Kool Aid

I spent a few hours today wrestling with wallpaper, helping mom out. I'm no interior designer, but I think we finally got it tackled and looking semi-professional. I don't think I've found myself a new career calling, though.

Speaking of careers, I finally have some firm dates about starting work and moving into the new apartment. I think that, more than anything else, has really put me at ease and got me looking forward to the next big chapter that starts in early August. And what's even better, this summer break is actually going to turn out to be an honest-to-goodness summer-long break, which I certainly think I can use. There's the small matter of being able to afford to live since I'm starting work a little later than planned, but we'll manage.

I had something else really cool that I was going to put here, but I forgot what it was.

The kids are getting pretty excited about this new ONE Campaign that started up recently. I've always been a little cautiously pessimistic about the effectiveness of online petitions such as this, but I figure a little current events awareness raising could never be bad. The campaign basically seeks to raise AIDS and global poverty awareness by sending an e-declaration to President Bush as he heads to the G8 summit in a couple of weeks. (You know Bono had a hand in this, naturally.)

In a related series of events, to tie in with the global summit, the people behind 1985's Live Aid are putting on a series of Live8 concerts all over the place on July 6. (I'm not sure where the "Live8" name come from, though, since there are only 6 concerts.) Lots of good artists are performing for these, so if nothing else, good music will be made that day. Here's hoping some small sort of difference can be made in the world, somehow.