Hey family!
I haven't posted for a couple weeks, because I'm basically a terrible blogger. Just terrible. One of the worst, really. Lots has happened in the last couple weeks, the biggest thing being my move back to New Orleans. I left good ole' Colorado the Thursday before last, and drove and drove and drove. I rolled into the Big Easy at 10 the next morning, after a night filled with coffee, loud rock and roll, and blasting A/C. I blasted Rancid's "New Orleans" when I got into town. It was cool. I spent the weekend unpacking and catching up with all my homies. My new dorm room is awesome, it's about twice the size of my old one, and I only have to share a bathroom with 3 other dudes instead of 30.
Last Monday classes started, and most of mine are pretty cool. I'm taking Intermediate Macroeconomics, History of Modern Philosophy, Spanish III, Intro to Latin America, and Calculus I. Calc is kicking my butt, but all my other classes are either fairly easy or enjoyable, so I'm not too overwhelmed. My philosophy class is really cool.
Last weekend a few friends and I accidentally happened upon a Mid Summer Mardi Gras parade. We're halfway to real Mardi Gras, so the city decided to party. It was pretty cool, a bunch of drunk people running around in costumes.
Overall the year is starting off really well. I'm super glad to be back, and I'm having a blast. I'll totally try to post again next Monday, maybe with some pictures of my exploits.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Warped Tour 2010
Yesterday Skyler, his friends Michael and Michael and I drove to Denver to check out Warped Tour 2010. For those of you who aren't as hip as me, Warped Tour is a big traveling music festival featuring lots of punk and hardcore and whatnot bands. 7 stages were set up in the parking lots by Invesco Field, and were surrounded by tens of thousands of teenagers with elaborate hair.
When we got there the first show we went to was Anti-Flag at the main stage. The show was awesome. Chris #2, the bass player, crowd surfed on me, and for the last song of the set Pat set up his drums on the ground in front of the stage, and I got be there right next to him. They played a bunch of my favorite songs, and it was a ton of fun.
After Anti-Flag we had a couple of hours to kill before Dropkick Murphys went on, so we wandered around, saw a few smaller bands, one of which tossed me a t-shirt, and slam danced in a facetious manner. It was crazy hot, and I ended up spending 20 bucks on water. ($4 a bottle...) We caught part of The Casualties' set, and while I'm not really a fan they were entertaining and their hair was cool.
After The Casualties we headed back to the main stage for Dropkick Murphys, and man, it was insane. The band was awesome, they totally ripped. During Buried Alive, one of my favorite DKM tunes, Al Barr, the singer, and I made eye contact for like 6 seconds while we shouted the lyrics at each other. It was magical. The pit was absolutely crazy, though, and was filled with a bunch of drunk, middle aged, overweight bald dudes with goatees who felt that it was their personal duty to piss off everybody around them. I'm not generally a violent person, but I came close to fighting one of them several times. Towards the end of the set a guy next to me boosted me up and I crowd surfed away from the drunk dudes. They took me up to the stage and for a second I was 3 feet away from Ken Casey, the bass player. I thought about jumping up there, but I didn't feel like tangling with security.
During Dropkick Murphys I got separated from Skyler and the Michaels, so I pushed my way back to the stage for Alkaline Trio. They totally rocked, too, and they crowd wasn't a bunch of morons like DKM's was. After their set I found the kids and they all wanted to go home, so I didn't get to see Pennywise or Every Time I Die. Oh well, it was still a blast.
10 days 'till I leave.
When we got there the first show we went to was Anti-Flag at the main stage. The show was awesome. Chris #2, the bass player, crowd surfed on me, and for the last song of the set Pat set up his drums on the ground in front of the stage, and I got be there right next to him. They played a bunch of my favorite songs, and it was a ton of fun.
After Anti-Flag we had a couple of hours to kill before Dropkick Murphys went on, so we wandered around, saw a few smaller bands, one of which tossed me a t-shirt, and slam danced in a facetious manner. It was crazy hot, and I ended up spending 20 bucks on water. ($4 a bottle...) We caught part of The Casualties' set, and while I'm not really a fan they were entertaining and their hair was cool.
After The Casualties we headed back to the main stage for Dropkick Murphys, and man, it was insane. The band was awesome, they totally ripped. During Buried Alive, one of my favorite DKM tunes, Al Barr, the singer, and I made eye contact for like 6 seconds while we shouted the lyrics at each other. It was magical. The pit was absolutely crazy, though, and was filled with a bunch of drunk, middle aged, overweight bald dudes with goatees who felt that it was their personal duty to piss off everybody around them. I'm not generally a violent person, but I came close to fighting one of them several times. Towards the end of the set a guy next to me boosted me up and I crowd surfed away from the drunk dudes. They took me up to the stage and for a second I was 3 feet away from Ken Casey, the bass player. I thought about jumping up there, but I didn't feel like tangling with security.
During Dropkick Murphys I got separated from Skyler and the Michaels, so I pushed my way back to the stage for Alkaline Trio. They totally rocked, too, and they crowd wasn't a bunch of morons like DKM's was. After their set I found the kids and they all wanted to go home, so I didn't get to see Pennywise or Every Time I Die. Oh well, it was still a blast.
10 days 'till I leave.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Running
This week hasn't been very eventful, but I did start running again. I ran occasionally with my friend Xiao when I was at school, and he always kicked my butt, so I figured I should start running again if I wanted to keep up.
I got in 8 miles this week, including 3 miles yesterday. I've always been susceptible to shin splints, so I'm only going to run every other day, but I figure that's enough. I don't want to run a marathon or anything. Yesterday was my first time running 3 miles nonstop since April, and it was way hard. I wanted to quit when I was less than halfway done, but I powered through, because I'm incredibly awesome like that. I finished under 24 minutes, too (barely), which was my goal. That's not super fast, but I wasn't feeling great and I haven't been running in months so I think that's aight. When I ran a 5k in 9th grade I don't think my time was under 30, so I guess I'm faster than I used to be.
Anyways, things are pretty slow here, and there's not much else to tell. I finally got my financial aid package today, after three or four days of freaking the hell out because I only got one scholarship, but it turns out Tulane gave me more money this year than they did last year, so I get to stay at Tulane and don't have to be $30,000 in debt before my 20th birthday. Life is good.
17 days until I leave fer Nawlins!
I got in 8 miles this week, including 3 miles yesterday. I've always been susceptible to shin splints, so I'm only going to run every other day, but I figure that's enough. I don't want to run a marathon or anything. Yesterday was my first time running 3 miles nonstop since April, and it was way hard. I wanted to quit when I was less than halfway done, but I powered through, because I'm incredibly awesome like that. I finished under 24 minutes, too (barely), which was my goal. That's not super fast, but I wasn't feeling great and I haven't been running in months so I think that's aight. When I ran a 5k in 9th grade I don't think my time was under 30, so I guess I'm faster than I used to be.
Anyways, things are pretty slow here, and there's not much else to tell. I finally got my financial aid package today, after three or four days of freaking the hell out because I only got one scholarship, but it turns out Tulane gave me more money this year than they did last year, so I get to stay at Tulane and don't have to be $30,000 in debt before my 20th birthday. Life is good.
17 days until I leave fer Nawlins!
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