fun

I have been, pleasantly, too busy to write recently. Work picked up a bit at the end of last week, and Friday was crazy because I had to leave early.

Sarah, Kirsten and I went to Philly on Friday to see The Fray at the Electric Factory. Sarah was very jazzed about it all, but I was more enthusiastic about the chance to see Philly again than I was about seeing the The Fray (although, The Fray is very cool). So, needless to say I was very mellow when the opening act, a group I had never heard of called The Feeling, came out. But oh how that attitude changed very quickly. In short, The Feeling are awesome. They are a band from the UK who don’t actually have a cd out here yet, but they will in March. That night they did what all good bands do, they came out onstage and performed for an audience (me) who had never heard of them before and by the end of the set they had fans (me) who were really excited about them and their music who ran to their booth to pick up their cd. I am so excited about this group, that in a lapse of self control I bought their full length cd from HMV in the UK and am having it shipped here. I mean, do they honestly expect me to wait until March to hear it? Its worth the extra $5 to buy the British version, and it makes me happy.

Anyway, another thought that I have been having lately is just how random it is for me to feel like I am in a fun moment in my life right now. I have always been really serious about life, perhaps too serious. But in Baltimore I seem to be surrounded by people who are much more chill than me, and I am adjusting. Its not that I am shirking responsibilities, its just that for whatever reason I am enjoying being young…running off to Philly for the weekend, watching football at friends homes, just hanging out, reading books, seeing films, going out. In some ways, I feel like for this moment in time some of the weight I have been carrying around (for whatever reason, who really knows why I felt weighed down) has been lifted and I feel like I can fun. I feel like my life is full and fun, not empty, boring and useless.

Maybe I’ve just been in a crabby mood and I’m just getting out of it now…the last few months have been a bit intense.