splash.

One of my favorite people in the world found my blog and called me a "slacker" for not updating frequently enough.

I guess he's probably right.

But, I suppose I can lean pretty heavily on the "four jobs + school + volunteer work" thing to justify myself...

My life has been shifting around a lot lately. I'm certain that this is due, in part, to my general antsiness. I am ready for this school year to be through, I'm ready to get away from the city for a few days...I'm just ready for a break.

In a few weeks, I'm going with Joe, Stacey, and Matt up to Cleveland for a couple of days. We're going to see two Indians games, the second of which is against the Pirates. This is exciting in and of itself, but, for the second game, we will also be meeting up with Ben, Janet, Mo, Kira, Russell, Karen, Matt E. and possibly Matt B. I haven't seen any of those people (excepting Ben) since Thanksgiving or before. It will be nice to spend some time with them, and to introduce them to a few of my Pittsburgh friends, and to have a greater Tribe contingent than Bucco contingent in my group!!!

I feel like I haven't seen my family in centuries, though it's really only been a month and a half. Mom and Dad will be here in 2 weeks for Race for the Cure, and, of course, I and my friends will be staying with them when we go to Cleveland...and then only a week and a half will pass before we leave for Alaska!!!

I have to say that I am incredibly happy right now. Ever since Easter, my life has been a whirlwind of excitement, productivity, hope, and...well...cheesiness. Maria says I'm "twitterpated," Debbie says I have "Disney eyes" and pretty much everyone who knows me says that I'm acting differently about him than any of the others.

I am pretty sure there's good reason for that.

:0)

There are still a lot of things on my mind surrounding that particular situation, which is why I hesitate to say anything more on it right now...but, all in all, it's fabulous and exciting and indescribable.

Also, I have recently gotten back into touch with a lot of people from high school and undergrad. I found out that my college roommate, Rachel, and her husband, Nathan, are expecting (and now, of course, I'm planning a visit to their neck of the woods this summer), and I also got back in touch with my dear friend, Drew, from Aurora. He and I were always so close, and just drifted off as our lives went different directions. As it turns out, he comes to Pittsburgh somewhat frequently, so we're planning to meet up and spend some time together. We agree it will be like old times, which basically means we'll laugh a lot, he'll try to make fun of me and fail, I'll try to come up with good comebacks and I'll fail, and we'll laugh some more. I'd been trying to track him down for a couple of years, so I was really excited to hear from him.

I think I'm fairly fortunate to have built the kind of friendships that I did in years past, such that we can find each other now and wipe out the huge chunk of time that seperated us. I guess that's how one can identify true friendship.

Anyway, I must be off and doing some work...I am scheduled at two jobs today, plus I have class, homework, and giant piles of laundry with which to deal.

Bye. :0)