Week One (This is a long one, sorry guys)

Sorry I've been off the blog, but I've been busy. In addition to my internship, I interviewed for this job at a really nice coffee shop. It's not just a coffee shop, they do a bunch of stuff in the community for LGBT people and charity stuff and they're linked to Goodwill. Anyway, they have two rounds of interviews. I made it through the first one and I'll have the second one next week. Hopefully when I see all of you beautiful women next week I'll be employed. Fingers crossed.

My internship has been pretty great, even though I haven't worked very much yet. I worked Monday-Wednesday, but I only did part of Tuesday because I had that job interview. Also, I would normally work Thursday, but I changed it to Friday so I could take my brother to school yesterday.

So far, I've been mostly updating the events calendar and entering events into the main character (which seems like it will be a fair amount of my job), but I have written something all ready. Which was quite a shock. I wrote a little feature on a play that's going up in October and sent it off to my editor today. We'll see if I have the format all wrong (I hope not).

I'll also be keeping a blog up as often as I can for the magazine, so I'm super excited about that. I just need to think of ideas.

This internship seems like it's a good balance between kind of monotonous boring duties (i.e. that calendar) and actual formulating stories and writing. It's pretty great and I feel so lucky to have this job.

Yesterday, as I mentioned, we spent most of the day in Eau Claire. We packed up my brother's stuff and helped him move in. My parents were sad and I know I'll miss him, but goddamn was he ever softening the blow by being a moody little SHIT all day yesterday.

We dropped him off and then went shopping before we officially left him. During the whole shopping trip he was just not always being very communicative and doing a lot of shrugging and whining. Babhakjsdf! I was actually pretty glad to say goodbye to him.

Obviously, this is just a mood I'm in. I'll miss him next week. It was nice having my brother and sister home with me all summer. (Also he took the XBox which means I'll have to wait until Christmas to finish GTA IV, damnit!)

We're dropping my sister off on Sunday and I'm REALLY going to miss her. I haven't actually seen her much the past two weeks because she's been going on adventures will her friends and bf. They went on this super long canoeing trip for like three days and they got lost and she fell out of a tree and it sounds like it was a lot of fun.

But we're hanging out tonight. I don't know what to do when I'm an only child again. It'll be pretty hard.

Also while we were in Eau Claire we saw my Grandpa. He's not doing so well. I mean, he's doing fine considering his age and infirmity, but he's really deaf and he doesn't move around much. He seemed to know who we all were though, which was nice.

My uncle Paul (who lives in the same city and takes care of my Grandpa a lot) told us a pretty harrowing story about how he had to take my Grandpa to get X-rays and when they got there, they only had one other person to help move him. Then they were trying to get him to stand up on something and apparently my Grandpa was literally whimpering with fear. So that was a hard story to hear.

I kind of get the feeling that that visit to Eau Claire was one of the last times I'm ever going to see my Grandpa. My uncle described him as "fading." So that's a little hard too.

We went and saw Crazy, Stupid Love. Which I actually liked a lot and I don't usually like romantic comedies. It was very funny and every single actor was fantastic. I'm also a little in love with Emma Stone now.

I'm out of things to say and I'm tired and sleepy. (Yes, both tired and sleepy.) So I'ma stop writing in a really abrupt fashion. Love you guys. See you soon.