well...friday night rocked our faces off. the pit was brutal, but we survived the pushing and elbowing and spilt beer and smoke... it was so worth the black eye i almost got and the one i really wanted to give. we were literally 2 people away from the stage. it was an absolutely amazing show. however, standing for 5 1/2 hours is never good. my knees and feet protested...but they did not give up. after this experience, i can say that coldplay is a fantastic live band. i love their recorded stuff...but they are unbelievable live. it was awesome. also partaking for the show was kelly clarkson and a member of the david crowder band. quite exciting. plus, the opening band, rilo kiley, was really pretty good. much better than the killers opening act. one of my favorite moments came during coldplay's acoustic set...which incidently happened to take place DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF US...when they did an ode to the greatness that is johnny cash and played "ring of fire." it was simply brillant. they played all my favorite songs and were highly entertaining. it was awesome. it could have only been better if the mormon kid next to me would have stopped touching me every five seconds and the drunk guy behind me had not been there...and if they both would have let coldplay sing the songs instead of shouting them in my ear off key. well...if that had happened, i suppose it wouldn't have been near the experience that it was.

coldplay commences at 7 pm tonight. misty and i will be taking in the show from the pit area...right smack dab in front of the stage. i anticipate mild hearing loss and sore feet...but some really good pictures.

curse you, hurricane rita, and the inevitable rise you will cause in gas prices and for the way that will hurt my finances. curse you, oil companies, for capitalizing off a natural disaster by price gouging. there is no reason for oil companies to post $10 billion in profits AFTER a hurricane. you jerks. you should be ashamed of yourself and your greedy lack of compassion for the people who buy your product. honestly...have a conscience and show some mercy.

anyone need tickets to the tech vs. kansas game on oct 1st?

"It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day."

so the sermon sunday came complete with a barber shop quartet singing such classics as "the wind beneath my wings" and "what's love got to do with it". seriously...i almost fell out of my chair laughing. it was hilarious. emily...you really missed a good one.

there was something else i was going to post about, but i cannot remember what it is.

the year's most highly anticipated event is a mere ten days away. yes...10 days. and you guessed it...it's the coldplay concert i bought tickets for like 6 months ago. that's alot of waiting. and our seats are way close to the stage...so i'll probably lose some more hearing, but man...it will so be worth it. here's to concert induced hearing loss!

and randomly...a gecko seems to be stuck inside the cover of my office light. i just saw it run across...weird.

the yearly review is over...and i survived. thank you, Jesus.

on a completely unrelated note...
sbc completely ticked me off prompting me to immediately cancel my home phone service. those jerks. they need a lesson in the customer is always right and a course in service with a smile. i swear. they mistreat and over charge their customers...and i've had enough. death to sbc.

it's time for my dreaded yearly evaluation. so i'm trying to fill out my self-evaluation which will be compared with my 2 supervisors' evaluation of me...yuck. for one, i absolutely loathe these things. i have having to rate myself for other people to look at because i'm afraid that when my bosses look at this they'll wonder what i was smoking when i filled it out...like i'll rate myself way better than they did. on the flipside, i could rate myself worse than they did and look like i'm overly judgmental and a possible head case. plus, factor in my last experience with yearly evaluations at work. i was working full-time for a church while in graduate school. my yearly evaluation rolled around. i filled out my self-evaluation, and when my boss called me into her office for what i thought was an evaluation, i was informed that the church would no longer allow me to adjust my hours in order to attend classes, and i had to pick between finishing my masters and working there. needless to say, it really threw me for a loop...thus increasing my pre-exisiting anxiety about evalutaions by an astronomical percentage. no matter how certain i am that my experience won't be repeated when we go over my eval tomorrow, there's still a thought that it might lodged in the back of my mind.

i loathe you, yearly evaluation. please be more merciful that you were before.