. i eagerly await the total transformation of 8th street to a cathedral of fall leaves, but also lament the colder weather that is rolling in. such is fall, such is life.