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It's a struggle not having to struggle.

Really, after nineteen years of going up and down, and taking two steps forward and then taking one or three steps back, I think we were all feeling a bit weirded out coming into work and not finding some fire blazing on our desk, or in our voicemail or mailbox. I know Norman, kathleen and I were still really appprehensive as we waited for the other shoe to drop each day. Even though the first show hadn't dropped in the past year and a half. When you're doing something you're meant to do, everything seems to come with a lot of ease. Even the harder proects are easier to get through. Aaron Wilson was running around like crazy all year all year between our massive work with the Warped Tour and the countless other tours we got behind, like Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday, and others. Despite the long hours he put in and some of the bull that accompanied it, it was obvious he was totally digging his job.