I’m going to be honest: I had only run once since the half-marathon. I can feel it in my legs…and moreso, I can feel it in my waist-line. I can give you a thousand excuses why I hadn’t made an effort to get out before the sun, but this week I couldn’t take it anymore. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘music’
27 September 2007
They’d never spent a night apart
For 60 years she heard him snore
Now they’re in a hospital
In seperate beds on different floors
Claire soon lost her memory, forgot the names of family
She never spoke a word again
Then one day they wheeled him in
He held her hand and stroked her hair
In a fragile voice she said
Where have [...]
24 September 2007
Top Five Concerts of All Time, no. 1
Dave had discovered that Death Cab for Cutie was coming to a venue in Brussels, which was only about a 30 minute train-ride from our door. He suggested the grand idea of taking me for my birthday. Everyone sat around on this thought for a while until about 1 week and a half [...]
21 September 2007
Top Five Concerts of All Time, no. 2
I must have been all of eight. It was my first concert. Ever. Aunt Maggie took my mom and I to see Kathy Mattea. I was a fan because my mom loved her so–still does, although I don’t know that we’ve bought an album in years. Or if she’s even still producing. More than anything, [...]
4 September 2007
Top Five Concerts of All Time, no. 3
I loved the proximity of my dorm to the quad. I loved the proximity of my dorm to Death Cab for Cutie, who was playing at Follinger Auditorium, literally only a few hundred yards from my door.
I attended the concert with my friend Chris, who often acts (without his own knowledge) as my own personal [...]
21 August 2007
Top Five Concerts of All Time, no. 4
We all knew it was a bad idea. But somehow that didn’t stop us.
I’d gotten an email about a pre-sale for Barenaked Ladies tickets that I promptly forwarded to my mom–as we deeply shared in the love of BNL. The concert was in Milwaukee (acutally pronounced Mil-he-wah-kay) on a Tuesday night. I was in Champaign. [...]
19 August 2007
Top Five Concerts of All Time, no. 5
I lived in New York. Ben Folds was coming to Brooklyn. None of my friends wanted to shell out the money for the ticket, but I would not let solitude keep me from seeing the Ben-Rufus show.
I went by myself. And it was one of the greatest decisions I have ever made. [...]
17 June 2007
You ought to give Iowa a try
Sandy and I had a successfully unsuccessful day looking for apartments in the city. We didn’t find “the one” but we learned a lot about what it means to look for in a place, as well as the area. We also learned a lot about the needs of each other. I think [...]
