Yo 8,

Glad to hear Taylor is doing well. Hope she can stick to the healthy plan.

Weather is weird. I hope you can survive. I always feel pretty ok, but I’m special like that. My computer says it’s only 89 degrees, but it feels hotter than that to me. Maybe I should shower or something before my boss’s speech thing tomorrow. I get to go to Battelle to see the speech. Tight security, they need my SSN and birth date and all the stuff, and I need to provide 2 photo ID’s at the door or some smeg, and then they give me a tag with a locator chip in it, and I can’t even open any doors, so… cool huh? I think it’s cool. Weather is a good conversation starter… leads right into top secret research facility security practice.

Although I am quite hot you should probably stop telling your friends I do pilates. I don’t even do that little move I made up that is part of pilates anymore. Did you hear about that guy who is debunking Super Size Me and has eaten nothing but McD’s for a year and is in good physical condition? He says the movie’s message should have been that lack of exercise kills you, no McD. I still think McD’s tastes bad though, so whatever.

I’ve been trying to enjoy my day off but my parents keep making tons of noise trying to fix the kitchen floor up. Mom’s trying to buy me a bike or something though, so that’s cool. If she does I think I’ll bring it to school next year. Then I could go into town more easily and stuff, and I can just store it inside that one part of the house where your friends stored all their used alcohol containers. Anyway, if I do you might consider bringing one of your own so you could tag along with me. 🙂

Been watching Farscape. It’s cool. I e-mailed Ze and asked him where I should go to grad school, but he hasn’t responded. Aaron is still missing, so he really must be dead. I wonder if Pat knows he’s not scooping up his family’s horse’s crap like he’s supposed to, cause he’s dead. I’ll try to remember to mention something about it next time I talk to him.

Anyway, I hope you’re having fun. Sorry you won’t get to hang out with Aaron when you come up, but maybe you can go to his funeral. You could say some nice words I’m sure, you didn’t know him as well as all of us here.

lusm musm and see ya soon.

P.S. No reference to my awesome Buddhism jokes in my last letter? What gives?

P.P.S. Of course I’m still keeping my lists.