You Can't Make Mistakes.

Wow, a month gone and I haven’t written here. I hadn’t realized that it was that long. What have I been doing all this time? Oh yah, I was—along with many others—putting together a huge community-wide event, working for myself, attempting to do some planning for my thesis, write a couple of overdue papers, et cetera. I’ve been busy.

I meant to write last week, but after Kalamazoo Pride there was still a ton of work to be done. I also took a bit of a vacation with some friends in Colorado. It was nice to get away, but it is nice to be home now, and be able to get back to work.

I am, as always, still taking on more than I probably should. We are working with Kalamazoo Pride right now to appoint a board, begin the planning and fundraising for next year’s event, and really get this organization off the ground. We threw one hell of a successful event. It was amazing. People came from all over the area. The bands were great. The food, wine, and beer were all wonderful. We had about 800 people show up at best estimate. I kept getting weepy about whenever anyone would thank me at the event, thinking of how thankful I am for all of the people who have helped us over the course of this project. It really was incredible. I can’t wait to see what they do next year. I hope that it all goes well.

As of this afternoon, I am still tired. The vacation was wonderful. Jeff, Erich, and I went to Mesa Verde National Park. It was beautiful. The cave dwellings were really amazing. We went, by accident, on a three-mile hike up the side of a mesa looking for petroglyphs which we totally missed somehow. It was still a really good time. Durango was wonderful as well. It is a beautiful area, but I wouldn’t want to live there. Driving in the mountains is one of my least favorite things to do. The kind of stress that I feel when doing that is the kind that puts people in the ground at a young age. No thank you.

My most recent project to get back into is a new online media company. John Tobey and I decided that we have some skills that we could possibly make money off of, and we are going to try. John Media is what we are calling this venture. To start off, at least, I will do web and graphic design and Tobey will do graphic design and sound engineering. We will need a video guy eventually, but that should be no problem. It is nice to work for myself again. Things are less complicated when you always agree with your boss.

Last, but most important, things are looking up for the thesis project. I am getting more research and background reading done and preparing myself to start writing more draft chapters. I still have yet to actually propose the thing, but that is a formality which will be taken care of in no time. Then it is off to Egypt in the fall.

I still believe that boredom is the first step to depression for many people. I feel that I will have no trouble with depression this year.