2004-04-15 - 10:30 p.m.

Listening to: Placebo. Yes. I know, they are popular, but their music is also wonderful.

Speaking of music, who else is going to see the S-K's on the 25th?

Oh god, I am so fucking tired. I got to bed at like 4 am. Tonight's goal: 11 pm.

I have a seriously fucked up sleep schedule. On days off I will sleep till noon and the next day I will get up at 7 to go to work. Bankers are getting rich off the interest from my sleep-debt.

I start my new job on Monday, the 19th and I have 4/20 off. One more day training on the phones. Thankfully, the trainee I am working with is a great guy. Yes, he's a guy. You would not believe how nice it is to chat with another guy after more than two months with no other guys on the phones. Plus, he digs video games, so we have something to chat about.

I am pumped about my new job. Finally off the fucking phones with some responsibilities. It comes with a 20% raise too, which is nice, but still not what I am worth.

Tomorrow I see my Beantown crew for the first time in, well, like two months. The gigs keep getting booked on Thursdays, which is a bitch cause I can't justify going to class and skipping out to Cambridge and then jetting back home and going to work the next day. Thank god I can get out there tomorrow and I will have some cash to spread around. I miss them so fucking much.

My Beantown friends are college friends. It feels like they know the real me, even more than you poetry dudes. We've spent so much time together collectively; it is only natural that we have bonded the way we have.

I can't say enough good things about them.

Then on Saturday, I have talked my folks into taking me out to dinner in Chinatown. Should be a good time. I'd like to have li'l bro show up, but he shot me an email saying he will be in Boston this weekend. I know that's where Chinatown is, but I think he will incommunicado.

If possible, I'd like to get caught up on my letters this weekend. I doubt I will have the chance. I have a big paper I need to work on, all the other things I mentioned above and I need to work on Sunday.

Two of my cousins are having weddings on the same day, one in upstate New York and one in Vegas. I'd like to go to both, naturally, but obviously I cannot. Since I haven't seen Billy in ten years and since I'd probably be the only member of the clan going, I am leaning towards Vegas. I suppose it helps that I have seen my share of upstate NY, but I have never been to Vegas.

On the other hand, I'd really like to go to Umass, and if I do, I doubt I will have the green for Vegas.

I'd also like to score this weekend; did I mention which day I have off next week? ;)

Need… sleep…

-Jesse