Back to life, back to reality

So the summer is almost over...only one more week till classes start.  I'm mixed about it...this summer has been rough in a lot of ways, which has led to me retreating into my own little world, which is exactly the wrong thing to do.   On the other hand, I don't have much choice about getting out more and interacting more with people, because the semester's starting.  There's so much I didn't get done this summer that I wanted to, and now I have to cram it in this fall along with everything else...

On a happier note, I was walking home tonight and saw the bright red-orange star in the southern sky that's Antares, which meant I could trace a line to the west until I saw the vertical row of three stars that marks the head of Scorpius, take a north turn from the topmost of those three, and see a little star named Zubeneschamali.  :)

Anyway, in the interest of being more present, I jumped on board with raeschae 's icon meme:

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