This is a long time coming.

Because I did not have time to call Time Warner Cable to get digital cable installed, I've missed out on my favorite show for the summer: The Next Food Network Star.

In the past weeks when I was stuck in cable-less oblivion, finalists have been eliminated, and Aaron McCargo emerged the winner. :D

Yay for Aaron. I had a feeling he was going to win.

The recap for the finale can be viewed here.

Visit the Food Network website for episodes.

I can't believe it's almost the start of the fall semester. Where had the summer gone? Where was the sunshine and the nice warm weather that summer was supposed to bring? All we had was rain and more rain.

In the last 9 days of the summer, I'm hoping to accomplish several things:
1. Catch up on my summer reading. Thanks to my heavy course work this summer, I had totally neglected reading for leisure. Now I'm on a fast-track to go through all the books I checked out from our library.

2. Watch the videos of the women's gymnastics and men's swimming in the Beijing Olympics. Like summer, the Olympics came and went with me hardly being aware of it. I kept mostly up to date with Yahoo! Sports. Without it, I would not even be aware of it ("Oh, are the Olympics going on in China this year? Is this even an Olympic year?").

3. Watch "Gossip Girl" from season 1, and find out what the hype about Blake Lively is about.

4. Go to New York City, eat all the pastries I can eat at Red Ribbon Bake Shop, and shop to my heart's content (more accurately, shop to my wallet's contents). :D