hi everyone! sorry it's taken me a while to get around to actually posting something. i've been reading! but the wireless internet at my apt. can be a bit dodgy, so i don't always have a connection for very long. i'll make this one longish and include pictures to make up for it. anyways, things are good in the STL. i've been at my new job now for about three weeks. it's a nice little law firm. very quiet and very laid back, so that's good. the attorneys have lives and interests outside of work, so they aren't crazy about time/billing/working 80 hours a week. it's nice, and i like having a regular schedule again. and not working in frontenac anymore is great. of course, it's hard to keep me entertained for eight hours a day, so i get a little bored sometimes, but all in all it's a good place to be for a while. until i decide to get another degree. i haven't done much on the theatre front lately, but that may start up again. i want to take some more fun classes, too, this summer. dance and choir are up there, but i'd like to take Spanish and guitar lessons also. and about a billion other things. i'm working through a training thing to do a 10-K. i'd like to do a marathon eventually, but i'm baby-stepping it. oh, i'm a newly converted pliates fan, too! my gym has classes, and my teacher is great. it's really good exercise, but way tougher than i thought it was going to be. let's see....well, i went to pigeon forge, tn. this past weekend, land of dollywood and smoky mountains and lots of fried food. my boyfriend, kevin, is playing with an irish group called glen road there during the month of april. so he was a very nice boyfriend and flew me there to visit, and i got to hang out in the park for free. it's a really nice area. we drove around the mountains for a while before he had to play on Sunday, and that was beautiful. dollywood is a little crazy, and the whole area is bred for tourists, but it was fun. they had a couple good roller coasters and some neat shows. it's a fun place to visit. but i will be glad when april is over and he comes back. aw..... i'll put a couple pictures up for your enjoyment. that's it for now, guys. now that i've been on once though, i promise to be back soon.

These are the Great Smoky Mountains!
Pretty! and Smoky!! and Great!!!















And for my mom, this is Kevin. He can't make a straight face in a picture, we discovered, and he's wearing a peasant shirt coz he's on break at dollywood, but you get the general idea.