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The people that live on one side of us moved out the last of their stuff and threw a whole bunch of crap away. And my brother and sister then went dumpster diving. Purely figuratively, that is, as it was all there at the curb. Mostly junk, but there was a jewelry box with some rather cool stuff in it, so that was cool. All costume jewelry, but I'm wearing this ring that kind of looks like a belt and is pretty neat looking.

Finally went to the gym again. I've gone twice in probably 2 months. Grr.

My sister bought a package of donut things and Danica Patrick was on them. And I was thinking. Yeah, she's pretty hot.

I also bought the new Bond album. It's a 'best of' type thing. I heard their (first, I think) CD probably 4 years ago, and I remembered that I liked it, so I bought the new one. (Really, my dad bought it.) But going through the album, it is rather one-sided. I've not listened to all of it, but the 4 tracks I have listened to seem to be a variation on the same theme. Kinda boring. And the music video things and clip off the live performance dvd move too fast, keep cutting to the dancers in the background, and one has several long shots of each member just posing (most without even holding their instrument). It's entertaining, but the violist in me wants them to just cut to the musicians and leave the shot there. To summarize, it's too flashy. In the Bond bio thing on their website, it says "as one of them has pointed out, if that’s [their photogenic quality] all that was needed for success, then supermodels would be able to sell records." To me, that seems to be mostly what this is. Supermodel records. I'm not knocking their ability to play, but I wish they would do just that.

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So I'm going to be out of town from June 8th to the 12th. I knew this, abstractly, but had rather forgotten about it when trying to plan things.

And now everything I've planned is overlapping and fucked up. So I'm quite pissed.

Because I'm tutoring and taking a finance class at the same time (I've got to fix that) starting the day I get back, leaving town on the day that I was planning to have my birthday party, I've got summer orchestra the day before that (that I didn't get signed up for like I was supposed to), Katie's birthday right in the middle of the days I'm gone, and now, since that week is out and any weeks after that Katie will be gone, I've got to get this birthday thing together in less than a week.

And I spent the whole day at my mom's school typing things for her, and didn't get any of this stuff figured out.

I have to start now. Here we go. First, email the lady that coordinates the tutoring thing. Tell her that I can't do it. I feel guilty about it, because she signed me up to work with the special needs kids and they don't have enough people that will do that. But she guilted me into it in the first place; I wasn't even planning to do it, and it's way out of my way and a long drive (and waste of gas) every day.

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My internet's on the fritz. I thought DSL was supposed to stop that from happening!