Text messages help Jeff and I wax Family Guy.

It's been a little while, but I'd like to put up a catch up list on what I've been doing. Enjoy...

· I've been talking alot with Adam, a friend I made in Nashville at the end of the school year. I think I like him because we're so alike, and I think I don't because we're so alike. lol. My fear with this particular friendship is that our sarcastic bents will kill the whole thing, and while I'd love to make a new good friend I never know (with anyone) how much hickly sarcastic banter I can take. He's cool though, and in the family, and a singer (which I clearly like to surround myself with).

· I've been making a point to limit the contact I have with Jeff because I realized something at the end of the year: we had been spending way too much time together, and that was making our relationship crash and burn rather than flourish. I read a confirming article in OUT or Genre magazine that said that even though we might want to see a person constantly, limiting the time will make the parties work for the relationship and thusly make the relationship work (ok the concept was from the magazine but the paraphrase I just typed was mine...I list that because I really like the wording lol). Anyways, I think it's working. Jeff and I both are having to establish lives apart from one another, which makes me feel like he's more of a good friend than an extension of myself. Personally, I tend to treat people better when I feel that way. Although, it just makes me want to hang out with people more...what a viscious cycle.

· I bought a digital camera and train tickets for my two month voyage and plan to keep an online journal for anyone who's interesting in keeping up with my going's on. For those who don't know, I'll be in Europe for two months, touring and doing some singing with a very good teacher. This is all just before I head back to school with my new voice teacher, and new senior year, busier than ever. I'm excited sometimes, but mostly very nervous to leave, and a little emotional (in the sad way) that I'll be leaving. But I have to be strong around my mom and Adam and Jeff and my church, who are all not really looking forward to two months out of the normal schedule. By the time I can buy them all cars because of the connections I established, I won't mind the two months at all lol.

· I turned 21 last Tuesday and have been enjoying the notion of legal drinking (mostly in my head) quite a bit. Durryle invited me out last week and we cruised a club called the Hippo after stopping to see Baltimore's King of Pride 2006 (who is a personal friend, and a minister). I was praying to get hit on lol...I occasionally need the reassurance that I'm still a handsome cat. About 10 minutes before close and having met SEVERAL lesbinums, a guy approaches me after seeing me look at my watch. "Do you have an appointment?" he says. LOL...I don't think I've ever been served a line before then. Well anyway, I guess I owed him a dance, and he was handsome (and a master's candidate at duke), so we danced until close. The black gay crowd's alot different (and mostly alot harsher) than the Nashville techno 'mo scene lol.

· My newborn sister is two months old and doing very well. She's the cutest. I've begun to speak to her mostly in spanish. Her gummy smile lights up my day.

If there's anything I left out, lemme know. Otherwise, I'll check ya later.

b e c o m i n g m a s t e r o f m y d o m a i n

I'm having trouble deciding what to do after my graduation (how exciting) from school. On the one hand, I'm preparing for voice auditions and conducting auditions, but I have a really good job here that pays well. Provided I don't get tired of it, I might want to stick around and do a Master's in Divinity or Administration to keep my education going.

I don't know who's going to accept me, and it's pretty nerve- consuming to have these things on my mind.

But soon enough comes two months in Europe, my 21st birthday, and all the singing I can stand lol. Music's a career that can't be beat...that is all.