They Can't All Be Winners

Yo! It seems like my internet is behaving tonight, so I should hopefully have some sort of stellar entry for all of you tonight. How was everybody's day? Mie was pretty good. I didn't really do all that much of anything, though. I guess it was just a lazy day for me. Not that I really have much to do on most days, but that's all going to change soon. Yes, I'm going to be a working man by this time next week. I don't have the official schedule yet, but I know I'm supposed to start next week. Before then, I'm going to need to go out and stock up on polo shirts. Apparently, I have to wear a polo or button-down shirt for this job. And wouldn't you know it, all of my polo shirts are too big and stretched out. But I guess this is what I get for having worn clothes too big for me for so much of my life. I'm a pretty slim person, I'd say. And I haven't changed very much in size over the years, but I still have a drawer of XL t-shirts that I never wear. And to think a medium is too big for my liking these days. Well, anyway, I need to get some polo shirts, and I'd also like to get myself a haircut soon. The first anniversary of me cutting a ton of hair off my head is coming up in under a month! I'll have to look sharp for it.

Over two years ago I went to a show at the UCONN campus. This particular show was Dropkick Murphys and Big D and the Kids Table. If this show had happened today, I probably wouldn't have had the least bit of interest in seeing it, but I was pretty psyched at the time. I went up to UCONN with my friend Anthony (a different Anthony than the one I normally talk about) and an acquaintance Christian (again, not the Christian I normally talk about). I remember it being a particularly cold day. I think this all happened in February. Not positive, though. But we drove up there, and were planning on making a day of it. So we had a few hours to kill before we even began thinking about shows. I think the first thing we did was stop by my friend TJ's dorm, because I believe he picked up a ticket for me. So I grabbed my ticket from him, and caught up a bit before I got back in the car with Anthony and Christian. I also believe I took a poster for the show off one of the walls in the dorm. I'm pretty sly like that. Then the three of us went to go eat at a dining hall on campus. This Christian acquaintance of mine attends the University, so he just swiped us all in. But I remember this place being very big. It had an enormous selection compared to what I was used to at WestConn. And that being the case, I filled my tray up with several plates, each featuring a very eclectic array of foods. But that's always been my college dining hall experience. I would always fill my plate(s) with the offerings that looked like they'd make me throw up the least. And that would often result in a diversified meal. But while my tray was quite stacked, I could not, and have never been able to compete with what Anthony had on his plate. Anthony will eat most anything, and a whole lot of it. Thus, my tray looked meager in comparison. But such is life. After we ate, I don't really remember what we did. The next thing I remember is being in the dorm room of some female friends of Christian. This is when Christian and them started pregaming. They were doing shots of vodka, and acting like college kids. It was very obvious these girls did not go to shows too often. And if the Dropkick Murphys hadn't had a song featured in the movie The Departed, I'm sure they wouldn't have thought twice about going to the concert. But then again, neither would any of the people that I went with. Listen to me. I'm coming off like some sort of elitist for the Dropkick Murphys, a band I couldn't give two shits about anymore. Hell, I found out about them, because they were on the soundtrack to some Motocross video game. I'm not cool, either. But still, it was pretty lame that these girls were making t-shirts for the show that had the name of a song that they downloaded off of Limewire that was incorrectly tagged as the Dropkick Murphys on them. I honestly have no idea what song it was, and who it was by. But I do believe this is when we started making our way to the show. And all I remember was that it was a very long and cold walk. But we eventually made it, and we were ready to have our faces rocked, or whatever. This was a little before Big D put out Strictly Rude, so they played their set of Strictly Rude songs + LAX. I hadn't seen Big D in awhile, so I was just psyched to see them play. Then the Dropkick Murphys played and all the drunk college kids got psyched when they played the song from the movie.

Wow... I am totally not feeling this entry at all, guys. I'm sorry about this one. Especially after I promised you a really good one tonight. I'll try and make it up to you somehow. I need to get back on the horse or else I'll lose my loyal fan base. And that would be the biggest tragedy of all. Tomorrow I'm going to buckle down and try my best to give you one hell of a blog entry. Whatever homework I may have be damned! You guys deserve better from me, and god dammit, I am going to give you better! But as for today, you'll just have to suffer through a boring story about a concert nobody would care about these days. Believe me, it was fun while I was there, but it clearly doesn't translate well into a blog entry. The only other time I went to UCONN for a concert was to see Immortal Technique. It was outside, freezing cold, Immortal Technique showed up late, there were tons of technical problems, and my friend Jenn and I bailed before things got even more miserable. Leave comments about what you'd like to see my comeback entry to be about. This guy's takin' suggestions!