No one left to watch your back now/No one standing at your door

Today my face has started to peel pretty bad after my "macho-man-no-sunscreen" Sat. afternoon so I closely resemble a zombie basically. My brother got laid off from his job yesterday, that was pretty bad news. He walked into the Al Serra HQ office and asked them bluntly if they were going to let him stay with autobody, what he'd been trained to do for 2 years, or if they planned to move him all around like they had been hinting at, and they said that he would not be able to continue there with what he was doing so they laid him off and made him sign something which turned out to be (unbeknownst to him) a voluntary release form, so he can't get unemployment it looks like. This of course follows my Dad being forced out in similar fashion, someone being hired in and being given almost all the jobs instead of my Dad + others that have been there for 5,10,15 years. I am not angry because my Dad landed on his feet at a new place now, but it is scary. I got an e-mail back from The Casual Dots (one of my Mega-bands of the Summer) & it goes :

Subject: Wonderful
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004

You guys' record has been my summer, I can't wait to see you guys live >someday and proudly wear a shirt from you. Thank you so much

~Justin, MI


RE: Wonderful
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004

thanks Justin! glad you like it. we're working on a new album, which
should be out next year on KRS. hopefully we'll make it to a town near
year
on tour.
take care,
Kathi // Casual Dots

That cheered me up very much. I was supposed to go to The Fiery Furnaces tonight but I just didn't feel up to it. I studied mostly for my Trig. tomorrow and shot the ball around into the darkness up at the school. Hopefully everything goes well at school tomorrow, for the classes and for the other thing...