How about a quick update while I'm resting my feet? Good? Ok.

This last week was quite an out of the routine combination of random, rare but fun occurrences.  It started off with an exam where I had to handwrite a 6-page essay in an hour - my hand was killing me! I realized that I never write that much anymore. Then I headed up to LA to go on a quick mid-week trip to San Francisco with my friend Matthew. We drove up Wednesday morning, went into the city for the afternoon and then headed to Oakland to see the Muse concert - the reason we went up in the first place. The trip was really fun and the drive didn't even seem too long. We were lucky to get amazing weather in the city so that made for a beautiful and relaxing day. And the concert was amazing. We were on the floor and were about the equivalent of the 4th row back from the stage for the majority of the concert. Pretty different from the one I went to in Stockholm in October - much more geared toward their American fans - played more of their "rock" songs. And I found out today that they are coming back to the States in the fall for another tour! So I'll be going to the San Diego and LA concerts and possibly the Anaheim one too. You are all welcome to come with! :)

Thursday we were set to drive back to LA and I was going to take Matthew to LAX to meet up with Michelle and Joel where they were to fly out to London for an 18-day trip to Europe. Well, we woke up on Thursday to calls and texts that a volcano had erupted in Iceland (title of this post is the name of the volcano) and had grounded all air traffic to and from Western and Northern Europe - I'm sure you all heard about it in the news. So their flight was cancelled and we had to spend about four hours on the phone trying to reschedule flights, hotels and trains in order to get as much money back as they could and move their flight to Saturday. I drove back the rest of the way and was home Thursday night to some sad friends who were not in a plane on their way to an awesome vacation.

So then Friday I had another adventure - going to Anaheim Comic-Con for my internship. One of our clients is a pop-culture/comic t-shirt retailer that shows all the different comic conventions around the country and this was the first closest one we could go to. So we showed up and were supposed to work with the celebrities that were gonna be at the convention, giving them t-shirts and getting pictures with them and interviewing them and stuff. This would have been totally awesome except the convention was not organized very well, or at least the part that we were involved in. And these "celebrities" - try people like Frau Farbissina from Austin Powers, The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld, Kevin Sorbo aka Hercules, and other various has-beens or random side characters. It was fun but a long day of trying to remember who people were and my phone was dying the whole time so I couldn't even be playing on it! Well, I'm hoping to get hooked up with the San Diego Comicon with that client so we'll see what happens there.

So back to the volcano-affected Europe trip - on Saturday, I was supposed to take the weary travelers to the airport to finally make it on their trip. I dragged myself out of bed at 6am and wandered into Michelle's room only to hear her on the phone finding out that the flight was cancelled again because the ash was still a danger. The trip has ended up being completely re-scheduled and now I have friends who will be here for the next two weeks when I was planning on them being gone. Fun but also a little stressful...

...and this is because - school is winding down for the semester. I have four big projects due in the next two weeks and final exams in a month. In addition to that, I am working 3 days a week at Sport Chalet now and still have my internship which is about 10 hrs/week. So I've become really busy pretty quick. I'm adjusting pretty well and it is nice to be busy as long as I can get everything done.

After this semester is over I get a week break, including the LOST series finale!, and then I start up my last semester the Thursday before Memorial Day. I have my one last class until August 20th and then I'm done. I have already set up a countdown on my computer. I can't wait to be done with school!!

So since I start up with summer school on Memorial Day weekend and I'll have to work at Sport Chalet, I won't be able to go to Gualala but I am planning on coming up for the lake week at the end of June so I am excited to see you all there!

Well, that's all for now!