Orientation training started today, so summer is officially over. Here’s what happened this summer:
May

• Finals end.
• Amber graduates.
• Sweaty dogs ugh. [video]
• Heat, 32-mile bike trips, dating.
• We go to the lake, it rains, Harley’s pissed.

• Obesity, and the doughnut flop at Lake of the Isles.
• Saw Sex and the City II, and it was fabulous.
• These are the type of guys I’m dating…sigh.
• Friends, faux-friends, work, and good times.

June

• Meeting the social disaster, eek!
• The (mini) diva.
• Sticky day at the lake, the dogs aren’t having it.
• There’s a brothel above my favorite Dunn Brothers Cafe!
• Welfare night with Roby. Oh, my goodness, is that a midget with a zombie?

• The dogs ruin my swagger.
• Tyler and DJ Shiek at Lush.
• Harley kills my laptop, Roby and I go to a latin club… at the mall.
• Bought Ableton, it arrives, and now I just have to learn it.  Also got the APC40!
• More bad customer service at Sprint.
• Jill and I agree that law school is probably a waste of money.
• Wait, I may not kill these dogs after all…
• Fabulousness at the Eagle!
• My mother does not have a mullet.
• Ghettotastic Pizza luce with Matt, epic nights, work, etc.

• My Physical Evidence class is…uh…interesting.
• Yamile is NOT having it, storms out of club.
• Jill has swagger.
• The blurry drag queens at Classafrazz.
• Gertrude ruins my carpets. And is waaay too tired.
• At Mall of America…so…many…kids….
• Wait, where are your pants?
• My neighbors can’t drive. Ugh.
• Yes, that’s me sporting a rice sock.
• Waaaaay awkward time at the Eagle.
• Twin Cities Gay Pride week! Pictures here, here, and here.

July

• Alesus appears…and so does a cat, at the bar…
• I don’t drink too much diet coke.
• Sigh, more on dating life, & etc.
• The Rottweiler is way too goofy. (and destructive!)
• Physical Evidence Class: a field trip, presentations and booze, the final paper.
• Harley’s not feeling the heat, at all. (But he can get into the bones…)
• Welfare night…sigh.
• Moving: getting permits and feeling homeless, drilling, clownery, shitkram, spiders, and the Molly Maids…
• I get arrested!
• Neighbors: the bike, the laundry, ads.
• How did I live without a carpet steamer?!
• Alesus and Gertrude
• Company picnic!
• Totally evil, and spewing shit all over my apartment…

• Became caretaker, schedule takes a nose dive.
• You can run and tell that.
• Target gets boycotted, I think it’s silly.
• Margie wants you to know about her hot flashes.

August

• At the vet…again.
• Got lost biking to work.. woops.
• Lake Calhoun: loving Calhoun, mirror action, and more.
• Alesus: and Gertrude, my poor flipflop, with Harley!
• Harley’s being shady, and waiting patiently, sleepy, and not having the heat.
• Gertrude surprises the hamburgular!
• Lake Harriet at night:

• Keke ain’t coming.
• Buy a new bike, get caught in the dark.
• Jill on law students.
• Cheeta-mini.
• The Head Shop.
• You need escape money in LA:

H.P.: “What you do is get $2,000 in cash in 50′s and 20’s for escape money. In L.A. you always need escape money.”

• Freshness fail.
• It’s all about the…garden moose?
• Neighborhood: MIA at night, fug houses, used car salesman, bootleg car.
• The trash hurler.
• The summer is ending, but Dra Matica is here! (with friends)

• Gertrude! Calm yourself…
• My coworkers make me fat.
• Student aid entrance exams, twice.
• Seriously, I don’t have a diet coke problem.
• The Tweetup and the shooting.