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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.