September 24, 2005

  • Dashboard Confessional is opening for U2 on Sunday. I am vindicated. Kanye West is opening in December - couldn't they have both??

    I'm gonna write until I get interrupted. I realize that day-to-day
    topics always are the least interesting... It's another transition
    point here in life. Here I am starting another year of college for the
    sixth time with an entirely different perspective than I had going into
    every year before this. I wish more strongly than the last time that I
    had my own house. That I had less debt to live with. (need three points
    for a series...um....) That I was further along growing up than I had
    hoped I would be.

    On the positive side, I'm glad that I'll have a master's degree in 8
    months. My summer went very well, and there's a great person to share
    it with. My friendships over the summer grew as well, setting me up for
    a much brighter semester than the last when I was returning to a school
    after having spent 3 years at UW-Stevens Point. I see my spiritual life
    growing in some aspects, but how many years have I also tread water?
    God knows...He's also been the most stable relationship ever... How
    does God....wait... why does God always stay so close? I am perpetually
    amazed at how the moment I close my eyes, I feel the love so
    immediately and so deeply like there was never a moment away... so real.

    My perspective keeps changing. I caught myself today. At our company
    picnic, we had a great time playing volleyball and yelling at each
    other. Haha...the Spanish/English conversations, cheers and jeers kept
    my brain running! As we were leaving with the rain coming, I couldn't
    help but compare: the guys with spouses and familes walking back to
    their minivans (though I despise them) with kids running around versus
    those of us single guys kicking our feet back to our own cars and
    trucks. My married co-worker John told me on Friday after whining about
    all the downsides of marriage, "You know Nick, when you get old, you
    marry for companionship." Sure, I'm not old, but maybe some day I will
    be. Now, sure, it's easy to be around tons of people, but in a decade,
    it probably would be nice to come home and not be alone.

    Which leads to...my Friday night alone! I can have fun alone at concerts. But I wasn't thinking I'd be alone! Here I thought three people would be out there with me to see Paul and Storm,
    but it was just me with 27 other people! The concert was hilarious, and
    I kept thinking the whole time about how some of my friends would have
    loved it... Oh well. It happens. I hope I get to hear a violin concert
    from my little sisters tonight! Gotta go - Victoria's party is starting
    on Crawford time!

Comments (11)

  • Nick, I need help. I don't seem to have any inner monolouge. My epidermis hurts. My armpit itches too, probably that shirt I was wearing.

  • Nothin wrong with getting something for nothing, I say. Kanye's a cool cat.

  • RYC: Oh, I would never stop going to thrift stores...:)  And the back-hair-delight thing, yes, it's true.  Arab men take pride in the amount of body hair they have.  And I made a startling revelation yesterday at the Dead Sea...you know Esau in the Bible, who was really hairy.  He's the father of the Edomites and Edom is in modern Jordan...so no wonder these guys are so hairy.  My roommate and I have dubbed them "Esau's Babies."  Just thought I'd share. :)

  • You should be indicted again! If it were Wilco opening, you would be completely exonerated. Dashboard...ugh.

  • Wish I were closer - I would've gone to the concert with you. By the way.. I like this entry. You don't usually write like this on here, but it's nice.

  • I'm guessing that's what you were calling me about?

  • I enjoy reading day-to-day topics.  As there is less preparation and more stream of consciousness, the entry becomes more real.  So thanks.

  • I give twenty eight thumbs up for this entry.  This is exactly what I like to see from you!  I completely understand what you mean about transition times ~ I sometimes think we're feeling these transitions more keenly now than we ever will again.  Soon enough it'll be time to settle into marriage, children, ROUTINES...so now is the time to appreciate that every school year begins completely differently than the one before. But somehow I think that your life will always been dynamic and ever-changing, you're entirely too excitable and restless to let things stay the same for too long *hug*

    P.S. I'm sorry I already had plans for Friday, otherwise I totally would've played backup-backup-backup concertgoing partner

  • Thes single years are the best despite the lonliness that sometime swirls round,  I watch my married friends who have to ask if they can go do this or that or have to find the babysitter.  I think a lot of them would enjoy going to a concert alone...at least you are enjoying life and able to appreciate the humor of the concert.

  • Why didn't you say something earlier?!  I LOVE Dashboard!!!  I didn't even know U2 was going to be here...I guess I missed that somewhere along the line.  But a Dashboard opener?!  I'd spend the $50 to just see them...

    I'm such a loser. :)   I love it.

  • ryc: I've been having a good time following turabiangirl's saga, too.  I can't help but analyze it, since it's what I do for a living. :)   As for the alternate ending, I had no idea it would be such a hit.  Good idea about checking the inseams, though. :)

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