my brother quit that college painting "internship" - internship is in quotes because really, the whole thing sounds like a scam/legal pyramid scheme-y thing. he went to like 40 houses one afternoon, and got a crappy 4 potential leads. that seriously sucks. and his little territory is way far from where we live...far. like 30-35 minutes. before the unfortunate afternoon in question, he was all like defending this lame job. i'm glad he finally came to his senses and realized how much it actually sucks. there is real potential to make a large sum of money, but as i've heard over and over again from people who've participated, the money is so not worth the blood, sweat, and tears.

there was a jems concert on saturday and that was fun - though it was a bit...lengthy. and on sunday, it was good times celebrating the birthdays of amy and june! the present-opening part of the evening was great! lots of funny moments. very similar to the christmas gift scene in about a boy. amy opens her banana republic box and screams "it's a shirt!" (as if the rest of us were confused about what it was) :) and then june opened her harry potter dvds, and as she opened her next present, which is a large and flat box, she's like "what is it?" (the rest of us are thinking...does she not see DVD-some model number written on the box?) then she asks, "is it a car deck?" since we all chipped in for the gift, we all know what it is already, and we're just cracking up because we have no idea where her train of thought is going...or coming from. she felt silly when she realized it was a dvd player. and i think somebody got that captured on digital camera movie mode! woohoo! you can't buy this kind of entertainment :)