Travel

Sorry it's been like 10 years since I posted last... I've been tossing photos up on my picasa web album rather than this here blog. I need to figure out a balance between the two, obviously. Ah balance...

Anyway, there is a reason for this post.

I am finally going to a music festival (my schedule can be found here). I bought my ticket to ACL a while back and booked my flight to Austin this morning! Wahoooooooooo! This is definitely countdown worthy!

Now, this whole travel bit has got me thinking (well... dreaming) about Portland. This week I got an email from Southwest announcing $79 flights to Portland from Denver. This pretty much sounds like it was created for me :) I have my plan all set up. Want to hear it?

October 13th - Drive to Denver in the am and see Tegan and Sara in the pm. Stay the night.
October 14th - Fly to Portland
October 18th - Fly to Denver and drive home (if I feel like it)

... the only problem with this trip is school, I have class M-Th... hell, I'll rearrange my schedule. The only *real* problem with this trip is I may get "lost" at any point and refuse to come home.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Summer Reading

Productive procrastination at it's best...

Here's the start of my summer reading list (I used Amazon's wish list to create it because that was the best I could come up with).





Please let me know what else NEEDS to be on it.

3/4 of the way

About a month old...
Added it on April 8th...

Give me sympathy

SERIOUSLY worth your time!

Get on it!

New Metric fresh out of Coachella
http://www.spin.com/videos/coachella-08-metric-give-me-sympathy

Hump-Day Happiness

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Released: January 22, 2008

1. Time to Pretend

2. Weekend Wars

3. The Youth
4. Electric Feel

5. Kids

6. 4th Dimensional Transition

7. Pieces of What

8. Of Moons, Birds & Monsters

9. The Handshake

10. Future Reflections

Looking for something to do....

... on Wednesday night?

I have 2 great options for ya:
orIf only I could go to both....

Updates...

Things are hectic and I'm ignoring it - bad move, I'm sure. I have a paper 'due' to my mentor at work on Friday... I feel as if I'm unqualified to write it, just because I barely have a toe in the water that is the subject of Computational Models in Social Sciences. It's interesting though, I'm learning (what a concept!). My old organization at work asked me to come back to help out with a Fest that will be at the end of May. I'm meeting with them next week to see if it will work, but I have my doubts because the semester is wrapping up and Death Cab for Cutie is playing in Denver the day of the start of the fest (which coincidently is my 6th anniversary at Sandia - I should NOT spend it working). We'll see what happens though, I wouldn't mind working with them again. I dropped Alcoholism, the class, from my life... I figured the best way to learn about the psychology of alcoholism would really be to pick up the bottle, so I bought a case of my favorite beer. Kidding, but I really did drop alcoholism. All joking aside, I feel like it was part slacker but well thought through and I am happy with this decision. By dropping the class I will be able to keep my job through March (instead of August) and take a couple of classes in the fall. Productive procrastination, of sorts. So now, I only have 2 actual classes (out of 4), Deaf Culture and Positive Psychology. I have my independent study that doesn't consist of 'class' and cross-cultural psych that I've decided to not go to... not that I ever really went (I think I've been to a total of 2 classes (that's 4 half classes) haha)... I found out today I got a 100% on the midterm... soooo I'm done thinking about going. I'm diggin' it.

Hump-day Happiness

...let's see how long I can keep this going :)

Mirah - You think it's like this but really it's like this
Reminds me of: Liz Phair

Released: June 6, 2000

1. Million Miles
2. Sweepstakes Prize
3. Of Pressure
4. This Dance
5. La Familia
6. Gone Sugaring
7. Person Person
8. Engine Heart
9. Archipelago
10. 100 Knives
11. Murphy Bed
12. Pollen
13. Small Town
14. Water and Sleep
15. Telephone Wires
16. Words Cannot Describe

*Faves in bold.

ACL

Another great lineup...

Tegan and Sara
Neko Case
Stars
Beck
Against Me
Patty Griffin
Iron and Wine
Jenny Lewis
Mates of State

$170 + trip to Austin. Who's in?

Talk about delayed

Switchfoot in the summer of '03