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the BBQ was good. tasty food and neat people to talk to. i really enjoyed being able to see brendon this weekend. i look forward to the next time he is up here.

i tend to write part of a post (maybe two or three sentences) and then interrupt my writing to read other's posts. normally, i will spent 10 to 20 minutes reading, and then come back to finish my contribution to the livejournal community. tonight i did the same thing. but there was a post there that made me think and i really want to point people to it, cause i have had similar feelings. todd's post has really reminded me of myself. for the longest time, i only had a couple really close friends. i have never been really good at reaching out to people to make friends. i tend to just try and keep and treasure my close friends and i don't worry about others. until recently. i'm not sure if it's a cause of livejournal or what, but i have met so many people in the past several months that it has actually made my life somewhat busy. it seems spending time with others is an addictive behavior. i think i need to reevaluate my time i spend with myself vs. the time i spend in groups of friends. it's something to think about anyways.
now if i could only somehow pull a girlfriend out of this group of new and interesting people i have met. heh.

on that note, i will go back to reporting my day happenings. after the bbq, i stopped by mark's to see what he was up to. homework (i actually expected it) was keeping him busy. i was looking for someone to go to a movie with me. the problem i had was no phone or way to contact others that may have been interested. i ended up just going to a movie alone. i suppose it was better that way anyways because no one should see the movie i ended up seeing. please, avoid the movie ''monkeybone. it's a waste of money and time.

once i got home after watching that movie, i wanted to balance out the bad movie with a good one. so i watched 'casablanca' because you can never go wrong with the classics. :)

i should clean out my mailbox. too much diplomacy related mail in there right now.

musicly, it's a downbeat night. i often enjoy listening to things that are a little easy to chill to while at my computer. i think it often shows up in my livejournal current music listings. almost always the music isn't hard and abrasive. i tend to listen to that sort of thing in my car more. anyways, it's k&d for my now.

sleep should really happen soon. i didn't deal with my email at all, though. just waste time reading web sites and following links. i'm a web junkie.

tomorrow after work, i need to look into getting ready for my trip. got to make sure everything is on target and working out fine still.

work was super slow today. glad, as always, that it's over. now i move on to the night. no plans and i'm kinda tired. will something come up before i fall asleep? only time will tell.