Tuesday, February 14, 2006
I might be in Philly this Saturday the 18th, so if anyone wants to hang out or grab a bite to eat with me, or can offer any suggestions of things I should check out while I'm up there, lemme know.

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Sunday, January 15, 2006
We got back from the family vacation yesterday, it was a fun week, and my brother wrote a thorough wrap up of it.

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Saturday, January 07, 2006
So I turned 24 yesterday, thanks to everybody that came over for our little party. And tomorrow I'm going on vacation for a week, so no posts while I'm away relaxing and clearing out the mental cobwebs of the past year. When I get back Narrowcast may or may not become some kind of mp3 blog.

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11:12 AM

Monday, October 24, 2005
Happy birthday to this blog.

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Saturday, October 22, 2005
Happy birthday to J.G.

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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
We finally got the cable hooked up at the new place yesterday, but the internet there still isn't working, so for the past week I've only caught brief glimpses at what's going on in the outside world, and I apologize for being a little self-involved. To counteract all the depressing shit out there, I might just turn this into a kitten blog. We brought them home on Saturday, and they're tiny and hyper and if I say anything else about them I'm going to get all cuddlestein mountain on you. I decided to name the boy Harrison, which was originally suggested by J.G.'s brother, who got the idea from this. But if anyone asks, I'll probably tell them I named him after either this guy, this guy, or this guy.

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10:37 AM

Friday, September 02, 2005
We're almost done moving and I can't wait for it to be over. We were planning to start on Saturday morning, but an hour before we were supposed to get the keys, we got a call from our new landlord that the previous tenants hadn't moved out yet and we'd have to wait 3 more days. So we had to hold off til Tuesday, and instead of having all weekend I had to move in the middle of the week all while trying to register for classes (oh yeah, remember a few months ago when I said I graduated? I got a letter from the university 2 weeks after I walked in the ceremony (!) saying I haven't met all the graduation requirements and need a couple more classes. Motherfuckers.) The new place is awesome, though. Once I clear the last of my shit out of the old place and get the internet/cable hooked up on Monday (I'm posting from work, btw) things should be great, but this week has been pretty hectic.

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11:59 AM

Friday, August 26, 2005
Important: people that know me in real life, e-mail me @ hotelopera@aol.com or leave a comment and I will send you my new phone # and home address. J.G. and I are moving into our new apt. in Upper Fells Point/Butcher's Hill, east Baltimore this weekend, and I (finally) got a cell phone. We probably won't be able to get our bed in until Sunday, but J.G. says she's spending the night on Saturday even if it means we have to sleep on the floor. I'm pretty thrilled about finally getting back into the city, we'll be just a few blocks from where my dad's lived for 15 years, so that's already home to me. And I'm real ready to get out of Cockeysville, the only thing cool about living there was having a phone number that started with 666.

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4:40 AM

Thursday, May 19, 2005
This morning I took the last final of my college career, and my graduation ceremony's on Sunday. My brother's flying in from Wisconsin tomorrow, and I've got more family driving up from Delaware over the weekend. Should be fun. I'm taking 3 whole days off work, which is practically a vacation since it's not unusual for me to go 2 or 3 weeks in a row without a day off (although some of those days are short shifts). Last weekend I went to J.G.'s graduation, and I think hers felt a bit more significant and emotional than mine probably will, mainly because she lived on campus the whole time and graduated with a lot of her friends. I've lived of campus for a few years now and I'm gonna keep working on-campus at my student job until the end of the summer, so the only change for me after this week will just be not having to go to class anymore, which always felt like the least significant part of my day anyway.

I'm getting ready for a lot of changes, though. I was in school for 5 years, and have been at the same job for 3 and a half years, and at another job for 2 years, and have been in my current apartment for 2 years. And all of that will have changed by probably the end of the summer. I welcome it, though, I need to get shaken out of my rut. I'm glad I finished school but I was never really that committed to it (which is why it took me 5 years even though I was a full-time student the whole time), and always kind of regarded it as a burden when I could have used that time in a lot of different ways, or at the very least could've worked more hours and had more money. So now I'll have more time to dedicate to other things. I can't wait to start pitching reviews and recording music again next week. I have no idea what I'm gonna do for a day job in the fall after I leave my 2 part-times, though. I guess now that I have an English degree I should try and find a desk job, which I've never done before, but which I'm sure is preferable to what I'm doing now. The job hunt scares the hell out of me, though.

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3:38 PM

Tuesday, May 10, 2005
On a personal note, happy anniversary to J.G. Our first official date was 3 years ago today. I won't get to see her until this weekend, though. But we're both graduating from college in the next 2 weeks, finally. She goes to school in PA, so for 8 months out of the year we basically have had a long distance relationship. So it's nice that she's going to be coming home for good this time, and we can move in together and all that good stuff, probably by the end of the summer. So far, so good.

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