So some time has gone by, and for those of you that A) Still check my livejournal and B) I haven't talked to in a while, here are some updates.

2010 has been, well it's been many things for me. I was working at Bull Feeney's Pub for a while and finally this past summer left that job and started working at Mexicali Blues in the Old Port. It's fun, albeit still retail, but I really like the people I work with there and minus some minor annoyances I really enjoy going to work. Currently I work the weekends, which is tricky because I'm in school all week long not leaving me much in the way of free time. Classes this year go from Monday-Wednesday evening and then I work Thursday-Sunday. School, as always, is a stressful time for me and I still don't feel like I'm putting my best academic foot forward but I'm so close to the end that to take a break right now would pretty much negate the 5 years I've spent at USM. The game plan currently is finish up this semester, take a winter class, spring semester, and possibly a summer class or two (maybe a 6 credit course in London with Reader's Theater). At the worst, I'll have to come back in the fall to take a few credits. Holy shit, I'm really almost done. 
As far as life goes, I'm still living with Moberg and currently Ben in a pretty sweet apartment in the West End of Portland. I have some pretty awesome roommates and life is pretty easy going around here. I'm also in a new relationship with a very lovely woman named Kyla. She's a singer song writer type person that I've actually known for a few years but never really hung out with. We 're-met' on my birthday and never actually went out on a date (my terrible sense of timing and hectic life interfered) and then started hanging out after a mutual friend's wedding in August. Shortly after that we started dating and we just passed the 3month mark. Things are really good and I'm happy (which is a strange sensation for me these days). I feel like things are starting to click into place after a lot of turmoil.

Well that's a quick update, Faithful Readers, and I'll try to have more updates more often. 
Sincerely,
-Token

Well, hmm...this sucks. Cathartic and horrible at the same time.

  hey there faithful readers, well it's been some time since my last update, ne?
( Down the rabbit hole )
Well that's all for now faithful readers. Til next time
-Token 

just one more 4 page paper and i'm done with my junior year.

thinking about changing my major to history next semester and getting out of here in 4 years instead of 5 and a half like i would in Theater.

hmm still not sure what i'm doing.


really looking forward to the summer.

Yay! Gay Marriage Bill passed in the Senate today!

22 today

so five weeks since my last update, funny it doesn't feel like its been that long.

well last time i posted, jess had just been up for our anniversary and was heading home.
i enjoyed the rest of my feb. break and just kind of hung out with some of my friends doing nothing. school started back up and so did rehearsals for the show i'm in that opens in april. its called The Distance From Here and its a dark one. i love this play, but goddamn it does get under your skin and make you remember shit best left forgotten. Rehearsals have been going well and the play is really coming together. We open april 10 and close on the 12th. i'll let y'all know when tickets are availible and for how much.

school is overall going well. i'm doing well in my classes and i just found out that they've changed the requirements for a theater major at usm so i might be able to get out in 4 years after all. i'll probably end up taking some summer classes and a couple of winter courses this year to make sure i'm caught up on my core requirements and what not. i also am entertaining the idea of going to the Reader's Theater workshop which is in toronto this year (sadly no London this time around). I've also been chatting with my buddy Moberg about going to Africa with him in August and doing voluneteer work in Kenya for a few weeks. The trip is relativly cheap and it would be good to do some traveling. It's always been my way of thinking that Africa is a bad place (not the people per se but the continent itself) and that everything there will kill you if given the chance. also they have some HUGE spiders there, but the more i think about it the more i feel like i should go. if i can do something over there that makes life a little easier for anyone, then why the hell shouldnt i. im gonna try and haggle to see if i can get some sort of credit over there if i keep a journal or something. who knows?

life is life. it goes on. still in a crisis about money, no job=no money (surprising isn't it?). bounced my rent check this month and then had to borrow 200 bucks from my mom to cover for it. now i'm worried that the rent check i just resent will bounce too so i'm scrambling to make sure it doesnt. i dont want to even think about where april's rent is going to come from. HOWEVER  i did just get an email back about a job that sounds pretty promising. i'm gunning for a baggage porter posistion at Concord Coach Lines, the bus station up the street from my house. it would only be weekends (which im cool with) but the payrate is 10/hour and it seems like pretty easy work. if i can pull in over a hundred a week i'll be set. also school is almost over so once i'm done with my show i'll have some more time open.  i really hope i get this job and can start making money soon.

in other life news, my mom is getting married. well not "married" married but her and her boyfriend want to be unoffically married. they also asked me to do it for them. as a pagan i can do a handtying ceremony which seems to be what they want. i'll probably make up a certificate and write a nice little speech. they're thinking sometime in april, probably closer to my birthday and we'll do a joint celebration.
which reminds me: my birthday is fast approacing (well maybe not fast but its coming up). 29 days left of being 21. its weird thinking that i've been 21 for almost a year now. it always seemed like it was an age that was so far away.

who wants to do something on my birthday? jess can't be up so the plan right now is probably sitting at home doing nothing.

been talking to liz (my godmother) and she wants me to get a car at some point soon. as much as i'd like a car i'm in no financial shape to own one. couldnt afford anything for it if i did have one. having a car would open up job opportunities for me as well.

just a little over a month and a half til school's done. summer plans are probably going to involve working my ass off and trying to find another place to move into once my lease is up.

thats all for now faithful readers.
-token