so it's 6:11 am and I'm still up - rolling my brain flat over how to go about making summer plans.

if you've read killoggs for the last couple of years, you'd know that I make a post like this one just about every year around this time...

1998-2000
2001
2002
2003

yeah...

So I have to tell work tomorrow whether or not I'm going back to camp. I also have to tell camp whether or not I'm going back to camp. I've put it off as long as I can. The offer to teach is still there, but I'd be teaching solo which I don't like, and I can't stay for more than 2 weeks of it (with possibly one week of vacation afterwards).

And for once, I'm thinking I'm not going to go back this summer. It feels weird, but I don't think I'm up for it. This year has been so fucked up in general so far that I think I might as well go with it and just do what doesn't seem natural.

But I still want to have a silly summer like I've always had.

It would be totally unlike me to not.

So I'm going to plan to take off from July 22 until August 1st. I want to figure out how to come up with enough money to go to Comicon weekend and then to Mexico for a week or so. Loren got me jealous with his Mexico talk. Can anyone guesstimate how much that would cost? I really don't know a damn thing about Mexico. Would anyone be up for a retarded vacation with me?

Here's some other stuff:

Saturday, June 12 - Wolfpack Beach Party
Sunday, June 13 - Bobby Conn in Baltimore with Trans Am
June 18th - Lederhosen Lucil in NY
June 26 & 27 - MOCCA in NY
July 4th - Big Dirt Farm Party with a Moon Bounce, BBQ, and some bands
July 22- Aug 1 - vacation hopefully
Oct 1st - Party at the Dirt Farm (my birthday), SPX weekend, Crafty Bastards Art Fair weekend

Woah! Now that I look at all of this in calendar form, I could just do ONE week of camp and still get to do all of that other stuff... (7/12-7-18 in Berkeley). hmmm. I wonder if they'd let me do just one week of camp. I'd miss 2-3 issues of the CityPaper like I had originally planned also. hmmmm. hmmmmm. I really hate having to do this.

So, let me think about this. If they let me do just one week of camp, I could leave here on July 10th, teach until the 18th, go to Mexico until the 23rd, come back up to Comicon for the weekend, and then come home on the 26th (and only miss two City Paper weeks). Wow. That kinda rules. It would pretty much all pay for itself too.

Yeah. I think that's what I'm gonna do. I need to call Jake tomorrow. Isn't it amazing how easily I change my mind?

... And I've just realized that I use killoggs more than anything else, to sort things out in my head (but in text form for everyone to read and comment on).

I have a friend who is considering moving from N.O. to DC but she has a few concerns:

1) That she will not find a job- She would like to work in a museum environment.
2) That she won't find a roomate.
3) That she won't find a bar like the Circle Bar.

Can anyone help ease her concerns?
Also, what are the three best things about living in DC and the three worst things about living in DC?
Your help is appreciated.

Last night I noticed static when I started watching the ROTK DVD I rented. I determined that it wasn't my television it was the DVD. I determined that it wasn't that particular DVD, it was the player. I changed power outlets, that made no difference. I messed with the cables, nothing. The static was actually more like interference. They were horizontal bands flashing and fluctuating. They weren't random; they seemed to have a rhythm, but not a consistent one. I turned off the sound and listened near the wall connected to my neighbor's house, because it seemed to coincide with sound, like their TV or, they have a karaoke machine, I wondered if it was that. But their sounds seemed unrelated to my static. I was really annoyed and figured this cheap $90 dvd player was breaking down and I'd have to get a new one. I watched the whole movie and once in a while I wouldn't notice but most of the time the interference distracted me. I get so frustrated with technology when it goes bad. When the movie was over I went to bed, but right before I got in bed I heard a sound. It was like someone outside my window had a transistor radio on. I went to the living room and I could hear the faint sound of a radio coming from inside my living room. It was coming out of my TV; a Christian sermon of some kind broadcasting out of my TV that was turned off! I've never heard this before. I decided to disconnect the DVD player--which was also turned off--from the TV and the sound stopped. For some reason my DVD player is picking up radio waves. I think that is what is causing the visual interference as well. So I'm glad the player isn't defective, but now I'm screwed! How do I prevent radio waves from screwing up my movies? I need help, nerd.

I have had, for several days now, a huge urge to buy an Xbox. I already have a PS2 and a Gamecube, but for some reason I want an Xbox as well. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I keep looking at PS2 games, but then I consider "wow, this same game is on Xbox and the graphics are better".

Please, people, convince me either to buy one or not. I can't stand all this waiting.

I've been secretly poking around dusty corners of the site for the past few days (scratchpad?!) and I think it's probably time to explain myself. Because I have a severe case of writer's block and front-page nervousness, I'm going to be a) random and b) list-y. I like lists. Here is a list of me.

• I have brown hair and blue eyes, long fingers and short legs, and a big butt I am very fond of.

• I am an architect. The interplay of space and light turns me on.

• I hate writing about myself.

• Here is a photo of a Native American shield cover I found on a trip to the Natural History Museum a few weeks ago.

isn't the design cool?

• Here is a photo of a bushbaby. My mom used to keep these as pets in Africa. They don't live long in captivity, unfortunately, but she was only a little girl and her brother kept catching them and bringing them home. They would feed them bugs and hold them. Bushbabies are tiny and have a remarkable vocabulary, including at least 4 seperate types of bushbaby conversation. A lot of noise can come from such a small animal. They also are one of the few non-primates to have 3D vision.

All of this I learned from the Natural History Museum, which is also where I took the photo.

• Shortly after taking these photos, the Natural History Museum also became the place where I first met Ben, conveniently wearing a Killoggs shirt. He was the first Killoggs member I met and this was only a few weeks ago. I also met his dad and his dad's girlfriend and the whole experience was very random and highly enjoyable. Since then I have also met Brandon, briefly, in O'Hare airport, where we shared furtive stolen minutes in a smokers lounge and ate stale donuts and yelled sophisticated social commentary at each other over the sound of diesel engines echoing through the parking structure where the smoking lounge was pleasantly located. Neither of us had any cigarettes.

• When I am a famous architect, and my buildings have induced a cultural revolution wherein the entire Unites States has suddenly become aware of the beauty of life, I am going to make the smokers' lounge the NICEST PART OF THE WHOLE BUILDING.

• A few months ago Marcia sent me gourmet chocolates from La Maison du Chocolate in NY. Not only that, but she wrapped the box in plain brown wrapping paper, and included a comic she drew and more stuff besides. This box arrived on a day when I was thoroughly sick of life and feeling very lonely in Boston, and I can't tell you how nice it felt. So, I want to repay Marcia with something equally cool. But, I am OUT of ideas. Actually I am full of ideas but they all seem boring. So, I need help from Killoggs. What is something SUPER COOL to send Marcia?

• I'm glad to be a member! Thanks!

• The End.

Francis, Jason Stollsteimer (of the Von Bondies), Gen

Last night I was officially inducted into groupiedom. And it was so incredible to me that I had to have this picture developed today in case it somehow just vanished off the film. I still can't get over it.

i wish the new heads would post pictures of themselves. They can do it here if they so desire.