so last night i met beck in New Paltz and we went to a benefit concert for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Her boss is involved with the organization and gave her two tickets. Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe and Bree Sharp were the musical acts. we only saw bree sharp.

we got to New Paltz around 6. i got there first and was waiting for beck in the parking lot of a plaza very near the thruway. i had to pee so bad. so i started walking around the plaza looking for a place that might have a bathroom. i was out of luck. i ended up in a pharmacy at the other end of the plaza where there was a random table set up near the front where people were sitting and playing the quickdraw lotto game. how weird. anyway, so they didn't have a bathroom but they did have mint chapstick. i was overjoyed. i have been in desperate need of mint chapstick since i misplaced mine earlier this week. and every store i've gone into hasn't had mint chapstick, and that's the only flavor i like. anyway, so this place had mint chapstick out the butt. they had bins of it in the aisle where i found it and another bin of it next to the register. it's like every other place in the world that didn't have mint chapstick must've sent theirs to this pharmacy. anyway. so i bought a tube (and i haven't lost it yet!). then i went back to my car to wait for beck but i still hadn't satisfied nature's call. so i called beck desperate, and she told me to go to the mcdonald's which was right next door. i felt like such a dumbass. there was a mcdonald's right there.

soyeah. afterwards i met beck in the parking lot of the mcdonalds and we sought out food. we ended up eating at this irish pub place called mcguillicudly's or something like that. we totally pigged out, but the food was good. we had "irish nachos" (waffle french fries with cheese and bacon and sour cream), reubans with french fries (beck) or onion rings (me - they were hella good), apple crisp for dessert and guinnesses. we got hysterical by the end of the meal... we weren't drunk, but we were very giggley... we started playing that little hand football game that guys in study hall used to play with paper folded into a triangle... i went to the bathroom and i was still so giggley that when someone came in and used the stall next to mine, i started to giggle to myself and i had to stay in there until they left because i couldn't stop giggling and i must've seemed crazy, so i didn't want to go out and face whoever was out there...

we decided to find the studley theater (where the concert was being held... doesn't that crack you up? it sounds like you'd see a chippendales show there or something) around 8. we got lost (surprised? you shouldn't be) and ended up driving down the scariest road ever. it was all dark and suddenly it looked like we were in scary, haunted, kansas or something. beck was actually freaking out more than me for a change. we ended up back on the New Paltz campus, but we drove around for a while more before we finally decided to stop and look at a map... we found the theater and ended up arriving just about when Bree Sharp started playing. she was very entertaining. beck and i both decided that her hair rocked... the only song i knew of hers was "David Duchovny" (it's hella funny) but i enjoyed the rest of her stuff. the weird thing about the show was that it was in this auditorium that you'd normally see a play in, and it wasn't anywhere near full, so it was almost uncomfortable sitting there. everyone sat with their hands in their laps and didn't talk between songs... we didn't stay for the second guy because it was already after 9 and i had to drive home. i was on the road by quarter of 10 and i was all awake when i left, but by the time i got on the thruway i was almost passing out. i hate driving when i'm sleeping. it's so hard not to die. beh. so anyway, i didn't, i got home alive...

so my office delayed opening until 930. rock. i totally rocked the extra hour and a half of sleep. now i completely don't want to go in... beh. ah well. i'm so afraid to go outside. i'm gonna kill myself on the ice thats covering everything. i almost did last night. i tried to walk up the steps on the back porch and they were all icy and i fell forward, dropping my new white jacket in the mud and embedding little rocks all in my hands. suck.

it's a very billy joel day

it's all rainy and dark outside. days like this always make me think of guard trips, especially the long ones, like, to Dayton or somewhere. i used to love napping on the bus on the way to a show. but only a tour bus (school bus trips were hell and made me want to die). we'd each get our own row of seats, and i'd shove all my crap on the floor in front of me and stretch out across the two seats. i'd always have a pillow with me, and i'd use it to lean up against the windows. i'd throw a blanket over me fold my legs up indian style on the seats (it was the only way i'd fit). it wasn't all that comfortable, but it wasn't too bad. i'd rest my cd player in a pocket of one of my bags on the floor and put my headphones on and start up Billy Joel Greatest Hits volume 1. i'd be awake for The Piano Man, and i'd start to fall asleep during Captain Jack. my absolute favorite song on that disc is New York State of Mind, and i'd always end up waking up in time to here it. I'd stare out the window at the passing highway scenes (usually very boring... some houses, mostly trees... on the way to Dayton we'd see lots of farms) and it was just so relaxing. it was a great way to spend a saturday afternoon, and welcome downtime between a stressful morning practice and a stressful/exciting/exhausting competition that evening. wow. i miss that. (great, now i've depressed myself)

so this article lists 10 foods that you should eat every week. it says you should eat fish 2 times a week. ok, i eat fish like never. then it says beans 3-4 times a week. i can handle that... fruits, veggies, whole grains, soy or conola oil (random) and low fat/non fat dairy should be eaten every day... i can handle that as well (although i suck at the veggies thing). the article says you should have alcohol every day. i can definitely handle that :) it doesn't say anything about meat though. must've been written by a veggienazi.

i switched back to a live stream. the every 45 second still pictures were just never flattering. and then it'd be stuck there looking weird for 45 seconds. so now you can watch me be weird live. i have to tweak the settings. and if you get a blue screen then refresh the page (that's irritating. i have to figure out how to keep that from happening).

what the hell? it's snowing again. i hate this. it's april. it should not be snowing. this is like mother nature's april fools joke or something. whatever. fuck snow.

so i saw head of state last night. it was pretty good... it was weird because it kept cutting the scenes really quick and it ended up being a little random. there was this running gag where chris rock's character's ex-girlfriend (who dumped him b/c he had "no ambition") kept showing up and talking about how they were going to get married (now that he was running for president) and he'd call for security who'd take her away. i enjoyed the randomness of it. and bernie mac was really funny in it. (this was not a well-thought-out review of this movie. sorry. i'm at work and i should be working but i suck and i can't concentrate even though i'm drowning in work here).

i had a potatOH! for dinner. it's a regular potato that i paid more for because it was prewashed and wrapped in plastic. i know, i'm dumb. but it made it so easy to bake! and it came out great! the directions mentioned that the potatOH! may "whistle" in the microwave. (it didn't. how dissappointing.)

so the party last night was a good time. it was "bring your own item to consume" so i brought guinness and hershey kisses. rock. no one helped me partake in the guinness, which was fine with me, and i ended up drinking my four pack. i had a good time :) we played this movie game that shows clips on dvd and cranium. (so i guess i was off base with that game of life thing. oh well. i still like that game).

state trooper psych test scheduling went well. it was great to see dr. mac and dave again. and very nice to earn an easy $40. it was a small group, and i was in charge of scheduling the tests in middletown and NYC. i didn't get that many people, only about 35 or so. there were tons of people for batavia and oneida.

it's snowing. and that sucks. i hate snow. i was going to go to my parents house this afternoon and do some laundry and visit, but now that i'm here i don't feel like leaving my apartment at all. i need to go to the store though. ugh. i just want to crawl in bed and snuggle under my big 'ol down comforter for the rest of the afternoon. sigh.