In 11 hours I am flying to Florida to be a drama teacher. I bought teacher clothes.

Future what?

In the meantime, musicals about sex are great.

The best actor in Russia gave me three hugs today and wrote "I'm proud of you. Be happy." in the book I asked him to sign.

I don't think I need to give more details, do I?

Happy happy!

I'm way to caught up in this assassins game. I'm not even good at it. But I'm thinking about it and worrying about it all the time. It's unhealthy. I need to get killed already and put out of my misery! This is sad sad sad.

I've barely written on here all summer, so here's an update. I'm at CTY at Mount Holyoke. I love my job! I teach 11 and 12 year olds about theatre all day long. But since I'm the TA and not an instructor, I don't actually have a whole lot of responsibility. Just fun! And it is fun! The kids are great, and both of my instructors are awesome. I worked with one instructor for the first session, and now I'm working with another one. They have completely different styles, but they're both really cool, and I've learned a lot about teaching. I really like being in the classroom, so teaching has made it onto my list of possible future careers (and its a bit more practical than some of my others: director, world traveler, astronaut).

Socially, it's been a little bit awkward. Because, as we all know, I am a little bit socially awkward. It was really hard for the first week or two, but its gotten a lot better. I've met a lot of cool people and had some really good times hanging out with them. I think it just takes me a long time to feel like I fit in somewhere. But I'm pretty happy now. I definitely spend too much money going to bars, but oh well.

There's a staff game of assassins happening right now. I made an accurate guess about when my mark would be coming home, and I waited for him on the porch, then made my kill! It was so satisfying. I don't know how long I'll be alive, but I'm constantly looking over my shoulder.

That's about it. I'm really glad I have this job, but I'm looking forward to seeing friends at home and back at Grinnell. Two weeks left! Time flies.

I got invited to a wedding on facebook, and I don't know if its a joke or not.

Oh internet.

Done! Coming home Monday. Richard may or may not graduate. Picaresque is so good.

-My mouth feels almost completely better. Though I still have gaping holes.
-Dar Williams played Grinnell on Thursday. The concert was beautiful, moving, exciting, etc., etc., and she is so cute! And then Richard and I played Chinese checkers in Bob's and had fun conversations with people.
-I've had almost no homework all weekend and the little I did have I did at Saint's Rest.
-I swam AND played badminton today.
-Dari Barn is open! I went twice. So good and so cheap.
-I have a humongous dark chocolate candy bar.
-I've gotten happy emails from most of the Cleveburg crowd.

So, despite a few traumatic incidents that have occurred recently, this weekend has been nice.

I feel like shit. I hate surgeries. I hate vicodin because it makes me sick. I hate the fact that I either have a really low pain tolerance or dry sockets, because either way its preventing me from getting anything done that doesn't involve lying on the couch feeling ill.

I'm home and pretty bored. The wisdom teeth are gone! Which means I spent one day bleeding all over the place, and another two days all drugged up and eating liquid foods. I learned how to make a really awesome curried sweet potato mango soup! Yay! I need to start annoying Bunny and make her give me recipes for the wonderful vegetarian food she cooks for me. I'm definitely living in an apartment next year (I got permission!) and I will seriously be cooking a lot! At least that's what I'm saying now. But I will! Really! I've applied for three summer jobs since I've been home. That makes five in all, including CTY. And there's definitely one, maybe two more I need to apply to. I better get something this summer. Grr. I haven't heard back from any of them yet. This song is so good. I heard it and was like, "what? A sexy Randy Newman song? What's going on?" I like it.