oooh duckies i hope everyone had an enjoyable 4th! i hope you all did the american thing and grilled lots of meat and drank lots of beer. me? i sat on vanessa's sofa and got leh to the face while watching the Boston Pops' fireworks SPECTACULARRR (the all-caps just felt so necessary). i've never been a big 4th of july reveler to begin with, so i felt like i commemorated the birth of our nation in a way true to myself. meh. what else? ah yes, the tour-guiding gig which i love to hate. twice in a row now i've had buses of HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BANDS FROM MINNESOTA. no way, you say. yes way, i counter. its moments like that when i have to ask myself if it gets any geekier. i can say with some degree of certainty that it, in fact, does not. watching them though, aside from the brutal combination of "high-school band kid" & native midwesterners, it makes me realize that you could NEVER pay me enough to go back to high school, although, i must confess (and not without a certain degree of smugness) that i am that girl who is sosososososo excited to go back and laugh at everyone at her 5th year reunion.