took care of everything important i had to do today, so no i CAN be jibba jabberin’.
don’t have much to say just yet though. i did get a nice package from my sweet mother though with cookies and a new book and other stuff. i’m very excited to finish my current book and start the new book. so excited, i might just get down to that right now.
i know it’s not like me to not post until this late in the day, but sometimes there are more important things to do. have no fear though, the page won’t be going down after all. thank heavens.
and, it turns out today was the last day of work for me too. the final wrap up: i learned a lot and will definitely take my experience with me on into the future. thank you, everyone involved, for being decent people, giving me a chance, and being the coolest bosses i’ve ever had. try not to miss me too much and i’ll do the same…(snif snif…)
but i still have important things i need to take care of so i can’t be jibba jabberin’ right now. later, definitely, but not right now.
from unbearable lightness of being:
all this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his hand in her sleep. he felt an ineffable love for her. her sleep must have been very light at the moment because she opened her eyes and gazed up at him questioningly.
“what are you looking at?” she asked.
he knew that instead of waking her he should lull her back to sleep, so he tried to come up with an answer that would put the image of a new dream in her mind.
“i’m looking at the stars,” he said.
“don’t say you’re looking at the stars. that’s a lie. you’re looking down.”
“that’s because we’re in an airplane. the stars are below us.”
“oh, in an airplane,” said tereza, squeezing his hand even tighter and falling asleep again. and tomas knew that tereza was looking out of the round window of an airplane flying high above the stars.
could anything be sweeter than that? i can’t possibly follow that up with anything worthwhile of my own. maybe tomorrow.
oh, i get it…about the BUSH, like australia! you know i didn’t get that the first time i heard it because i’m not as sharp as i try to make people think i am.
hopefully, i’m sharper. but i just missed it this time. blog on josh! i’m glad you are writing.
so far i’ve done only a lot of non-exciting things this weekend, but in a good way. i’m just in that sort of mood i guess, where staying home and listening to music and not really doing anything sounds just perfect. and i slept until 11:30 today, which was perfectly okay with me. i was pretty sleepy, and there’s no reason to hurry and wake up so i can sit around idly. my cd’s and the book i’m reading aren’t going anywhere without me. and that’s as it should be i think.
coming up is the last week of work for the summer, and part of me is looking forward to it, if only because who knows what could happen the last week. it’ll be interesting i’m sure. but also sort of strange to not see those people again, maybe ever, but at least not four whole work days every week. i’m sure i’ll miss them sometimes in the way you miss anyone who you knew and liked but never quite grew to be great friends with. you know, think of them now and then, wonder how they’re doing, and smile at this or that thing they did that you remember. all complaining aside it wasn’t a terrible way to spend my summer and it’s been worthwhile, which is more than i can say about all of my past summer jobs. but i can save this wrap-up commentary after i’ve really wrapped it up, so for now it’s bagel time.
wait a second, i can’t buy any more school supplies because i don’t have any money. i could only buy them if i bought them from the campus bookstore and put it on my fee bill, but that isn’t enough motivation to pay twice what i’d pay at office depot for a binder with an ugly school logo on it instead of a handsome plain one. guess i won’t get my hands on any of those sweet index cards or roller ball black ink pens until later this week. ah well.
vagrant concert II last night was sort of sad for me. don’t worry, hey mercedes was outstanding. man, are those guys talented and fun. so much better than the bands that they had to open for, in fact. how is it that these really skilled musicians had to open for no motiv? i swear those guys are a fluke. how they became well known in any form has to just be a joke. but hey mercedes, for those 30 minutes, blew me away with impressive guitar playing, kickass drumming, and sweet sweet singing, and it was a blast. then we stood around for the next two and a half bands waiting to see if there’d be another surprise guest worth seeing, but if there was we didn’t see them because we left during saves the day this time. it’s too bad we had to collectively (two of us) pay 42 dollars for the pair of tickets and another ten for parking, two nights in a row, for only about 3.5 sets of music that we wanted to see very much. but i couldn’t have missed either show because the one band i went for was amazing both nights. so it goes.
oh: this page may or may not be down for a while. if loyal fans (all 4 of them) read this post and come back another time and find nothing, my apologies. hopefully i’ll be back soon. if they dont’ read this post but come to find the page not here, even further apologies, but i guess they’ll never hear them. if the page never goes down, well, so much the better for all (five) of us.
