Bringing the Drama

do you ever have one of those naps that just substitutes for your normal sleep? i got home from work today, and i had a headache, so i laid down and next thing i know its 3 am. so i totally missed thursday night. i’m sure i have a couple of angry text messages and maybe a voice mail. and the thing was, i was dreaming about being at the lake (where we usually go) and i was telling someone about how great thursdays were.

i’m glad to be back from huntsville….today at work was pretty good. boring, but it was nice not having to field phone calls from people looking to screw something up. met my friend megan’s new baby today. that was the first time i’ve held someone younger than 6 months and they didn’t throw up on me, so that was nice. (there was only that one time about 6 months ago) then when she started crying, i just handed her back to megan. but for a few minutes there it was fun to hold her and watch her try to talk to me about how funny i was. it was great to eat lunch with friends i hadn’t seen for a month though, much better than going to subway by myself.

i bought this cover album of dctalk’s “Jesus freak” yesterday and its really good. i remember not liking christian music, at all. i remember my sister getting back from a mission trip in ‘94 and she had bought a copy of steven curtis chapman’s ‘heaven in the real world’ and i said “you could have bought any cd and you bought this?” then i went on this youth group trip in 1997 to DC and my friend chad had a copy of “Jesus freak” and he told me to listen to it. i thought “come on, its that christian music, its probably more stupid pop trying to be cool”, but it wasn’t. the whole weekend seeing bands like jars, newsboys, geoff moore and the distance changed my opinion of christian music. anyway, getting a cover version of “Jesus freak” was cool cause not only is the music good (including the FF5 version of ‘mind’s eye’) but it makes me think back to that DC trip. good times.

so two weeks ago i went to huntsville for work. initially, i was to go for one week. one week turned into two, and i entered into a trial by fire on how to deal with difficult people at the workplace. it was not the easy week i was thinking, it ended up being pretty frustrating to say the least. things are good now, but it sure took a lot to get to that point. and today i’m having to go back AGAIN, but this time i know its only going to be a few days, so i’ll be back wednesday or thursday.

last weekend, i went up to nashville to do some laundry and just get out of huntsville. i went with my friend trey to his church on sunday, and listened to his pastor spin completely unrelated stories during his sermon with his wife yelling out corrections from the audience. i came out of service jealous that the pastors at my church are nothing like that. “i got on a plane one time with 28 people. the next thing i know, i was in cairo….” you can’t make that stuff up.

i was able to come home thursday so jacob and i could go see nickel creek in mobile. the show was great, and the only regret i have is that i did not offer sara watkins my number. we had talked about how i would do it, after the show by the tour bus where she’d be signing autographs, etc. after the show, we went and drank a newcastle, then went to find the tour bus. we found it, with sara outside of it talking to fans who were asking stupid questions. jacob asked her for a picture, and i had the perfect opportunity at that point, but i blew it. it was a mixture of thinking her friend mandy (the merch girl) was cute, and wanting to talk to her again, and thinking “am i ready to quit my job and become a touring member of the band’s posse?” so i said something lame, and am still trying to deal with the fact that i let an opportunity like that slip away.

so anyway, that was my whirlwind two weeks. i’m going to be gone today for a few more days, but i’ll be thankful to get back.