Hum, life, it's a funny thing. When I lived in Louisiana all I wanted to do was get out, travel and meet new people. It was only as I was leaving that I noticed how much I had grown to care for the people that I was leaving behind. I miss them and the CRAZY moments that constantly seemed to happen when we got together. It's hard to keep in touch over the phone especially when I am not too terribly fond of phone conversations. Life is definitely interesting. I had my worries about the type of people that lived in Oregon and they now seem to be justified. A large majority of them are shall we say "off." Just the other day at work, the owner of the store asked some punk kids to not stand directly outside the store for fire hazard reasons and they started to exchange words. As a result the kids decided to start a sit-in protest against our store. Lol, it was ridicules. After about 3 different tries of trying to persuade the kids to move we eventually had to call the cops on them. I am guessing that that did the trick b/c when I got back from lunch they were gone. You would think that that would be enough for one day but later on another girl decided to, as far as I could tell, prevent people from passing on the sidewalk in front of our store until they would give her a high five. We of course had to ask her to leave and thank goodness she did with only one asking. I miss my friends and having someone to do things with. Here you must be 21 to get into almost anything so going to clubs or bars to meet people is out. I also just love to dance and I apparently won't be able to do that until I come home for Christmas. I am planning on taking salsa/ballroom dancing lessons, which I am extremely excited about, but I am still trying to decide on the best(cheapest) place to go. I have been talking to this guy who I had a conversation with at work one day. He seems to be really nice and interesting but unfortunately I get the feeling that he wants to be more than friends and I just do not want a boyfriend right now. Lol, my life is stressful enough. I want to establish myself and form my own group of friends out here before I get a boyfriend. We're supposed to be going to a movie together sometime this week and guess I will have to make it obvious then as to not lead him on. Today I went to a river with one of my coworkers and her siblings. It was fun and I was proud of myself b/c even though I am extremely scared of heights I still jumped off some pretty high rocks :-). Yesterday I handled some pretty stressful errands, one including trying to get enrolled into the college out here. The enrollment cannot be finished until SLU and my high school send my transcripts. After the stressful necessities were over, Lyndsey, my roommate and best friend, and I went to a nearby grave yard and took some pictures for a CD cover that she is doing for a friends band. I was the model and had to climb trees in my new, extremely rip able, dry clean only skirt. It was really fun and my skirt didn't get torn up too bad. At one point she was like "you wouldn't be willing to take you shirt off would you?" To her very amusing suprise I said that I wouldn't and proceded to do so. It was hilarious b/c a few of the cars on the road decided to slow down in order to see what we were doing. Most of the time I enjoy having Lyndsey here but it does get extremely aggravating at times. She finally got a job! We just have very different ways of doing things and that is all I think is needed to be said on that subject. I am trying to find a new job and a new apartment and neither are looking too bright. My stress level is extremely high right now but I am still hopeful. So much more has been done and thought but right now I feel that enough has been written.