✿ A Very Musical Weekend ✿

What an interesting past two-three days...

Thursday was so busy, but the end of the day was great. I went to a concert for a campus group, it was a 70s night, and all the players were really great. There's a couple of guitar players who just shred like fucking beasts. Then watched Fall Out Boy on the tonight show, then So Much (For) Stardust released!

Friday isn't technically the weekend but I don't have classes so it's a little more relaxed. It was my first full day with So Much (For) Stardust, the new Fall Out Boy album, and I could not stop talking about it. I went to a talk hosted by one of my professors and on the way there, I listened to it. The talk went very well, it was about graduate school and tips on that. My dad really wants me to get a PhD but every professor and professional I've talked to suggest I get 1-2 masters degrees, that a PhD would be time-consuming and limit the work I can do. There was pizza at the talk, and my professor let me take a full box home because there were several left over.

Afterwards, I went to the psychology lab I work in, and finished the stuff I needed to do for this week. It's a lab studying how married partners communicate with one another, so it followed them for a few days and took audio recordings throughout those days, meaning now my work is just a bunch of sitting at a computer, listening to the audio, and coding them for easier analysis. Then I just went to my apartment, me and my roommate gushed over SM(F)S, and then we just lazed around a while.

Yesterday, Saturday, I had gotten free tickets to see Colony House, but that was at like 7:30pm so I was being real lazy in the morning. That was until my friend I was going to the concert with called at like 11:30am, saying we needed to coordinate our outfits and go out and hit the town beforehand. So I showered, they came over and helped me choose an outfit (I'm kind of stylistically challenged, they've been kind of my guide to fashion recently), then we went over to their place and they took approximately triple the time picking their own outfit. Trying things on, trying different things on, rummaging around in their large amount of clothes, accessorizing. Each fit looked fine to me but they're the expert.

We then decided to go hit the gay district of town; like it's dedicatedly queer. There's a thrift store that donates to AIDS charities, there's a dozen gay bars, all the businesses are queer-friendly. There's a queer barber shop that gives you free beer with service. There's a retro burger place called "Hunky's" (which I've only been to once but am permanently in love with). After hitting the thrift store, I looked at my phone to see what direction we should go to hit the places we hadn't yet gone to, and saw a notification from Ticketmaster, saying my dad had transferred two tickets to Fall Out Boy to me, and stopped dead in my tracks. Apparently I terrified my friend, who was like "Is everything okay? What happened? Something good?" and then, because I am a predictable creature, they asked "Did you win Fall Out Boy tickets or something?"

To celebrate (and also just because my friend had seen a sign for this place and wanted to go), we went to a fancy chocolate shop. I got four little chocolate truffles, one dark chocolate ganache, one peanut butter and jelly flavored, one butter toffee flavored, and one earl gray flavored. The earl gray one was insane, I felt like Remy from Ratatoullie when he ate the fruit and cheese at the same time. I also got a latte to cleanse my palette after each one because I know that's the fancy way to eat things.

On the way back to my car before the concert, we stopped by World Market, where I got some Japanese curry mix, and my friend got a can of wine and a pickle in a bag. Then we figured we should eat some real food before the concert, and stopped at a retro diner (not Hunky's, a different retro diner. I think there's like, 3 or more in this area alone). The food was pretty good! I got huevos rancheros, which was served with their homestyle potatoes that were really well-made. They also had several good vegetarian options, which my friend really appreciated, being vegetarian themselves. Then we went to the concert, which parking for was a nightmare, but survivable. The opening band was really good, and so was Colony House, though the crowd was a little selfish. Several times if there was even just 3 inches of space somewhere, a 6'2 white man would jam himself in, directly in front of someone several inches shorter than him. For a while I was standing next to a girl who repeatedly flipped her hair directly into my face. During the performance, the crowd then seemingly decompressed, pushing everyone back, which wouldn't have been as much of a problem if they weren't pressing everyone into the sound booth barrier. Like I was right in front of a couple guys, who were pressed up against the barrier between the crowd and the sound booth, and I kept getting shoved back by the girl in front of me until I genuinely could not move back anymore. I felt bad for the guys behind me, I was really trying to preserve them some space, but my heel was pressed against the tip of their shoes, and their heels were on the barrier. There was nowhere for any of us to go, but the people in front of me kept moving backward! Close to the end I just decided to get out and watch from further back, and honestly I could probably see better from a distance. After that we just went back (my friend hadn't heard SM(F)S yet so we listened to that on the way back), I had some of my leftover pizza, and went to bed.

Today is just for lazing around. I have an assignment due tomorrow I should work on at some point, but really it should only be like ~1-2 hours of work, so I'm going to just... do that later... yawnnn...