so i went to the show, and ryan had a meltdown. or as marika said “he had a diva night”. but it was awesome! i’m glad i ended up having to go by myself, because on my drive home i thought of all the people that might have gone with me, and just about all of them would have been all mad that ryan walked off the stage early because of the crowd noise. i loved it. the music was awesome, the bassist was hot, and we got a really cool story about recording ‘love is hell‘ in new orleans. i’m going to work on a review tomorrow at work, maybe to combat some media reviews maybe bashing the show for what happened. anyway, i’m excited to go see him again when i get the chance. too bad i can’t drive up to birmingham on sunday to go. maybe i’ll finally go to NYC to visit christina and see him if he plays NY anytime soon. i kick myself when i think i could have gone to see him last october. never again! anyway, to clarify, he played over 2 hours, so its not like we were cheated out of a whole lot. just the song lotto, of which i had put in for ‘nuclear‘ and ‘english girls approximately‘. i talked to the official band video archiver outside in line before the show. apparently he films every show….so maybe a dvd is in the works? he said whatever the band wanted to do with the video they could do, dvd or not. cool. the show definitely cemented ryan as a non negotiable.

i’ve been thinking a lot about dating claire…not sure how much longer that’s going to last. i’ll just leave it at that for now.

my two weeks straight of work is almost up. i’m looking forward to the weekend and not having to be somewhere or do something. i plan on cutting the grass. i might go up to jackson to see derek webb. might have to make a couple of calls about that. dw’s not in that ‘go by myself’ echelon nor the ‘drive 3 hours without meeting a bunch of people’ either. so we’ll see if i actually go. i’ve felt like i’ve been living in my car the past two weeks with all the driving, and that may play a role.