I’ve got a box of wine, anyone up for going out tonight? Placido Calypso Flamingo misses you guys. I just booked a ticket home for the first weekend in August–yay! Sorry I’m going to miss out on the NYC reunion though! Shucks. You’ll have to have drinks for all of us who won’t be there. Are you all having fabulous summers?

Vegas is still great (except for the weather, which is heinous, but I suppose it could be worse, somehow…)! I just got a raise at work and am switching to a different shift (no more 3AM wake-up call: YIPPEEE!!). The new schedule does involve some weird hours though, two nights of 9pm-5am and the rest of 4:30pm-12:30am. The overnight one is a little tricky, but it’s nice to see something new. This schedule is only temporary, I’ll actually be starting to work normalish daytime hours in a week or two.

Starting to feel settled in here. I’ve been going out with people from work and even on a few dates (imagine that!), so Vegas is starting to feel a bit more familiar. I don’t think it will ever feel homey, it just doesn’t have that…feel, but at least it’s not so lonely anymore, ding!

I’m looking forward with extreme excitement to my weekend back on the East coast. Phoebe will be home that weekend too (that was her new baby on the main blog page the other day), as well as our foreign exchange student from Venezuela–so it should be one giant party. I can’t wait to see everyone and be cold again!!

Monsoon season has started here, which means it rains for 5 minutes every other day and feels exactly like a greenhouse outside. It was so exciting when the first rains came. I was driving home from work and it started pouring all of a sudden. I opened the window to see if it was real (unfortunately at the same time the truck next to me drove through a huge puddle) and got completely soaked. But it was nice to feel and smell water for a change! The temperatures are starting to shoot up–105 highs everyday this week, and it always reaches the high. At night it gets down to about 85.

I learned how to play black jack at a real casino card table last week! Woohoo! And while playing wheel of fortune nickel slots I won $34! I’m starting to learn where all the best places to go are, so I feel it’s time for you guys to come visit. There are so many amazing clubs here–the clubs we fantasized about in Binghamton!! The other nice thing is that it’s always Ladies’ Night in Vegas! Hellow, ding!!