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I'm Arts and Crafts Specialist at Camp Laurel, woo! We're going into the third week of camp (fourth week of work, since we had a week of training), and I'm really enjoying my job- at least, the part of my job where I work with the kids. Some of my co-workers aren't that great, but most are good, and a few are awesome. Elijah's Science and Nature Specialist, and he's been mostly enjoying it too. The regular eating, sleeping, and exercise schedule have been good for both of us. The job's also a good resume-builder.

We have our own apartment for the summer, about 35 minutes away from camp, so the commute isn't too bad. Living together has been really smooth for the most part. We've been able to do a bit of cooking, which I really enjoy. Most nights we stay for supper at camp, but our Saturday night homemade pizza has become a regular event (we put Guinness in the pizza dough. Delicious).

I'm still catching up on internet stuff, though- we finally got internet at the apartment, after a while of trying to find a decent deal (we're only here for about a month more, so it would be ridiculous to pay some of the prices that the companies want. Even dial-up would be too expensive, because we'd have to pay for a phone line). Elijah finally managed to get someone to waive the installation fee, so it only cost us $30 instead of $80. We are able to go online a little bit at camp, and there's wifi at the nearby community center, but they have a lot of blocked sites- LJ, Facebook, chat, etc. So now we're back on normal internet use, yay!

I've gotta start looking for a job for the fall again. I'm going to email the Girl Scout people I worked with last summer in Flag, maybe they know of something, in GS or elsewhere. It's hard to look for a job when I don't really know what kind of job I want, though. But it doesn't have to be the ideal job, just good, since I'll be in AZ for only two years anyway.

Have to figure out how I'm going to move out to AZ, too. It's about a four-and-a-half day drive, at about 8 hours a day. So no going home on weekends to pick up stuff like I did while at Wheaton. And also, I'm MOVING out there for two years, not just for one semester. It would be impossible to fit all my stuff plus Elijah's stuff that he has here for the summer into my car, and my dad absolutely does not want to make the drive out in his car, with Mom. And a van or something from Uhaul or wherever would be really expensive. So at this point it's probably either have my mom drive out in her car with a friend or sister or something, so I can have the extra space in her car (she got a new car! It's a pretty blue Ford Fusion), or Elijah and I will just go out in my car, and Mom and Dad will have to ship stuff for me, which also gets really expensive.

Either way, I have to start working up the list of what I'll be bringing. I won't have much time after camp to pack, so the list will help me get my thoughts together before I start packing. I also anticipate some Saturday trips home to start getting stuff ready. That will probably start happening in August.

Life is pretty much just camp for now. I'm enjoying being with Elijah so much. Last summer we spent two months together, living in his parents' house; this summer is a longer time together, living in our own place. I really enjoy being with him, and everything's going so smoothly that it's definitely a good sign for our future.