This is one of the best days ever. No joke. 4 new albums came out today that will completely dominate my music listening for the next few months. I love it. If you'd like verbal confirmation, you can ask Mariana about my state of sheer joy when not only the new Jet, Decemberists, and Beck albums started downloading on iTunes... but the NEW KILLERS ALBUM!!! WHAT THE HECK MAN!!! This is freaking huge. It's days like this that remind me what my passion of music is all about. It's about great, big songs full of topics and music and lyrics that change the world. It's freaking changing right now and I'm part of it... the minute it started and came to life, I was there. I love it. I also talked to Mariana about us tonight. It was such a relief for both of us because we'd been dancing around and for each other (no boxing pun intended) with this topic for weeks. She told me that she had been talking to C.J's wife Renee about it for some time and she had been expressing thoughts of this year-long vow maybe coming to an end soon (for me). How flattering is that? She wanted to drop the whole thing... but she brought it up in a weird way. I knew she was going to. She opened it up for me to say a bunch of stuff and make a bunch of decisions. She said she'd feel just as content if she just dropped it now and started dating. I told her she shouldn't. I told her she's going through with it whether or not either of us likes it. She knew that would be the right answer, she was just hoping that I knew that as well (as hard as that is for me to come to grips with). I want to wait for her now. I don't want to flake out and have that lead to something bad. We've got something really good and pure and I want it to stay that way. She's incredible. And anyways, no one ever REALLY gets away with anything anyways. Who would we be kidding?