WOW.  It's been a loooooooooong time. 

Don't worry, I won't keep you.  My post is short.

Frankly, Xanga (Zanga?...Zanga.) I have a confession to make.  I havn't really been "just busy" for the last almost-six-months.  I've.. I... ...  I've been cheating on you.  [sigh.] 

No no.  Let me finish.  You might want to sit down. 

It's Facebook.  It's just so interactive and instant!  So much less effort.  So much more text-message gratification!  Walls, messages, pokes, pics, ... it's just so good.

You'll always be special to me Zanga--I mean Xanga.  I really mean that.  That's why I'm not going to quit you. 

Come now, Xanga.  You'll learn to like being second-best.

Really, it's my fault.  I'm just not emo enough for you.

Much love,

Nathan.

This week I have learned a couple of valuable things.  The following is one of them: It's OK to pee your pants if you are 5, but only if you have a spare change of nickers laying around.  I ran into this valuable bit of knowledge while taking my 5 year old to the bathroom.  Well, not MY 5 year old, but someone else's 5 year old.  I'm his Attendant Care Worker.  Think social worker kind of job.  That's me.  Anyway, I was surprised by his, we'll call him...Bob...by Bob's nonchalauntness concerning his soiled garmets.  I honestly didn't care a lot either, I mean, who hasn't takin' a whiz on themselves before.  Honestly.  Anyway, it turned out ok.  He had a spare.  Change of clothes that is.  Moral of the story: Urinal ot of trouble if urin urin without an extra pant or two.  And in my case, a place to dry out a pair of shoes. 

That said, TGIF.  F is my day off.  I guess you could say that I'm going to have an F-ing good time today.  Maybe I'll head up to Lawrence, or study some Spanish, or read something.  Or sleep.  Or maybe work out a little.  I really REALLY need to do that, but I'd rather take steroids.  If only they didn't make your testicles shrink and cause to to be irritable.  I kid.  The only steroids that I've ever taken are the kind legitimate doctors give out to people who need them to overcome respiratory infections and such.  Man, do those little white pills ever clear up the sinuses.  Yessir.

So, It's almost August, which means that school will be in session soon.  I'm ready for summer break to be over, mostly because I don't live near many of my friends, and I'm getting tired of the two jobs I currently have.  They aren't bad jobs, I just want to trade them in for new ones.  Or some social time.  Or some me time.  But I DO want to move out of the house sometime soon, so I better just keep slaving away in the salt mines until I have enough dough to rent an apartment/spend a summer in Spain/Mexico.  I'm currently split over the two possibilities.  Do I want to move out next year, or study abroad?  I suppose I have some time to think it over. 

Hello Leah, Enoch, Suzette, and Tom.  I hope you are all well. 

I'll see 3 of the 4 of you soon.  Sorry leah, you don't go to KU.  I won't see you quite as soon.  We should work on that.  Adios, all.

Nathan / Thor