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rebecca told me today that i had not posted in a long time. yes, that's right. i've had other things going on, and i just haven't gotten here in a while.
but my night tonight was awesome, and even though most of my day was crappy (due to some MAJOR feminine problems, ones i will NOT enumerate upon for the large male audience of this crowd)
WTWFCA21: ohhh we had a wonderful night.
fairfaxmafia2: word?
WTWFCA21: we went to a concert at hte barns of wolf trap
WTWFCA21: one we go to every year
WTWFCA21: and one that i'm really going to miss
WTWFCA21: it's this folksinger guy who's very historically oriented and tells great historical stories, and very politically ...in tune...shall we say, with the parties that this household supports.
WTWFCA21: and it's very fun, and he plays the hammered dulcimer better than anyone i've ever seen
WTWFCA21: so he fascinates me.
WTWFCA21: and there are songs that i have grown to love in the past five or six years of our going to these concerts, but in particular one that i really love.
WTWFCA21: and he didn't play it during the first half, so i was all bummed out, but during intermission, if there's a request you have to make, then you write it down and put it on the stage.
WTWFCA21: okay.
WTWFCA21: so there's this song called "The Room at the Top of the Stair."
WTWFCA21: and it was for his son
WTWFCA21: and it goes "there's a room in our house at hte top of the stair... bla bla bla..." and goes on and each verse is about different stages in his son's life, and how he gets brought home from the hospital, and then goes through life yadda yadda
WTWFCA21: and then the last verse is about the room being empty
WTWFCA21: because he has gone to college.
WTWFCA21: and it's sad and always makes me happy-sad. and so, tonight, i went, hoping that he would play it, especially for me.
WTWFCA21: and so, when the intermission came, i tore off a piece of paper and wrote "I've been coming to these concerts for at least six years now, and it'll probably be my last one as I am going off to college next year. And then it will be MY room at the top of the stairs that is empty. So could you please play Room at the Top of the Stair one last time for me.
WTWFCA21: he plays loads of instruments, mind you. and "Room" is piano song. so he comes out holding JILLIONS of requests, and i'm like hm. well at least he read them, and maybe he will have read mine and will sing my song. so he plays a few little guitar diddys, and then pulls out one of the requests from the box.
WTWFCA21: and he goes "i'd like to read this one out loud, and i hope I dont embarass who ever wrote it."
WTWFCA21: and then he sits down at the piano.
WTWFCA21: andi was like yesssssssssssss
WTWFCA21: and so he read it, and it was really really sweet, and i cried like a little baby, and i was there with my family, and it was really great.
fairfaxmafia2: awwwww
WTWFCA21: and then, i proceeded to cry for most of the rest of the concert, because he did all his great sad songs, and it was just wonderful.
WTWFCA21: so yeah. it was really a great concert.
WTWFCA21: and afterwards he always lines up to talk to people.
WTWFCA21: so my dad was like do you want to stay? because at that point it was like 10:45.
WTWFCA21: and so i was like uh hello? yes of course.
WTWFCA21: so we go down, and my mom's talking to him about all their little dulcimer friends, and then tells him that i'm the little poor college girl, and he gave me this big hug and was like so where are you going to school?
WTWFCA21: and i told him, and he was like well i play at another college very frequently, that's right near there, about 15 or 20 minutes from the big city that's about 20 minutes from my college.
WTWFCA21: so i was like GREAT!! and he was like well i look forward to seeing you there. and i was like no no. i look forward to seeing YOU there.
WTWFCA21: haha
WTWFCA21: so yeah. it was really great. and afterward, my mom was like "it is absolutely unfair that you got to hug him."
WTWFCA21: ahaha
fairfaxmafia2: hahaha
fairfaxmafia2: seriously, that sounds like the scene out of a movie or something haha
fairfaxmafia2: it's so perfect
WTWFCA21: i know.
WTWFCA21: it was awesome.
