Asheville.

well I made my first real road trip for jump last night. 2 hours each way... not too bad. Andrew accompanied me on the adventure. I was nervous that he wasn't going to think it was worth it. (I kind of didn't emphasize the facts that the show was a good 2 hours away, on a thurs night, it was 15 bucks, and the guys probably wouldn't come on til 10:30 or so.) Judging from his reactions though, I think he really enjoyed it, so that just goes to show you. If someone who has never seen them before thinks it was worth it to drive all that way, etc. then they really are amazing. That's all there is to it. I also got to see Ryan, so that was nice. How he predicted all those songs... man, he is a groupie. Some day I hope to attain his status.

Mark your calanders: April 15th at Ziggy's. I will be there... hopefully in the front row. Man, that post-concert feeling... there's just nothing like it. You know it was good when it lasts days later.

Anyway, yeah the show was pretty chill. They played some slower and certainly rarer songs because it was an acoustic show. Here are the songs that I remember them playing: By the Way they Dance, Matchbox whistler, Just a second, Mexico, Darkest Love, B-13, Dancing Virginia, Body Parts, BTDATD, Midnight (jay, not evan, but it's cool)Copper Kettle, Pink Lemonaid, Hold You Down, Not Today.

yeah. it was amazing. Perfect close to a ridculously hard week. wish I could see them every week.

My black P-500 extra fine Pilots

Ok, so this is weird, but there are these pens I've used since middle school that are absolutely amazing. I mean I write pretty small, so it's hard to find something that has a fine enough point yet still is smooth and clear. Yeah, so anyway... I had been really upset this past year because I couldn't find them anywhere. I searched at Walmart, office depot, staples, you name it. Yeah. So anyway, I had begun to give up hope of finding them, but then I saw the large office depot book in the bookstore here and decided to take a browse. Now this occurred last semester, and I have since then ordered 12 of these pens. (yeah, 12 seems like a lot, but I'll use them I promise.) Yeah, so you may be asking yourself something like ok, but why the heck are you writing about this? Yes, this is a logical question.

Here is the reason: today I was sitting in my interpersonal communication class when the girl next to me all of the sudden got my attention and said something like: Oh my gosh... let me see your pen. Oh! P-500's. Wow, you're going to think this is weird, but I love these pens, and they've stopped selling them. Where did you get them? Yeah, so how amazing is that? It was interesting that someone else out there has the same obcession with pens that I do. It would be a Wake Forest student.

the trend I've detected is towards low self-monitoring

I must say I'm in a darn good mood. Just got out of my interpersonal communication class where much class (and more specifically individual) participation occurred. It was nice. We did this thing where there was this list of around 250 adjectives, and we had to pick the ones that best described us. It was interesting, so I decided to volunteer my adjectives to the rest of the class, and my teacher sort of did a brief analysis of me. It was cool. He said I sounded like a very interesting person (haha) and that I would be interesting to get to know, but he made the prediction that someone would have to really make an effort to get to know me. yeah, I guess that's sort of true. So yeah, here they are because I'm sure you're curious... (in no particular order) self-conscious, perceptive, idealistic, imaginative, playful, intuitive, protective, cynical, trustworthy, determined, reflective, regretful, manipulative, religious, modest, elusive, naive, visionary, nervous, frank, sarcastic, youthful, inquisitive, honest, and indecisive. Yeah, I'm not proud of all of them, and a few of them I'd like to change, but I think it's pretty accurate.

uh huh, so I may still have some pesky hormones running around contributing to the being alone sucks state of mind, but today has been better. By the way, I think it's pretty crappy that everyone sort of assumes that boys have an excuse for not being able to control as much their attraction to girls as the general rule. It's all "because of their hormones," "boys will be boys..." What the heck? News flash: girls have hormones, too. Maybe we just deal with them better.

ok I'm done. thanks.

jumping back into life

Well I must be doing better because I caught myself running down stairs, skipping, and whistling. It's interesting because the last two days I didn't do any of that typically routine stuff due to my illness, but today I have just been doing better in general. The thing is, today I actually am in a better mood than I was in before I got sick, so I guess it's good to get sick every once and a while even if it sucks because it makes you appreciate stuff more. short and sweet today.

crap.

Awww man. So I think I'm definately sick. I rarely do this sick thing, so it sucks a whole lot. I also am pretty opposed to taking meds for a few reasons. (my dad hates them, so he has influenced me... my dad influences me a lot, really; I have the oppinion that by taking them you don't give your imune system a work out which leads to more sicknesses down the line; and I don't know... it just seems like cheating). So yeah, even though I was ridiculously tired from going rollar skating, I could not fall asleep. It's sad really b/c it could have potentially been one of my best night's sleep ever b/c I was so exhausted. (it defintaely was fun rollar skating though, and we convinced the little old woman to give us the tickets for about half price. sweet. Then of course the music was hoppin'. I had all sorts of flashbacks to middle school just through the songs. And then the girls trying to get down with Tim... haha. Funny, but also super sketcy. If it were anyone but Tim, it'd be really sketchy. Yeah, my thighs got a work out for sure.)

Yeah, so that's that. sorry... I complain too much, I know, but at least you don't have to read this if you don't want to. Cool, now it's time to watch movies in bed or at least that's the plan if I can get my hands on anything good. They only had 1/10 of the movies I wanted to check out from the library, and I already watched that one this afternoon--High Fidelity.)