Hello friendly, personal blog readers!

How's everything with you? Good I hope. I am doing mass procrastinating on writing a final paper about the natural disaster of my choice (suggestions welcome!--I'm thinking the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's perhaps) so I thought I'd do my monthly check in just to blab on about my life. I know I should probably update my official site with this stuff instead of just post links to this blog over there, but this one is just really so much easier for me to operate.

Anyway, I suppose a lot of you probably heard about my run-in with the law, and I just want to take this time to sincerely apologize for that mistake. There is really no good excuse for drinking (or smoking) and driving, no matter how little it is. I knew that then as I know it now, and all I can really say is that I dropped the ball. I am lucky to have great friends and fans who forgive me when I do stupid things. I appreciate you all, and for those who are curious I am all signed up for my mandatory driving classes and without a license for a year, though I did manage to get school privileges.

Speaking of school, it's going well. Math is hard, but I am getting by. English, Geology and 'my sex class' as I like to call it (human sexual behavior problems) are all great though, and I'm really excited to be done with my first quarter in just a few more weeks. I am getting very excited for a few days off at Thanksgiving, it's my favorite holiday and we're taking a drive up to my favorite place, Oregon. Couldn't be better.

In terms of work, I wrote my first new song in forever about a week ago when I was feeling really stressed out. James is turning our den into a studio right now and as such all of our musical instruments are strewn out around our living room (see here: proof) so I just put down my math book and grooved on the piano a little. I always like writing on piano more than guitar, what about you? Oh yes, I suppose my label (yes, I still have one) would like me to mention that I have a song on the He's Just Not That Into You soundtrack. It's called 'You and I' and I wrote it and sang it with the best of all best friends, Danny Palmer. CLICK HERE FOR NEW SONG. More things you should check out include: Jayda Barclay's solo album (if you haven't yet), Chloe Porter's solo EP, and Miranda Callenway's new record, I was honored to collaborate in some way on all of them!

I think that's all I have to share with you for now, I'll be doing a Christmas benefit show in New York sometime next month, so be on the look out for that. In the mean time, let's keep with the spirit and tell one another what we're most thankful for today.

Since I'm known to be a sap, I'll go first. I'm still most thankful to find this in my local cereal aisle: