Why Do Men Have Nipples?

I'm done waiting for my grades. They're in, and I'm more than satisfied; I'm ecstatic. All of the hard work finally paid off, and now all I have left to do is to turn it all into an internship. I've got six or so companies to send my resume to, so I have a lot of work ahead of me. Justin just got in at Monitor, and he's not that much smarter than me, so I might stand a chance, but it makes me nervous.

I miss Provo! I miss the people in Provo and from Salt Lake too, and I can barely wait to get back. I'm enjoying Phoenix plenty. It gets a little old sometimes when I run out of things to keep me busy, but I'm actually doing pretty well. I've been running every day, and I've been doing my lunges and stretches, so I should be getting stronger for skiing in a week. I've also spent a lot of time pimping out my computer. I've got the Tiger operating system now, and I'm downloading widgets and extensions and fonts and desktop backgrounds and nifty little programs and anything else that I come across. Melissa keeps sending me links to new graphic design sites, so I'm staying entertained.

I had lunch today with Cheryl! We went to Manuel's, a funny little mexican restaurant, and our waiter was hilarious. He was straight out of the barrio with slicked back hair and a super-ghetto accent, and he was really relaxed and easy to deal with. Cheryl kept me entertained with stories from the dreaded Petsmart and all of our usual conversation topics. I realized that I live vicariously through her sometimes. She's got the best gauged ears. Hott.

Of Montreal has replaced Spoon as my band of the month. Wow. I finally bought the rest of Sunlandic Twins, and it's blowing my mind as we speak. Wow. If that weren't already enough, I've got all of the CD's that we gave each other for Christmas. I have more music than I can fully appreciate at the moment, so I'm just going to hide out with Sunlandic Twins until I'm sick of it, and then I'll venture out to appreciate the other new stuff.

AH! I can't forget to mention the Marcy reunion. I see this girl once every year or two, and it's always a treat. We went bowling last night. I suck at bowling, but I managed to win our last game, because everyone else there was sucking pretty badly too. I just managed to get fewer gutterballs. Anyway, we talked. It was good. She's in medical school in New York City, so we had plenty to talk about. Apparently, Anna just had a baby! Wow.

Life changes quickly, and I'm afraid, because I don't want anything to change. Not right now! I want to take a snapshot of the next month or so--which I am sure will be one of the best months of my life to date--and I want to pause everything for a year or two and just live and relive all of it. Maybe that's not quite accurate. I don't mind changes, but I want all of my relationships to be on fire. I don't want to be slowly drifting away from some people just because I need to drift closer to others. This January, I will have my cake and eat it too. I'll get to February later.