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For anyone who wants to see pictures from the Chattanooga/Nashville trip, here's the link.
No pictures in the actual show, no cameras allowed and all. Sorry kids. The pictures are mostly from the Chattanooga aquarium and the Nashville Parthenon...and there's one of me in the Country Music Hall of Fame, One of the Wiener mobile (which, by the way, has a vanity plate that reads "bologna" but I couldn't get a good picture of it) and one of the drive back).
The show was amazing, though they closed with what is quite possibly my least favorite B&S song of all time...or at least in the bottom 3 for me.
I lost my purse in a Chik-Fil-a on the way down and Ryan and I very nearly got stranded in Tifton because despite the fact that he had money in his bank account, the card would not swipe at the gas station. The woman told us to just go on and told Ryan that he needed to call the gas station the next day otherwise they would report it as a drive off. Chik-fil-a manager guy said he would mail me my purse (I realized when we stopped for gas in Atlanta that I had left it at the restaurant and called them to see if it was still there). Hopefully it will be here tomorrow. If it doesn't arrive I guess I'll call them back and make sure it actually got sent and then call my bank/credit card and make sure there hasn't been any activity in the past couple of days.
I bought a Moog button at an awesome little used music/comic shop in Nashville. I cannot explain how happy this button makes me. I also found a copy of Brain Candy for $5 and that also makes me incredibly happy.
We also went to the Jack Daniel distillery and bought ourselves some slightly special Jack. We're waiting for a special occasion to pop it open (I think Samantha coming for a visit would be the perfect reason, but perhaps I'm wrong...I mean I know it's not like it's the Carlo Rossi vineyard special wine or anything...it's just whiskey).
It was good to see James in Chattanooga...too bad my dumbass didn't get any pictures with him despite the fact that I had every intention of doing so. I'll post a picture of the print he made me in the next day or so. It's awesome. I love having creative friends.
I found out today that I did not get into the PhD program at GWU...while my spirits are pretty shaken, I really thought that I was a shoe in for the Masters, and I'm still going to try to think positively and plan as if that's the case unless/until I hear otherwise...which might be another month away. Waiting sucks. If I find out in a month that I didn't even get into the MA program, I have no idea what we'll be doing next year. We didn't renew our lease for this apartment, and the deadline is in a week or so I think. I also really really really don't want to stay in Gainesville. I'm ready to move on. Ryan's done with school and even though I have a job in my field (and more importantly a job that I like), it's still not really exactly what I want to do, and then there's the fact that I don't really get paid enough, don't get benefits, don't get holidays, etc. We've been discussing moving to DC anyway, but we'd have to both have jobs lined up and have quite a bit of money saved up to make this possible.
Anyway, that's the update for now.
No pictures in the actual show, no cameras allowed and all. Sorry kids. The pictures are mostly from the Chattanooga aquarium and the Nashville Parthenon...and there's one of me in the Country Music Hall of Fame, One of the Wiener mobile (which, by the way, has a vanity plate that reads "bologna" but I couldn't get a good picture of it) and one of the drive back).
The show was amazing, though they closed with what is quite possibly my least favorite B&S song of all time...or at least in the bottom 3 for me.
I lost my purse in a Chik-Fil-a on the way down and Ryan and I very nearly got stranded in Tifton because despite the fact that he had money in his bank account, the card would not swipe at the gas station. The woman told us to just go on and told Ryan that he needed to call the gas station the next day otherwise they would report it as a drive off. Chik-fil-a manager guy said he would mail me my purse (I realized when we stopped for gas in Atlanta that I had left it at the restaurant and called them to see if it was still there). Hopefully it will be here tomorrow. If it doesn't arrive I guess I'll call them back and make sure it actually got sent and then call my bank/credit card and make sure there hasn't been any activity in the past couple of days.
I bought a Moog button at an awesome little used music/comic shop in Nashville. I cannot explain how happy this button makes me. I also found a copy of Brain Candy for $5 and that also makes me incredibly happy.
We also went to the Jack Daniel distillery and bought ourselves some slightly special Jack. We're waiting for a special occasion to pop it open (I think Samantha coming for a visit would be the perfect reason, but perhaps I'm wrong...I mean I know it's not like it's the Carlo Rossi vineyard special wine or anything...it's just whiskey).
It was good to see James in Chattanooga...too bad my dumbass didn't get any pictures with him despite the fact that I had every intention of doing so. I'll post a picture of the print he made me in the next day or so. It's awesome. I love having creative friends.
I found out today that I did not get into the PhD program at GWU...while my spirits are pretty shaken, I really thought that I was a shoe in for the Masters, and I'm still going to try to think positively and plan as if that's the case unless/until I hear otherwise...which might be another month away. Waiting sucks. If I find out in a month that I didn't even get into the MA program, I have no idea what we'll be doing next year. We didn't renew our lease for this apartment, and the deadline is in a week or so I think. I also really really really don't want to stay in Gainesville. I'm ready to move on. Ryan's done with school and even though I have a job in my field (and more importantly a job that I like), it's still not really exactly what I want to do, and then there's the fact that I don't really get paid enough, don't get benefits, don't get holidays, etc. We've been discussing moving to DC anyway, but we'd have to both have jobs lined up and have quite a bit of money saved up to make this possible.
Anyway, that's the update for now.