WTWFCA21: like incredible.
that was what i started to write on thursday night, but fell asleep before finishing, and so never did.
summations from my weekend:
1. I love my college. I went to a dinner function for ONU, and long long long story short, I ate dinner with the president of ONU and his wife and had an awesome time, and he knows me and my family etc., and it's exciting.
2. I miss Tyler, and it is still really really sad to me when people talk about it, and I really hate people who think that they are so much better, like the Hamlet complex where they feel like "oh if you only KNEW what i was going through, you wouldn't cry yourself..." because i think that everyone's feelings on whatever scale they are, their feelings are valid too. hmm that was a bit of a soap box that i think i'll step off of now.
3. I just finished watching Pride and Prejudice, and it's renewed my major major pining for boys. and i'm starting to do stupid things so that i can be with someone and it's dumb dumb dumb but im feeling verry needy.
also, matt esherick is a pretty awesome guy.
WTWFCA21: what are you up to?
Mesherick13: waiting for the answer to arrive
Mesherick13: it's been long enough
WTWFCA21: i see. and what is the answer that is soon arriving?
[Mesherick13: i don't know yet
WTWFCA21: oh good. well when you know, let me know. haha.
Mesherick13: i'll know when i know the question
WTWFCA21: what is the question?
Mesherick13: when i know i'll let you know
Mesherick13: that'll make it easier to find the answer
WTWFCA21: oh good. since i am the knower of almost all things, i might know the answer.
WTWFCA21: and that will be splendid for us all.
Mesherick13: good good
Mesherick13: well go forth, and accomplish great things
Mesherick13: whilst i remain bogged down in a state of ignorance
WTWFCA21: ha. i will mosey forth and accomplish mediocre things, while you will sprint forth with a rejuvinated passion and accomplish monumental things.
Mesherick13: your confidence gives me confidence
WTWFCA21: well good. and your confidence gives ME confidence.
WTWFCA21: therefore we are a good team.
Mesherick13: we must never lose confidence in anything
Mesherick13: lest we fall into misery
but my night tonight was awesome, and even though most of my day was crappy (due to some MAJOR feminine problems, ones i will NOT enumerate upon for the large male audience of this crowd)
WTWFCA21: ohhh we had a wonderful night.
fairfaxmafia2: word?
WTWFCA21: we went to a concert at hte barns of wolf trap
WTWFCA21: one we go to every year
WTWFCA21: and one that i'm really going to miss
WTWFCA21: it's this folksinger guy who's very historically oriented and tells great historical stories, and very politically ...in tune...shall we say, with the parties that this household supports.
WTWFCA21: and it's very fun, and he plays the hammered dulcimer better than anyone i've ever seen
WTWFCA21: so he fascinates me.
WTWFCA21: and there are songs that i have grown to love in the past five or six years of our going to these concerts, but in particular one that i really love.
WTWFCA21: and he didn't play it during the first half, so i was all bummed out, but during intermission, if there's a request you have to make, then you write it down and put it on the stage.
WTWFCA21: okay.
WTWFCA21: so there's this song called "The Room at the Top of the Stair."
WTWFCA21: and it was for his son
WTWFCA21: and it goes "there's a room in our house at hte top of the stair... bla bla bla..." and goes on and each verse is about different stages in his son's life, and how he gets brought home from the hospital, and then goes through life yadda yadda
WTWFCA21: and then the last verse is about the room being empty
WTWFCA21: because he has gone to college.
WTWFCA21: and it's sad and always makes me happy-sad. and so, tonight, i went, hoping that he would play it, especially for me.
WTWFCA21: and so, when the intermission came, i tore off a piece of paper and wrote "I've been coming to these concerts for at least six years now, and it'll probably be my last one as I am going off to college next year. And then it will be MY room at the top of the stairs that is empty. So could you please play Room at the Top of the Stair one last time for me.
