Colorado is cool.  Literally and figuratively.  It's weird though, I thought I would be much more excited to be home, but I actually kind of miss Atlanta.  Even if I only know like 5 people there, and 4 of them only at work and not that well.  I have no friends down there except for my "husband."  I don't do a whole lot outside of work.  And yet I miss it.  I don't know why.

Cashed my checks and I am about $900 richer.  I spent a bit of it on some nice glass and lunch for friends.  I'm havin good times.  This trip is absurdly short and rushed though.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.  My heart is very fond.  I started to write a blurb about how blessed I feel but it didn't make any sense so I'll just write a little note...  Mike, thanks for being your amazing self... I feel so lucky to be what I am to you, to know you so well and to aid you however I can.  I love everything about you, every bit of you.  I love being with you and I like where we're going.  I donno what is stirring up these strong feelings at THIS particular time, but just thank you for making me so happy.

Went to the High Museum of Art today, it was pretty cool. Another Richard Meyer building, and it looks just like the Getty. Beautiful. I loved the modern art collection... though it was a bit small. I'll have to go back because I didn't spend a WHOLE lot of time there.

Good ol' Nick's latest blog about heaven and such has got me thinking... If I DO believe in a heaven (not sure about hell really), and I'm NOT buying into what "they" say about who gets in and who doesn't, then who DO I believe gets in?
I guess I think that God has blessed us with a great gift, the gift of life. I don't think there are many greater gifts that can be given. I believe that those who cherish life, love living it, use it to its fullest, and for good and not evil, are the ones that would get into heaven. I really don't think God would deny someone Paradise for adhering to that.

Can I just say that I love the new "footprints" feature on Xanga? Nice to have a built in hitcounter, though it is a bit disconcerting to see who visits your site and when. For example, apparently I have a stalker in California who checks my blog at least 3 or 4 times a day. Also I can find out when my Grandma or Mike's friends are reading all this. Fun to find out. Haha.

Went downtown to watch fireworks last night and was met as I got out of the train station by torrential rains.  A bunch of people huddled in the shelter by the escalators down to the subway.  I like humanity at these times, when everyone is thinking the same thing.  You can smile at anyone standing there and they know what you're smiling to them about and they smile back and you laugh.  Didn't get to see any fireworks, but that was fun enough.

Can't wait to see Mike... then I can't wait to see my friends...

I've been finding a lot of great music lately.  Gnarls Barkley, new Pharrell, Arctic Monkeys (who Mike loved and took me to their concert), Corrinne Bailey Rae, new Nelly Furtado, Madvillain, new RHCP, and A-town hip hop are keeping me  snapping my fingers and doing my step.  I can do it all by myself!  Let me see YOU do it.  HEY!

P.S. I can give a band a "fair shot" until I see them wearing makeup and tuxedoes in their video.

Yup... I am alone in the ATL.  It's kinda weird.  Mike is gone to Cananada to see his grandma and so I am left here to my own devices.  Should be interesting... or probably the exact opposite.

The Devil Wears Prada > Superman Returns.   >>>>>>>.  I loved it SOOO much.  Is that gay..?

Work is good.  I informed my boss yesterday about some things about the restaurant that were frustrating me and she seemed to actually care.  Hopefully they can get it all back on track.  I love working at the W but I don't know about working at THE absolute worst W of them all.  This is not primarily MY opinion.

I'm coming home on the 10th very late in the night.  I leave for Texas on the 14th I think.  There are many days in between.  Make plans.

So, things are going really well down here... I just got my first
paychecks yesterday, which were sorely needed as I was flat broke...
too bad I can't cash them.  There are no Wells Fargo branches down
here.  I was supposed to be going home on the 2nd for all the
festivities but my grandpa is dying soon... I guess I'm saving my money
and time for Texas now.  I wish I could do both.  -_-

Things have been going great in Hotlanta.  One thing I've discovered is it's not called Hotlanta for nothing.  Another is that they like to landscape with pine needles as mulch here.  I've never seen that before.  It was kinda weird at first but I guess it's really pretty.  Everything is so pretty around here, so green.

