three days after my return, we'll call the weekend worth it. i've begun peeling due to the overexposure to the sun (three hours + no sunscreen = red rud), which is oddly joyful to me...

i was surprisingly not so tired on wednesday. [after the final game of the trip on tuesday, i left grand rapids at 920 CDT, made my first wrong turn at 921 CDT, immediately knew what i had done and turned around, chatted up nemo, a fellow radio guy, gurs, mom, dad, and the boy over the next four hours, rolled down the windows and turned up the mountain goats when it was time for the boy to go, arrived in the quad at 230 CDT, and i was at work by 10 am. of course, i didn't go to sleep immediately - i had to catch up on sports illustrated and unpack a bit and things of that nature - so i was asleep by 4 or so.]

wednesday's game was fantastic - a comeback from a 6-1 deficit and a three-run homer to end the game - so perhaps that had something to do with it. in other news, chemistry between myself and my sometime-partner is getting better, and it was actually fringe difficult for me to do the wednesday game alone. but then i got back into it..."X, with an open stance, bats out of a deep crouch, his front foot towards third base. he's swinging a black bat with a light-colored handle while wearing white batting gloves with blue straps." ahhh, time-filling.

i'm in an odd situation here, and i'm not sure how it's happened. we've got 11 or 12 or 10 or a large number of interns this summer [in the past, it's been five or six.] as a baseline, let me tell you that i've forged a somewhat-lasting friendship with sort-of one previous intern [of 18]. the odd thing is this: i'm generally well-liked among this group, to the point that they're asking me to go out with them regularly. the problem is this: too much drinky.

the other problem is this: i like them all, because i generally like people, but they don't all like each other. therefore, i feel bad when group [a] bags on stuttering intern [x]. because, after all, the stuttering intern sort of rules.

the other problem is that one of the interns lives down the hall. i like him a lot, but it's too college for me. i'm supposed to go over and drink or play video games, and sometimes i just want to watch conan in my underwear.

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i've got an off day on monday - my first in at least a month - i plan on cleaning and sleeping and enjoying humid 88-degree temperatures.

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i'm going to work for the i-cubs a week from tuesday, then wednesday. they're covering my hotel [trade], which is just flat badass. i've got a former coworker who works in des moines, so i'll try to get in touch with him. i've got a former coworker who runs a restaurant there, so i'll try to convince coworker [a] and his wife that we should go to coworker [b]'s restaurant.

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i like the white stripes record, particularly "my doorbell," which is infectious and way-infectious. i also like "take, take, take," which is about the only other song title i can remember. i just got xtc's skylarking - a surprise ebay winner with a $1.76 purchase price plus $1.50 shipping...i think they're fantastic.