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:
- 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)
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.”

- 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.
one crazy summer
Seriously.