time for the next day’s worth of installments. i really hope anyone reading this isn’t thinking, “just shut up already, your trip was only interesting to you, and i don’t want to hear about it.” well, then come back monday, i guess, i should be caught up by then and you can read about my first day of school. for now though:

saturday, dec. 29

my pal gabe picked me up from lynn’s place and we went into the city again to find our friend madilyne, kill a few hours, and go to a lucky boys confusion show at the metro. i’m not a big lucky boys confusion fan really, but (A) gabe knows a few of the guys in the band, and after calling one, got us all on the guest list, making it a free concert for all four of us (matt came later). it’s hard to turn down a free rock show. also (B) it meant i got to go to the metro again, which is cool in itself because i hadn’t been there since high school, obviously, what with me living in california and all. and i think that’s still one of the best places to see a show i’ve been to so far. it’s just the right size and for extra fun, you can feel the floor moving when a lot of people are jumping on it. you have to love that.

so the show was decent and i had a lot of fun. we had some food at matt’s older sister’s apartment in the city (located only a half-block away from the hilariously named gay bar “the manhole”, who’s marquee read “new year, same hole” on one side and “santa came. merry christmas” on the other), and we had some free deep dish pizza which rocked my tastebuds. gabe dropped off the other two and we went to his house and played video games until 4am and that was that for saturday.