I got not one, but TWO jobs.  One is at the W Atlanta Hotel, just a couple blocks down the street from here, and if you're not familiar with the W chain of hotels they're VERY nice.  I'm going to be a serving assistant in the restaurant... if I pass my drug test tomorrow.  Ironically, I've probably studied more for this test than any other in the past year save a few.  I finally take it tomorrow and I can stop freaking out!  I thought I was going to take it this morning but it turns out I have to go downtown to a lab, so I'm gonna take the train tomorrow morning before it gets too hot.  I hate humidity.

The other job is at Express in the mall, right next door to the W.  I don't know how I feel yet about this job... It doesn't really seem like my kind of thing.  I'm on the payroll for now, but I need to do a bit more orientation stuff.  I was supposed to go in for more this weeked but I'll be in Orlando.  There's another job I'm trying to get at EB Games, and if I get that one I'll probably drop the Express one like a bad habit.

I just listened to Midnight Train To Georgia, probably my favorite soul song of all time, IN GEORGIA.  It made me happy.  But yeah, I'm in Atlanta now.  And I would really like to ACTUALLY take a midnight train to Georgia one day.  It's on my lifetime goals list right after walk across the U.S.  Maybe I'll add walk across Europe.

I've applied to work at Borders, which is ultra-conveniently located right across the street from the apartment complex (Which, by the way, is sooo pretty.  There's the most beautiful pool and little common area... I really like it here).  Even if it wasn't the closest business, It'd still probably be my top choice.  Employee discount would be amazing at Borders.  They're "always hiring", and the application was online though... I donno, it doesn't sound promising.  Today I'll probably go apply to everywhere else.  I need to get a job soon or Mike will get mad.  Hehe.

I'm also starting to work on getting a tan... and finish reading the Da Vinci Code finally.  I just read the climax of the book last night and it was pretty damn good.  And the final codex was entirely too simple, and I felt so stupid for not figuring it out.  Stupid Da Vinci Code.

I just checked my grades... And I have to say I'm happy with the turnout... I got all B's and a C, which is a VAST improvement over last semester...  Oh I did accidentally fail my German Lab, but I can do grade forgiveness and retry next semester really easily so I'm not too upset about that..  oops.

1. David Blaine is Amazing.
   
2. When I clicked the number list button on xtools just now it put a 1. next to the paragraph pulldown menu.  Stupid xtools.
   
3. Never mind about summer jam.  It's sold out.  Losers.
   
4. Y'all should take World's Smallest Political Quiz because before I took it I didn't even know what I was and then it nailed me.
   
5. I'm lvl 59.  1 more... and then what?  It won't end!!  WoW eats your life.
   
6. Mike's moving in to his new place soon...
   
7. M:I3 was pretty damn good.
   
8. You didn't have to be such a bitch about it...

KS 107.5 Summer Jam / Snoop Dogg / Chris Brown / E-40 / NE-YO

Someone wanna go with me?  I need hip-hop friends -_-

So the second year is all over... Let me just tell you that yesterday was one of the most depressing days of my life.  I think under normal circumstances I would have been happy to leave for the summer and come back and see my friends in the fall, but I knew next year will be entirely different.  Jazz is not coming back...  I won't even see one of our close-knit group of the last semester again.  Well I might - I hope I will, because Phil was an awesome, awesome dude.  He wrote a Greeley song for us.  It is one of the most depressing but beautiful songs... I loved it so much and I need a recording of it promptly.  YOU HEAR THAT, PROMPTLY!  This song was stuck in my head yesterday as I packed and evacuated and left everyone.  It was dreary and cloudy for days (still is) and as Jazz left, and again when I left, it was raining.  Just one of the most depressing times.  I cried a little, I'm not gonna lie.  I'll miss this year.

Oh...mms://abcrad.wmod.llnwd.net/a49/external/0102cABAAHQAAAAcDle6yKhvE1c0LnEJnNwFajD8QD92LOnSD/harvey/pm/harveypm05052006.wma go to 5:25.  Just do it... it's everyone who knew the secret room!