  And while I'm at it, I think I'll talk a little about my week, which has been really good. I've got to re-visit some old friendships, work on current ones, and even make some new friends. I hung out with Rachel Douglas on Thursday, and even though I had to drive an extra hour (bringing the total up to 2 and a half hours. Yeow) because of a combination of misleading signs, confusing directions, and my total lack of direction and second-guessing, it was worth it. Rachel is the type of person who inspires me, both in artistic directions and just life in general. She's really brave and set in what she wants to do, and she just goes out and does it, with little excuse.
And she encourages me to do the same. Which is really cool. The other cool thing is that Rachel is married now. And while I may not have viewed that as a good thing in a past life, I am really happy for it now. I have such a high respect for the institution of marriage (perhaps because it seems a lot of relationships are so tenous, and that is a solid foundation (or at least it is it my eyes, perhaps not the eyes of the world)) that it enables me to not even worry about a lot of crap.
As far as I'm concerned, that married woman is a guy. Still a woman in the sense of how I should treat them, and what I should guard against, but I can at least be free from that nagging sense of promise that hits me every time I meet a new woman. That's very refreshing. That enables me to have a lot of emotional honesty that is best received by women, and who I find to have the best insights. Yeah Ladies! I finally got to hang out with my friend Meg's husband, who I have heard lots of good things about, and enjoyed in the brief flickers of interaction that we have had. Myself and Meg and Tim (that's the husband) and Betsy (Tim's sister) and her boyfriend all went to go see Anne E. Dechant, who is this sort of folk-indie-rock hippie singer.
I'd never heard of her before, and I liked her a lot, more for her message than her music. She was very feminist, which I consider myself, although I like to think of it more as a Equalitist. Or something. You know, chicks and broads should be treated the same as men. Anyways, I liked Tim a lot. He's definitely educated in pop culture, but in that geek-charm kind of way. Yeah geek-charm! And perhaps most of all, he just seems like a nice guy. Although I could get to know him and find out that he eats babies (a definite prerequisite for evil), right now he just seems like a cool, nice guy.
Although I suspect that he has a deep well of sarcasm that he could bring to play (Lord knows that Meg does), I think that it is probably the constructive kind of sarcasm. Oh, man. Back to work, I still have stuff to do. But thank you for listening, whoever you are. I hope that you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Sam Demos Football Rules! 