WTWFCA21: he plays loads of instruments, mind you. and "Room" is piano song. so he comes out holding JILLIONS of requests, and i'm like hm. well at least he read them, and maybe he will have read mine and will sing my song. so he plays a few little guitar diddys, and then pulls out one of the requests from the box.
WTWFCA21: and he goes "i'd like to read this one out loud, and i hope I dont embarass who ever wrote it."
WTWFCA21: and then he sits down at the piano.
WTWFCA21: andi was like yesssssssssssss
WTWFCA21: and so he read it, and it was really really sweet, and i cried like a little baby, and i was there with my family, and it was really great.
fairfaxmafia2: awwwww
WTWFCA21: and then, i proceeded to cry for most of the rest of the concert, because he did all his great sad songs, and it was just wonderful.
WTWFCA21: so yeah. it was really a great concert.
WTWFCA21: and afterwards he always lines up to talk to people.
WTWFCA21: so my dad was like do you want to stay? because at that point it was like 10:45.
WTWFCA21: and so i was like uh hello? yes of course.
WTWFCA21: so we go down, and my mom's talking to him about all their little dulcimer friends, and then tells him that i'm the little poor college girl, and he gave me this big hug and was like so where are you going to school?
WTWFCA21: and i told him, and he was like well i play at another college very frequently, that's right near there, about 15 or 20 minutes from the big city that's about 20 minutes from my college.
WTWFCA21: so i was like GREAT!! and he was like well i look forward to seeing you there. and i was like no no. i look forward to seeing YOU there.
WTWFCA21: haha
WTWFCA21: so yeah. it was really great. and afterward, my mom was like "it is absolutely unfair that you got to hug him."
WTWFCA21: ahaha
fairfaxmafia2: hahaha
fairfaxmafia2: seriously, that sounds like the scene out of a movie or something haha
fairfaxmafia2: it's so perfect
WTWFCA21: i know.
WTWFCA21: it was awesome.
WTWFCA21: like incredible.
that was what i started to write on thursday night, but fell asleep before finishing, and so never did.
summations from my weekend:
1. I love my college. I went to a dinner function for ONU, and long long long story short, I ate dinner with the president of ONU and his wife and had an awesome time, and he knows me and my family etc., and it's exciting.
2. I miss Tyler, and it is still really really sad to me when people talk about it, and I really hate people who think that they are so much better, like the Hamlet complex where they feel like "oh if you only KNEW what i was going through, you wouldn't cry yourself..." because i think that everyone's feelings on whatever scale they are, their feelings are valid too. hmm that was a bit of a soap box that i think i'll step off of now.
3. I just finished watching Pride and Prejudice, and it's renewed my major major pining for boys. and i'm starting to do stupid things so that i can be with someone and it's dumb dumb dumb but im feeling verry needy.
also, matt esherick is a pretty awesome guy.
WTWFCA21: what are you up to?
Mesherick13: waiting for the answer to arrive
Mesherick13: it's been long enough
WTWFCA21: i see. and what is the answer that is soon arriving?
[Mesherick13: i don't know yet
WTWFCA21: oh good. well when you know, let me know. haha.
Mesherick13: i'll know when i know the question
WTWFCA21: what is the question?
Mesherick13: when i know i'll let you know
Mesherick13: that'll make it easier to find the answer
WTWFCA21: oh good. since i am the knower of almost all things, i might know the answer.
WTWFCA21: and that will be splendid for us all.
Mesherick13: good good
Mesherick13: well go forth, and accomplish great things
Mesherick13: whilst i remain bogged down in a state of ignorance
WTWFCA21: ha. i will mosey forth and accomplish mediocre things, while you will sprint forth with a rejuvinated passion and accomplish monumental things.
Mesherick13: your confidence gives me confidence
WTWFCA21: well good. and your confidence gives ME confidence.
WTWFCA21: therefore we are a good team.
Mesherick13: we must never lose confidence in anything
Mesherick13: lest we fall into misery