These posters appeared all over our office between 4 and 6 PM today. At first I got really excited but then I realized that if this were to happen, and MTV were to revert back to what it once was, my entire department would probably be out of a job.

Last night I went to see The Hold Steady -- only my favorite band EVER right now -- in Prospect Park with Sloan. And now I'm pretty much never going to go to a concert again if it's not them, because it was seriously the best live show I've ever seen.

( ybor city is tres speedy but they throw such killer parties. )

Best. Concert. EVER. They're coming back to the city in September and I cannot wait.

One last thing: keep your calendars free on Saturday, August 25 from 1 to 7 PM EDT for the True Life Marathon on MTV -- the project I've been working on for the past month. It's the first time something I've worked on this closely has aired and I'm super proud of my contribution to it. So watch it!

This week was a mishmash of adrenaline,
blistering heat and no air conditioning,
unintentionally getting drunk on a Monday night,
sitting on the fire escape,
iced tea lemonade,
rain,
Harry Potter,
stress at work,
Bastille Day parties,
ice cream (in both cups and cones),
good beer,
AVOCADOS,
everything smelling like fabric softener,
butterflies (the internal kind),
more phone conversations than usual,
TV I will never admit to watching,
and coffee and catching up.

In other words, summer.

I'm getting sick of everything right about now.

Countdown: T minus 1.5 weeks (approximately) until I head home to NYC. And I cannot WAIT.

I'm gonna miss my mom like crazy though. My dad too, but my mom in particular. We've gotten so close this summer, closer than ever before. And I'm worried about her when she has to be all by herself once I've gone to school (when my dad is teaching at night or preoccupied with work). I want her to come visit me a lot, just take weekend holidays and fly up to New York and spend a couple of days with me. We would have so much fun on the town together. We have plans to go up to Jackson Heights once we get back into town and to get our hair mehendi-ed and just have a blast.

Possible trip to India in December, to visit my grandparents. I'm gonna do enough shopping to make up for the horrible food poisoning experience this year. :)

Why am I so terrified of business phone calls? That, and I always manage to sound idiotic on the line. I stutter, forget important details, talk really fast...ugh. I desperately want an internship fall semester, but do I want it badly enough for me to pick up a phone and call the company?

I don't have a crush right now. Weird, yeah? It feels like there's this void in my life, which makes me think about how sad it is that crushes are so important to me. Sometimes I just want an arranged marriage so I can be done with it. Hopefully things will change once I hit CU again...

( BUT! This TOTALLY MADE MY DAY!! Sloan's coming to visit me before heading off to Russia!!! )

Mwahahahahaha. I have him for 3 days. So freaking excited, I get to see my best friend again before he leaves me for 3 months...I thought I wasn't going to be able to :D

Here's to New York City. SOON.

I have just rediscovered tennis. It feels wonderful.

bleargh. packing packing and more packing. i never thought i'd be so sick of shopping and suitcases in my life.

but still, so excited for school! well, at least for orientation week. not so much for class, but what can you do. and jess is an OL after all!! that makes the week so much better. although i am kind of worried about getting the year started on the wrong foot, but my roommate is such a sweet and understanding girl. i'm sure we can figure out a way to compromise so that we both will be happy.

today's my last day in CLE, if all works out i'm having a bunch of friends stop by later today while i'm packing. not so much fun for them, but i really want to see them one more time before i go, especially the ones i haven't seen in forever. oh, and draegers with mom tonight. that will be awesome, i haven't been there all summer.

by the way, sorry about the freak-outishness of the past entries. shit happened with the blackout and i was worried beyond belief. but everything's fine now, thanks to reina's good advice and a lot of sleep. and the fact that it all worked out in the end. that always helps.

back from seattle. lots of nature-y stuff. mountain climbing and hikes and such. i talked to sloan the entire way through the hall of mosses at the hoh rainforest, which was awesome.

so it's three weeks of nothingness at home, more boredom, just like the first six weeks of the summer. but it's ok, because i'll be spending a lot of that time getting ready for school, and before you know it, i'll be back in new york again! ::sigh:: cannot go fast enough.

i think something's wrong with my wayward bus/distant plastic trees cd, it won't stop making these weird clicking noises...::very sad face::

can't get the damn gilbert and sullivan out of my head.

only 6 more weeks left of this damn evil summer, thank god.

sloan's in new york, work's more stressful than school ever was, my relationship with my parents is more erratic than ever, and all i want to do anymore is sleep.

oh, and i keep feeling bugs crawling all over me. not a good sign, now is it?

but on the plus side: only 2 more weeks of camp left! and julia and i are going to lollapalooza on the 20th! i'm so excited. plus the krishnans are staying here from sunday until maybe tuesday and then renting an apartment for about a month. so mek and pri will be here. it's going to be fucking awesome to see them...

i still have the shot of malibu in my bag. i'm saving it for tech week. god knows i'll need it.

i'm 19 now. have been for 2.5 days-ish. doesn't feel any different, but it wasn't like i expected it would.

haven't been doing much lately, just reading a lot of shakespeare and listening to a lot of music. stratford was ok, the plays were good for the most part and i did get some alcohol in me...i even managed to install aim on the hotel computer, talk to sloan for an hour, then uninstall the thing and it was like nothing had ever happened. ::mischeivous grin:: i hope the people at the inn didn't mind...

now for a week of not talking to my love, who is currently in florida. i'll survive, maybe barely, but he'll be back soon. and hopefully we can work out a way for him to visit me...i miss him so much and i need to see him before i go crazy.

i went to curves today. i'm so excited about the prospect of finally getting my body where it needs to be. it was a lot of fun, actually, i think going every day will be a wonderful way to alleviate my boredom.

::"i'm so busy writing my new shit that i can't remember the words to my old shit...da da da, white boy pain, that's it, that's it!"::