now i have to go buy some school supplies so i’ll be on my way.
hells bells, i just spent 440 dollars on school books. that’s some dent in your wallet there, brian. did you get hit by a truck?
no, but i did get a copy of “sources of indian tradition”, thankfully. and the worst part is, i may not even be done buying yet. i haven’t bought anything for my computer class and i’m pretty sure they’ll want me to have some manual or another i’ll only refer to once or twice for the semester.
but no matter. put that book charge on my fee bill and let the incoming student loans handle it. i’ve got to get myself ready to roll to the vagrant extravaganza part II. been listening to hey mercedes all afternoon and i am certainly thrilled to get to see them in a couple hours. excellent. just gonna grab some eats and maybe read a bit until then, but don’t you worry. i can do all that while remaining “pumped”, as they say. i’ll let you know how it wall goes and how me and the singer from saves the day get in a fight after i say he looks like he’s only fifteen, and i beat him down with my chain wallet and a signed dashboard confessional poster for my friend charlie. heh heh heh.
the imagination is a powerful tool, use with caution.
so…i slept in late today because i don’t work on fridays, and i rocked too hard last night to possibly get up before 10:30am. although the concert was not what i expected. the website listed “reggie and the full effect, saves the day, dashboard confessional, ultimate fakebook”. and when you see concert listings, they usually go in reverse listed order, right? well we walk in, and two minutes later the curtain opens with an enormous black-metal-looking reggie banner hanging in back. thank god we didn’t miss any of that because they opened with slayer’s “raining blood” cover which was amazing. man, what a show they put on. worth the ticket price alone. for “something i’m not”, a guy in a bear costume came on stage and sang the metal vocal part, then did the highest, most laid-out stagedive i’ve ever seen live. it was intense. the bear costume guy later came back to the pit just for fun during some other songs. so i was in a pit with a bear costume guy. huh. it wasn’t a full bear costume though, more like footsy pajamas with a hood with bear ears on it, and a cute little nose thing on a rubber band that went around the back of his head. whoa.
and the reggie singer guy wore a viking helmet and had a huge plastic sword for when he sang dwarf invasion. it was pretty fun.
but apparently we missed ultimate fakebook altogether (damn early start times… we got there at 7:05!), and the lineup afterward was dashboard (eh…), then face to face out of nowhere who are okay but whom i was never that into, and finally saves the day (another eh…). but it was fun anyway. i was in dire need of a concert because it’s been over a month i think. not counting jimmy last week, that is. i’m still making up for july. seeing hey mercedes tonight should do the trick nicely. oooooh, i can’t wait. so tonight i’m all about getting there at 5:30 just to make sure we don’t miss anything, and leaving early unless there’s talk of another big surprise band that i’m actually into.
oh, and of course there was the post-show trip to carney’s. if you don’t know what that is, you really should. they have probably the best . . .(dot dot dot!) hamburgers and hot dogs in the world. or at least that’s what the sign says. and you get to eat inside a restaurant that used to be a train car. tee hee!
i’m off to buy textbooks for school in about a week. now that’s rock and roll right there — buying “fundamentals of corporate finance” and “principles of marketing” and “source book of chinese philosophy”. whew. no one can touch me for being the rockin’-est business major around.
ps–maybe i’ll see this guy at the show tonight. i totally forgot to look last night. so it goes… (vonnegut).
okay it’s getting close to go time finally, which means hours away from concert time. thank goodness. i think i’ll be able to survive the next 45 minutes okay. and if not, it was nice blogging for you.
i’ve written a lot already today and don’t have much more to say, so i’ll save my energy for a big concert review tomorrow. or late tonight, depending how things go. either way, kiss goodbye to this week for me because my weekend starts in less than an hour, and i’m out the door with a vengence.
well a farewell lunch for the other intern made my hungry go away (excellent word choice), but i’m still jonesin’ for the rock. i need to get out of here and be in a room with deafening music as soon as possible! i’m flipping out today. knowing that it’s the last day of the second to the last week of my job is not doing good things for my ability to sit still.
5 hours still? i’m flipping out!