hey everyone.

i've got the myers-briggs personality test on my brain these days since it's what i'm doing my senior thesis on. so if you already know what you are, you should tell me. or if you're bored, you should go here to take a similar test and let me know what you get. i'm definitely INFP like my buddy Amy over there with her lupin test.

speaking of Awesome people, my poor Kacey keeps getting beaten up at her job teaching 7th grade english. literally. yesterday she got pushed around for i think the third time this year.  i hate it when people i care about are having tough times and i can't fix it.

but you should seriously go take that test and let me know what you all get!

you know, i always think about updating this here thing in the back of my mind. after all, Jeri-Lynn helped me figure out the background for it last year. it's all pretty, i should use it.

i feel like i'm in the middle of some midlife crisis over here. but i'm being challenged, so i can't get away with the things i've gotten away with for so long. i honestly think i'm not actually that complex. it's just that i've been lying to myself, so i can't figure myself out.

well this reintroduction into xanga-land is not going so well. i didn't mean to start so openly.

let's start again. how have you all been? did you miss me?

wow, the summer kind of flew by.

and now i have a week until i'll be back up at school. there's a lot that i'm still trying to figure out about all of that (finances, mostly), and there's a lot that i'm still trying to figure out about myself. but i'm realizing i can't give myself a deadline to deal with some of the things i'm working through.

life is strange, and seems to come and go in cycles.

lesson learned: there is an Author in all of this, and sometimes things turn out quite poetically.

since Amy asked so nicely, i shall update my xanga.

so i'm here at work. i'm working for the same people who are nice enough to let me live with them this summer, at their accounting business. mostly i answer the phone and do odd jobs. it's actually pretty fun, because they're awesome.

they were my youth leaders in junior high, but it's been really cool keeping in touch with them and getting to know them on a level where we're all adults. i'm also helping them out with the youth group that they have now, and it's really intersting to be on the other side of that. i feel very grown up.

overall life is good. i'm learning a lot about life and love and adulthood.

in honor of the fact that my brother now has a xanga, i am writing my first entry in almost 2 months.

yes, i am alive.

and relatively well.