Pacific Nights

My life is wonderful… I spent the whole of Wednesday hanging out with Julie… We realized a couple of hours into our very interesting conversation that it was the first time we had ever hung out one on one… It was always a group of us, lovingly referred to as the “Diedrich’s gang”. It was so good to talk to her again. Nine hours later, I think that we can finally consider ourselves caught up. It was great.
I got a new job! I’m working for Chase bank now. Kraftsmen was nice, while it lasted, but I had a couple of serious issues with the place. I’m not going to waste valuable web-space talking about them, but suffice it to say that I feel like I”m moving up in the world. I want to knock on wood right now. It feels like things just can’t get any better, and then every day they miraculously do. Nevena is going to be back in town for the weekend, and I am as excited as a kid on Christmas Eve. For those of you who don’t know, my amazing friend has spent the past month doing an internship for AC Nielsen. a PAID Internship. Unbelievable.
Needless to say, I’ve been beside myself without her. Summers have always been sort of rough, but we’ve been through so much together this past year that we’re closer than ever, and that makes it so much harder to go so long without talking to her.
Anyway, she’s back in town for the weekend, and then is taking off again. TO EUROPE! Lucky thing! Nina is also on the way out. She takes off next Friday, and then Mike leaves too! Grrr… Bosnia, France, Mexico… I’m jealous of all of them. :)
My summer thus far has been wonderful, but not too eventful in the typical sense of the word. I’ve spent some time hanging out at the pool, some time practicing, writing, organizing some of my research from last semester (only the interesting stuff), and getting this job (I’m in a training program right now). I haven’t seen much of any of my highschool friends, although I did spend a couple of evenings hanging out with Rachel and Chris, and I saw Josh and Matt a few times. Mostly I’ve been on my own, or hanging out with Mike and ocassionally Nina.
Give me a shout if you guys find yourselves with some free time, my evenings should be clearing up pretty soon, and my afternoons are alomost always free.