I’m officially moving my journal to this website, that way I can link it to Amanda’s, since apparently I am in love with her. I also love love love reading Jen and Diane’s journals, so it’s a win-win. As time permits, I will slowly archive old entries from the livejournal locale and move them over here. In the meantime, hope you enjoy.
I managed to survive Hurricane Rita, and fled to Austin to stay with boy-I-like. Only took me 8 hours to get there, which turned out to be excellent time. Anywho, boy is wonderful and lovely and I really just can’t say enough good things about him. Basically living with him for 5 days was interesting and made me like him more, not less, so that’s probably a good sign. He was so patient and wonderful during my countless emotional breakdowns throughout the week, so I really appreciated that too.
But the weekend was pretty crappy overall, as mom weirdly decided to stay in Lake Charles and ride out the storm. She stayed at the hospital where she works, so at least that was better than our house. I was seriously so scared. I called her right before the eye passed, and then afterward couldn’t get in touch with her for the entire day. It is just awful not knowing what the hell is going on or whether your family is safe and then seeing tv footage of your hometown completely ravaged by wind and rain is horrifying. Luckily she is fine and is now safely settled in Baton Rouge. Our home is mostly intact, but apparently my aunt’s house was completely destroyed so that’s awful too. I know it’s all just material possessions, but I just hate that my family has to deal with even more stress. It hasn’t been our year.
I did make an attempt to go to ACL. I skipped Friday due to stress, but met up with Erik for Arcade Fire that night. Tried my best to have fun plus saw Sean+Carol, Kat+Such and Luke+Ashlee. Saturday was day of worried-about-mom stress. Aneil convinced me that I had to get out of the house so I went to festivus, but it was so hot and I was so freaked out and dehydrated. I actually blacked out a little at one point, and couldn’t walk/sit up and/or stop shaking. Ha then I hit rock bottom when I crawled underneath a picnic table (just to escape the crazy hot sun) and then just started crying. You know, in public. It’s fine fine fine. He actually crawled under the table with me to give me hugs so that was most appreciated although I’m sure we looked crazy. It was also about 15 min after this episode that literally all of his friends decide to meet up with us so they can meet me for the first time. I was hot and sweaty and nauseous and had been crying and due to the lying on the ground actually caked myself with dirt and dry grass a la a human macaroon. I was so embarrassed and disappointed because I wanted so badly to make a charming first impression. Instead I was pretty ugmo and probably pretty unchatty and/or unpleasant. Not so good. By the end of the day I finally heard from mom and then I felt much better. I also got to see Bo and Anthony and Kevin at the festival so that lifted my spirits too. That night was Built to Spill at La Zona, which had its own awkward moments that I won’t go into here. Sunday was much improved though.
Anywho, in short, I didn’t really see that many bands and it was so hot and I was so sick I only half-consciously saw some. But here’s the list:
Built to Spill – great, of course. And played my favorite “Carry the Zero”
Robert Randolph – was a little out of it whilst watching, but this is when I got to see Bo and started feeling better. Plus, RR is real hot.
Fiery Furnaces – still somewhat dazed, but got to hold hands with boy, and then found Anthony so yay
Bruce Robison – this is the show where we saw the smarmy old couple grinding/two-stepping
Drive By Truckers – this is the show where we saw the adorable little girl rocking out
Bloc Party – lots of energy, better than cd, hot, British, yes.
Oasis – hahahaha. Jerks.
Eisley – think they were about 14 yrs old. Very adorable.
Rachel Yamagata – she was good, but kept having technical difficulties. Oh plus this is where we saw the adorable little girl with the beach ball.
Rilo Kiley – yes yes yes it’s true. Jenny Lewis IS really hot.
Arcade Fire – not as good as I’ve seen them but still delightful. Aneil and I fought over who has a bigger crush on Regine.
Wilco – Jeff Tweedy is adorable.
Okay so that pretty much sums me up. Monday was a day-long special date, which was lovely. And Tuesday the drive back was easy and short and uneventful. Work has been chaotic, with everything being restarted after the hurricane scare. Thursday I had my first exam at school, so hopefully I got at least a B. Also Amee and I watched the premiere of Alias. I only mention that because I remember a time when my life was so-o boring that “watching Alias” was an event worthy of being in the ol’ blog. I am actually really sick n’ tired of the recent constant drama and find myself yearning for the day I can re-introduce tv-watching as a major part of my boring life. Until then, I just hope to survive to see 25th birfday.
