update monday...

I feel bad that it’s been so long since I’ve posted...hopefully I haven’t alienated any readers, though I don’t know if I have any regulars. Ah well. Right now I’m listening to Panic! At The Disco and feeling slightly mesmerized by the throbbing in my right big toe. A lot has gone down in the past week or so...not life altering or anything, really, but just busy.

Seeing Fall Out Boy was pretty sweet and lead to a couple of thoughts: a)I felt sort of old, given all the teenie boppers there, but should I feel bad for liking their music? I am younger than most of the band’s members, but is their demographic really that much younger than me? I don’t know, but this leads to thought b. b)I was highly jealous of those teenie boppers. Why? Because, growing up in the middle of nowhere with little money and almost no city friends meant that I never got to go to such awesome concerts when I was in high school. I’m so curious what I would be like if I had had those opportunities. On the other hand, maybe it’s just the genre of music...I wasn’t totally into the pop scene, nor what passed as rock in the late 90s. I am thankful for the amazing concert experiences I have had (Sonshine, etc...). Thought c)Something I’m slightly embarrassed to admit...after the FOB concert, I developed an immediate crush on the entire band, something I hadn’t come into the concert with. I seriously don’t think I’ve had a crush like that since high school. I spent most of my work week being unproductive and reading more about the band. I’m pathetic, I know. Lucky for me, a more “grown up” scenario was on tap for later in the week.

Easter weekend flew by in a blur. Great party at my cousin Adam’s. Has anybody heard of the drinking card game Presidents and Assholes? I’m beginning to thing it must be more of a Plainview thing, but it had to have come from somewhere. I’m very glad MA is done student teaching...it will be nice to see her around here more. Apparently we’re definitely living together next year, so hopefully apartment hunting and moving and all that will go smoothly. I sort of wish she’d be willing to live at my current residence, but I understand her concerns. I’m excited to live with her...it should definitely be a different dynamic.

Had dinner with Robert last Monday...he hasn’t nailed anything down for after graduation and he’s starting to get nervous. I felt terrible that I didn’t have anything to say to him. You would think I would since I was in the exact same situation a year ago, but no. Maybe just praying about it is the best option...I don’t know. Saw Ice Age II on Tuesday. It was pretty cute. I really appreciate the different humor they throw into those things.

So, to (sort of) knock me out of my FOB obsession, Jenny and I had tickets to the sold out Franz Ferdinand/Death Cab concert Thursday. It rained and both she and I were running late, but the timing worked out so well, I couldn’t have asked for a better night. The demographic this time was clearly more my age group, so I didn’t feel as out of place and everyone there seemed really laid back and unpretentious. FF was really energetic, well everyone except for the bass player...he just sort of stood around and did his thing while the others went crazy. They definitely made me want to get up and dance the whole time. Death Cab for Cutie was better than I thought they would be. While I’d listened to their album a couple of times and thought it was okay, I left the concert excited to go home and listen to it again. “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” is my favorite track off of Plans.

I spent the weekend at my parents, not that I saw much of them. My sister and I went to see “American Dreamz” on Friday. I don’t know whether to think it’s an incredibly dumb movie or sort of clever... Saturday was my brother’s prom, so my mom was running about with that. My sister and I rented “Prime,” which I would recommend, I suppose. Yesterday was kind of an odd day: church, lunch, solitaire, Anchorman, taco dip (is amazing), cards, driving to grandma’s, riding home with my mom talking about nothing (it bothers me that she complains about him in front of me), painting toenails, my brother being absolutely bonkers (he got some kind of flu or something and was seriously out of his mind and saying the craziest things...it was sooooo funny, but I shouldn’t have laughed at him), and NO NEW GREY’S!! Seriously, it’s been like a month, you’d think they could indulge us with a new episode.

Today I was at the doctor’s...in the actual Mayo building as a patient for the first time since I was like six...kind of weird, but not completely unpleasant. The sucky thing is that I have to go back next Tuesday. They said it would be better if I didn’t run any errands today, so I just drove back to Minneapolis...hopefully there’ll be the perfect opportunity for a Target run later this week. I got back here at like 11:30...I really should have gone to work, but I thought Laura was going to practice on me today and I really wanted to veg out, so I did, nodding off in front of the tv and watching Jeopardy! (my favorite show ever, which I never get to watch). Not that I really had anything to do today, but I feel like I totally wasted the day. But, it is only 6:30 and the sun is up...I could still write or something if I wanted to. Maybe I will...