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I hate laundry.
Any other household chore gives you a sense of accomplishment. You spend a couple hours scrubbing your bathroom, it's done and you get to leave it alone for the next month (or year if you're me). You vacuum your carpet and it stays clean until you need to do it again. But laundry, laundry...it's immediate. You're wearing clothes while you're doing the laundry (usually) and they'll need to be cleaned too. So by the following day, unless you wear all whites or all darks, you have at least 2 loads that need to be done again. It's ridiculous. Dishes are similar, but I hate dishes on a whole other level. I hate dish hands. Yuck.
My contract has been extended at Morgan Stanley (again) until the end of July. I have mixed emotions about this. One of the reasons I took the job in the first place was because I was certain it would be a temporary job. It still is I guess but it's less temporary. On the other hand, the pay is good and the people are tolerable so what better job to mark time until school starts again? All in all I'm ok with it.
I'm going to a student art fair in Denver this weekend. I'm really excited about it, I love going to art fairs and a student art fair should be somewhat affordable, hopefully. I really miss the Dogwood Festival back in Atlanta. Eric and I went every year and there was some really amazing art there. They have a lot of art fairs out here but they're usually on a much smaller scale and most of the art has a mountain theme (wonder why?), which is not really my style. The Cherry Creek Art Fair is huge though, so we go to that one and see some pretty awesome, and extremely pricey stuff.
That's all.

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I swear, if I ever update more than twice in a month I'll eat my hat. Any one of them, I have tons of hats.

I can't seem to get this blogging thing going on a regular basis. This time I have a bit of an excuse though, my laptop's power cord kinda fried on me so I was computerless for a couple of weeks and just couldn't bring myself to sit in Eric's dark office to do an update. But that only accounts for a couple of weeks, I know.

In the past couple months or so, I've started work temping at Morgan Stanley. It's an okay job, okay pay and pretty nice people, but mostly mindless and dull work. I'm thinking this job will be ending for me within the next week or two, but I have an interview next week for a School Age Care program with Boulder Valley School District that I'm holding out some hope for. I, apparently, suck at interviews so I'm a little worried about it. I think the job would be perfect and I would be perfect for it, but I have such a hard time getting that across to people. I say all the wrong things, but I don't know what the right things are to say so I don't say them. I'm missing the brown-nosing/tact/little-white-lie genes and that doesn't seem to carry over well. We'll see what happens, I'm just trying to stay positive about the fact that they called me for an interview at all. I also got my Substitute Teaching License (finally!) so, barring 3 recommendation letters, I can start that in the fall as well. Now the question just remains, what to do with the 2 months of summer left between jobs? I say relax, Eric doesn't agree.

I went out to LA again to see my best friends in the universe. It was really awesome, all of my closest friends gathered there from around the world (well, just CA, CO and Korea really) and it was awesome, we had a great time. I'm flying out to Chicago at the end of the month for my cousin Seth's graduation party. He got his Masters out in London and he's just now coming home and his mom is throwing him a party and offered to fly Heather and I out for it. Of course, we jumped at the chance. I love our Chicago family, it's always a good time going out to see them. It's crazy to me how John's family can be so awesome while he's such a shithead.

I went to see REM at Red Rocks last night. It was really cool. I've loved REM since I was a little kid and it's amazing to see them live and just how together and passionate they still are about their music. I also heard a lot of songs that I hadn't heard before that I actually really dug! Maybe I should check out their new album. Modest Mouse was the opener, another of my favorite bands. I don't really like their new album, except for one or two songs, and I'm pretty much neutral about Good News, but I love love love all their other albums. They only played about 10 songs since they were the opener, but about 5 of them were oldies, so that was pretty sweet. Much better than when I saw them in Atlanta and they only played one old song and everything else was from Good News. It was funny too, there were just a ton of old folks at the show and one of them, sitting next to us, was asking if we were there just for Modest Mouse. We explained that no, we bought the tix to see REM and Modest Mouse opening was just an amazing perk we found out later on. He said he asked because his 14 year old babysitter had never heard of REM. These kids today...

That's all for now, I'll post more when I think of more stuff to say.