looking ahead

I know school starts a month from now, but i’m already ready for it. Maybe its because our apartment rent starts on Aug 1st (3 days from now) and I’ve already been talking to my roomates about furniture utilities rent and the like. Jeremy will be living there starting the 1st [lukcy bastard], but I need to wait until i can make more money at home before moving up to austin. Part of it is that all my friends here in San Antonio seem to be working or unavailable or whatever… and combined with the fact that i haven’t really talked to any of them since last summer, i feel like i don’t really know anyone here anymore. I belong in Austin now. what worries me is graduation. Where do i belong then?

OzzFest

I left work at 3:30 cause i didn’t want to be there anymore and i had the tickets in my hand, plus Ozzfest is on the other side of San Antonio, and I didn’t want to get stuck in rush hour traffic. So I made it there at 5 (grabbed food on the way) and settled in for a good concert- except that they don’t let you bring blankets to sit on the grass with, so i had to check it in at the will call. Things started out a little slow, I don’t remember the band playing when i got in, but it was not too impressive, and they were tiny from our seats in the sun. Soon afterwards Lacuna Coil came on and it was good enough I decided to try the mosh pit. The last one i was in was at a Dream Theater concert and it was awesome. This one was good… but there were a few jerks who were throwing punches from the outskirts of the ring. A quick commentary on mosh pits: They are the most confusing display of physical agression paired with caring about people you’ve never met. If you fall everyone protects you and picks you up. Thats what I love about it. But… in the fray my prized sun glasses from 1 year ago broke :-(. That might have been the most memorable part of the night.

Next Disturbed and System of a Down played, they were cool, but i just didn’t get into it. I was tired and it was getting late by then, and I think my tastes in music have drifted away from metal. Not that it wasn’t a good time, but I think i’ll stick with the smaller more intamate concerts from now on.

mmm beeeer

so now I’m 21. My birthday (the 3rd) was on a monday, and the following day was the 4th so it was a holiday for everyone, meaning I had a perfect set up for a party. People leave after work on monday, party monday night, and go home after sleeping in on tuesday. So I invited the whole crowd, and most of them made it. Mike even drove all the way down from Decatur (TX) way up north. The best part of the night was in no way the alcohol. Sure that made it fun, loosened us up and all that, but the best part was the friends. We had a blast talking and making jokes around the bonfire, cutting down dead trees with the axe, shooting fireworks at each other. We spent almost the whole night outside, and alex nearly killed us with an ‘artillery shell’ that he dropped in the middle of our seats. The blast sprayed pretty blue fire 10 feet in all directions, but we scattered fast enough that no one got hurt. The pully on my treehouse was also a big hit, and jeremy thought he could lift himself up by putting his foot in one loop and pulling on the other, but the effect was more like catching an animal in a trap, and he quickly was flipped upside down with his foot in the air. Everyone laughed at him, and elissa decided to prove he was an idiot by doing it the right way, but she failed equally spectacularly. The entire night was filled with laughs, and i think the group picture captures it perfectly. The next morning no one was too hung over, we were mostly just tired, so we napped and watched the shuttle launch and napped and watched the world cup until everyone had gone home. It was the best 4th of july ever