Whee!!

So things here have settled a bit, I know that makes no sense as I haven't rambled about things being unsettled, but tough.

Free concert tonight, pre-Coachella thingy on Friday, Coachella Saturday and Sunday, two eagerly anticipated CDs arriving soon (that I barely paid anything for), two friends flying in for the show...this is what qualifies for a good week.

Easter was non-existent for me, no big surprise there, but who cares at this point. It's hard to get hung up on these things because I distance myself from them by necessity.

Blanking on everything else. Huge posts next week per the normal post-Coachella wrap-up.

To get you in the spirit...

Irony at it's worst.

So today I finally started therapy for my knees, something I have been trying to do for awhile. Not long after I moved to CA the pain got worse and worse, before I would get a twitch here and there but nothing serious. Since I moved there have been nights where I didn't sleep at all because of the pain. Due to no insurance, changing insurance and millions of other things it has taken awhile for me to get to this point. I've held off rejoining a soccer team because I felt I should make sure my knees get better before I make them worse. So I start therapy and I finally find out why my knees have gotten so much worse.

It's because I stopped playing soccer.

Yes, I stopped playing soccer because I wanted to get my knees taken care of and because it took so long they got worse, because I wanted them to get better.

I'm not going get into technical descriptions, but yes, that is it.

End of an Era

The Mo' Better Meaty Meat Burgers building demolition began today.

A moment of silence, please.







Thank you.

DC

Short version:
DC is awesome.

Long version:
Aside from the stupid plane problems on both ends of the trip, DC was great, I should've stayed a few extra days because I think I did half of everything I wanted to do. There are far too many museums, monuments and galleries to check out in the span of three full days. Walking around everywhere is great, but blisters are not. I loved the contrast between some of the monuments, comparing something like the FDR monument to the Jefferson monument shows such a contrast, both in how we have evolved as a society in that we percieve and memorialize people in such contrastly different ways now. Frankly I actually like the FDR memorial more than most. The Holocaust Museum was one of the heaviest things I have ever seen or been too, extremely depressing and humbling to see how negligent our country was during that time.

On a happier note, 'Thank You For Smoking' is awesome, seeing it in DC with a friend who works on the Hill (and I worked with entertainment people) makes it incredibly awesome.

Restraunts that serve S'mores as dessert, and bring a live flame to your table for this, are also awesome. As are bars that have a beer-listing that is longer than some Harvard dissertations.

All in all I could keep rambling, I loved DC and will have to go back there at some point. If I stay in non-profit work, who knows, I could move there...