Hee, hee!

It occurred to me today that yesterday was the anniversary of Micheal Jackson's death. I don't think I realized how early into the summer this was until now. I say this because I don't have a job this summer, unlike last year when I worked as a camp counselor.

The entire camp was MJ crazy, I even asked my senior counselor to make me a CD, which she did [it was the only productive thing she did all summer]. He was on the radio, television, everywhere. Before he died the only thing I knew about him was one day he was on the news and the anchorwoman said something about him molesting someone. As a young kid I had no idea what it meant and then asked my mom, I wasn't sure if I was glad about asking or not, but that was all I really knew about him.

All at once my eight and nine year-old campers were dancing to his music and singing along. I do remember my mom telling everyone how the Jackson family was making a fortune off of his death. I guess what I'm trying to say is that to me Micheal Jackson's death does not feel like it was a year ago. I feel like I have been hearing about him all of the time. Right after his death there was all of the gossip about his family and his physician. After that the movie came out, so advertising was everywhere, and like any movie, there was a ton of advertising for when the movie came out onto DVD.

I am guilty of having an MJ phase, I wore that CD out, but with all of this hype I can't seem to grasp the time between the two dates. I thought maybe I felt this way because my school work got in the way between the two days and I didn't notice how much time that really was; school can go pretty fast. Maybe it was the Micheal Jackson calendar that my supervisor had up that reminded me every Thursday that he was gone.

I can't put my words straight, partially because it's late and partly because I don't really understand this myself. All I know is that I cannot believe I just devoted a whole post to Micheal Jackson.

ELEVEN + VINCENT VAN GOGH = AWESOME!

See, it wasn't all about him.