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Number one on my mind is that my fingernails are painted blood red. Besides a vine snaking around my wrist (henna tattoo, procured cheaply at a recent music festival here in town) nail painting is the cheapest body modification I can afford at the moment. In the near future I hope to try this new temporary mousse color to get purple hair for a week. Distant and murky I can see an eyebrow piercing. . . Maybe?

Thank you to all you praying saints of God, thank you GOD, Jeremy has a temporary job! Permanent job, please? See how grateful I am. Sorry. Once again this comes just in the nick of time to pay our bills, but only lasts through bill paying for maybe October 1st. At least I should have a few substitute teaching jobs before then. I hope. You see I worry not for the things of this Earth like food or shelter. Losing the car and not being able to afford coffee, that does cross my mind in these situations. But Jeremy has many applications in and more to come.

Next. Living here is great. Luke and I make movies together and I'm working on making a CD of mostly original songs, with Luke playing the insturments. Huzzah!

Finally, Luke has a job working as a musical director of a youth foundation in town. He will be paid, handsomely, enough to make me proud. I will be his unpaid assistant and then more than likely when a grant kicks in I'll be paid, as long as they don't change their mind and kick me out for Luke's nepotism. However, I'm qualified for this. We will be creating music workshops from scratch, directing a youth choir, and writing musicals. So far the topics I want to do are Ancient Roots of Modern Music, World Music, African American Music, Drumming, and Singing in Foreign Language, and a G rated version of Hair (that probably won't happen). Luke has a cool workshop on crafting a singing persona, creating a band, and different periods of 20th Century Music to present.