lately i really like driving around and looking at people out enjoying life.  i like to drive down sixth street, with cute boys at the skate park just across the street from a beautiful park with people grilling and playing frisbee.  i like seeing people outside painting a new sign for their shop, or walking their dogs, or hanging out of their car windows at a stoplight to flirt.  signs of life.  giving me hope.  i will just watch for now.  i'm nearly as lazy this summer as i was last summer.   but now is a time for resting.  saving money.  saving energy.

lately i have been working a lot.  it's going well--most of the girls there have decided they like me, so i'm usually having fun and laughing.  there's one horrendous bitch that i would like to write about but i have no desire to skewer her so publicly.  i save that desire for mocking her in the kitchen on her days off.

clint's birthday cookout was nice.  drank a few beers and watched the boys eat and we talked about art and gardening and music et al.  such a nice, stimulating time, compared to my 17/18 year old party pals i've been hanging out with about once a week.  erin is great but hard to talk to, and the other one is...well....difficult.  high maintenance type.  and, let's face it, i don't really need to be getting that drunk, so i'm not sure why i go over there.  but it's fun to get out, and if i keep my distance a little things are usually pretty enjoyable.

not much else to talk about at the moment.

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tim: no, i haven't been keeping up with homestarrunner, unfortunately.  but fortunatelier, clint showed me the video for "experimental film" when i went to his birthday cookout.

jessica: i will definitely check out the new cake album.  you know what i was thinking about the other night?  that party we went to the night after graduation down at the milk cartons, and how we went to the playground, and earlier i had cut your hair, and we found liquor in the hallway, and we stayed in farr even though we weren't supposed to be there.