Oh, Holland.

We found out today that our Dutch internet provider denied our request to transfer the account from Laurel's name to mine. So our service is going to be canceled and it'll be a matter of days until our cable and internet disappear. I never had this happen, a company turning me down when I just wanted to keep paying them for a service they are already providing. You win this round, Amsterdam!

Really good question.

After the show tonight, a Dutch girl was talking to me and asked me if I felt like I really know what Holland is like after living in Amsterdam.

It made me think: I don't feel like if I know what it's like to live in Amsterdam. This job is all I really do. I have 4 months until the end of my contract, and I'm beginning to understand why people stay for more than one year. I'm just realizing that I won't be living in Europe soon, or ever again.

Bye Laurel.

Laurel left right as we opened "Best of Boom 2006", as it will be dubbed. Laurel is the 7th cast member to leave Boom since I got here.

We both got here on the same day and have gone through a lot here, some good, some bad. It'll be weird to not have her here, and shitty not performing with her.

Shelly, from my improv team Otis back in Chicago, wrote me this:

"life is a wild exciting ride. whatever you are gonna do next will be right. i am always reminding my self this: ENJOY THE RIDE. ENJOY what you aredoing RIGHT NOW, cause its ultimately all we have. too much worry aboutwhat's next can ruin today. anyhow, i had cancer so i can say stuff like that. in case you forgot."

At first, I was like: of course I'm enjoying what I'm doing, don't be crazy! Then I thought, wait, am I? Do I? Ever?

I don't know if I'm much of a "live-in-the-now" kind of guy.

I'd like to be though. Does that count?