I am at my dad's office on an extremely fuzzy monitor and clacky keyboard. I used to use this monitor - it still has my stickers on it. I don't know how my eyes survived this horrid monitor before I got a flat panel. I am grateful.
I gotta change the resolution or something. I'm going blind.

My addiction to the internet, blogger, downloading movies, my computer in general, is completely gone.

It's heart-wrenching what a change has come over me -
I remember the days when I sat in front my beautiful monitor and gleefully hacked away at my wonderful keyboard; each click of the 'Send and Receive' button held me in thrall, each update of The Blog (mine or others') filled me with joy, and each completion of a download warmed my soul. Hours passed before I would pry myself away to eat, sleep, or release any bodily fluids.

It is no longer thus.

I despondently check my e-mail, reluctantly wring out a blogger post, and wearily surf online and chat on AIM.
At first I thought it a blessing.
Without the chains of internet addiction to bind me, I was free. Free to DO things. Free to talk to people in person, free to go out, exercise, shop, explore, learn, heck - FREE TO LEAVE MY ROOM~!
Then I realized what an empty existence that would be and promptly spent too much time typing this melodramatic blog.
Slowly, perhaps, this dependence on internet and computers will enslave me once again and shackle me in its sweet bondage.
Every fiber of my being longs to be imprisoned again!

Whoa. This is weird. Blogger changed it's format.
Anyways, Leakey was fun. It was nice to relax - I slept a lot. Went tubing. Ate. Read. Played games. Got tan.
Blah. I'm getting lazy.
It's like the slow pace of summer makes me languid and too lazy to blog as well.
I need a hair cut.
I start working at my dad's office Monday. I did a little last summer too. I don't think I remember anything.
I feel disconnected from everyone; I've been away so long. What's going on?
I will be going up to Austin July 6th - ? to help with ABSA recruiting.
Anyone else want to go?
More importantly; while I'm at Austin, anyone want to HoOk mE uP aNd LeT mE cRaSh At tHeIr cRiB? LeT me knoW, AiGhT??
..
I duno. I'm bored.
Seriously though, I need a place to stay... I'd be much obliged aND am willing to do.. favors.. to earn my keep.

I'm back from Europe!
Surprisingly, I'm not jet-lagged. Come to think of it.. I rarely get jet-lagged.
Anyways, it was so humid when I got off the airplane in Houston I wanted to kill myself. I think I miss the weather the most. I enjoyed 60 degree weather for the past two weeks.
We visited:
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nynashamn/Stockholm, Sweden
Helsinki, Finland
St. Petersburg, Russia
Tallinn, Estonia
Gdynia/Gdansk, Poland
Oslo, Norway
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam was really interesting. I have many observations to share. I'll write about it later.
I have to leave today for Leakey. (pronounced Lake-y) It's a 5 hour drive. A cabin with a river or something. I'm going tubing. It'll be weird; going from 60 degree weather to 98.
I'll be back Saturday.

heh. I got many 'have fun in Europe" messages on IM. It was funny.. one right after the other. There were a few onconventional ones, like "bring me weed from amsterdam" and "dont' get any prostitutes"
I go now.
I hope everyone has a good summer.
*kiss kiss*
(European style)

I leave for Europe tomorrow.
A few days in Copenhagen, then we go on our Russian/Scandinavian/Baltic cruise. We've had one of these family summer vacation trips every year for as long as I can remember. I don't even feel like I'm going to leave tomorrow. I'd hate to think that everything is so routine now that I can just pack nonchalantly and not get excited about going. That's kinda sad.
It used to be that I'd pack a week ahead of time, making lists of what to bring, imagining what the trip will be like, but as the years go by it takes longer and longer for it to hit me. I pack later and later - and the past few years I've been packing the night before.
::shrug::
Maybe I'll start getting excited when I'm on the plane tomorrow.
The last time we went to Europe I was too young to really remember anything. 3rd grade. I wish we could go back to those places again; Rome, Paris, London, Switzerland - I'd probably appreciate it a lot more.
I hate sounding like an ungrateful brat. I'm thankful for my parents for giving me the opportunity to travel like this. Poor daddy, who will be working while my mom, sister, and I will be vacationing (although we diD ask him to go with us)
Tomorrow I will be leaving for the airport at 12:30 pm, be taking off at 3:40 pm, getting to Amsterdam at 8:00am (their time), and waiting in the airport for SEVEN hours until the transfer flight to Copenhagen.
Yeah. It's gonna be a long day. I will be so jet lagged.
I will be back the 22nd.
Arreverderci.