did a kid write that?

"Smile, you are in God's country"

weather damage at the milk river pavillion

this is the "old gym," there is a new one now.

So Debbie, the newspaper accountant, has this adorable son 9-year-old and she brought him to work yesterday. I took down copy for a clasified ad on the phone and put it on her desk to bill and layout the ad. Her son is sitting at her desk eating lunch and he goes "Mom, look!" pointing at the ad text, "was some kid in here writing that?" She shushes him and says "no, it's okay... stop talking about it." Nope, I am 21 and my handwriting looks so childish and awful that it shocked a 9-year-old into thinking someone even younger had been in the office and left a note for his mom. I even re-wrote the note once to make it more readable. All that time doing extra handwriting assingments in first grade really didn't pay off.

On Tuesday morning, I will talk to Glen Templeton on the phone for 15 minutes because the week after he's performing at the county fair here. I think this may be of significance to country music fans? So far, in my research of this label-described up-and-coming star, I have concluded that he really needs a better PR person and someone to please, proof read his website. Your telling me that with all that country music money, someone can't write him a decent bio?

So I had a lot to do these last two weeks. Yesterday's front page content was 95 percent done by me, except the layout, which is sort of disappointing, but all words were mine. However, now things are slow again. So I'm off to chase down random feature stories.

I am very excited to go home soon and attend the twilight concerts in SL, the Decemberist!! Bright Eyes in August!!!! I can't wait. The 14-year-old in me is just thrilled that Bright Eyes has new music out. Also, it wouldn't hurt to see my sisters. Since Monday, I have been doing some early birthday present shopping. If I texted you to ask your shirt size, or some other random thing, that's why.