may again

it's been forever again, and a ton has happened since my last post. most importantly, this semester came to a quick and forceful close, and my summer began with a tiny, tiny roar. rather than even attempt summing anything up, i am, as usual, just gonna put stuff in bullet points to keep all involved interested:

• my semester wrapped up at 9:30pm on april 30th, at which point i breathed a gigantic sigh of relief. our systems analysis group project about WXYC's music cataloging was my proudest accomplishment this semester (maybe even this year). it was a ton of work, but a semester and 56 single-spaced pages later, it's through. and damn good, if do say so.
• jen and i found time to buy me a bike from some folks in cary, somehow, during the last couple weeks of school. it's a beautiful royal-blue 20" men's 1985 trek 400-series, and damn if i am not jazzed to have a road bike again. my old-ass huffy got stolen off the porch of our pulaski house a couple years ago, and i've been riding mom's teal 1994 gt mountain bike since then. the trek is a nice lil' change and feels faster and easier to ride on these chapel hill/carrboro streets.
• i dropped down to athens for a few days that weekend of may, took in meghan's exit show, and saw tons and tons of beautiful familiar faces. there is a whole photo set up on flickr, of course.
• i started work at webslingerz in carrboro once i returned from ATH. the folks there are super-cool and the atmosphere is very supportive, so i'm looking forward to working on some good projects with them this summer and learning a ton. i'm also holding down the SILS lab for 30 hours/week this summer, learning a lot there and wearing the manager's cap, which basically means i make the schedule.
• i got to hang out with a bunch of lovely visitors from various cities who were coming in to visit my sally girls, ate some delicious barbecue, went down to the haw for river-times, and generally enjoyed the company of some fine new friends. i'm immensely sad that lnb will be leaving us for a while to hang in STL, but i know she'll be back soon--at which point, river-times and barbecue will be had in spades.
• the house on poplar is almost ready for us to move in--we're about halfway through painting the upstairs bedrooms. hopefully when all's said and done i won't have permanent kilz primer stains, which i'm currently claiming are artsy white tattoos, all over my hands and feet. i'm very excited about moving into this huge old house with sam, heather, and jen -- it will be an adventure and a welcome change to live in a house with close friends again. last weekend we went to durham and picked up some lovely green-gold velour couches with beautiful tassel-fringe for the living room. let the summer begin.

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