Recently I've just been staying in my room all day when I'm not at work. The main reason for that is the updating of this website, but the other reason is probably that I can't go swimming. Normally when it's really nice weather, my father and I go to the local quarry and swim across and back. But he hasn't been able to recently, and so my desire to go outside has decreased. I'm looking forward to going back to RISD this fall because then I'll be outside all the time since I have to walk everywhere.
Speaking of walking, I guess I have been outdoors to do a 15 minute walk with my dog everyday. The old man is 13 years old and blind. He's been losing his inhibitions recently as well, which makes him a bit snappier and a bit crazier as well.. It's always funny to walk him because he goes berserk when we first cross the street and literally runs in circles everywhere. But as he goes on he tends to stop and sniff the grass a lot, and gets tired pretty fast. These walks are also somewhat bittersweet at times because I'm not sure how much longer he'll be around for walking. And I know that after him we won't have another family pet so I try to enjoy having one now. We'll see how he does during these last weeks of summer. Hopefully he'll still be here when I come back for winter break.
This was very profound; I have the same thoughts whenever I spend time with my cat Mao TT-TT