Spent way too long this morning attempting to get Radiohead tickets for Atlanta in the fansite's pre-sale. What a disaster. No one knew what time it was starting, how many tickets there were, or why little spurts of tickets were being released. It was frustrating. Oh well, still hoping to get a pair on Saturday when they go on sale to the public.

Stolen from Carson Ellis' blog.

Liiiiiiife.

Slow down, a little.
Teach me things that I probably should have figured out by now.

November

I get to go back to work on Monday, which is a very good thing! November is showing some serious promise so far.

* Trees are at their most lovely

* Saw Butterfly Boucher and Katie Herzig on Friday with the Gnome and Caity-Caity, stood next to people like Matthew Perryman Jones, Matt Odmark and Derek Webb, gotta love Nashville

* I started helping my mom set up all her Christmas decorations at her house, thankful that she is feeling pretty good right now

* A year ago today I saw Sufjan Stevens in Atlanta

* I got to sleep in an hour later today and experience an altered reality where I question what time really is

* I've acquired so much good music this month already

* Had a family movie night last night at my parents' house with Luke, Chelsey, Gabe, Tanya, Anca and le Mére and le Pére

* Going right now to enjoy delicious food with one of my best friends, Brittany, and her Fiancé



Mmm, mmm, good.

October

I spent the last half of October in the hospital, and then at home in bed, with a really rare, really bizarre virus that causes one to feel as if they are experiencing late stage rheumatoid arthritis (which was pretty freaky considering I'm only 25 and very healthy). Painful is an understatement. At first I couldn't use my ankles and wrists much, and then it started to affect my elbows and knees. Thankfully most of the pain is gone now. (UPDATE 3.5.12: my follow up appointments have revealed that the doctors think that I probably actually had rheumatic fever. Leave it to me to get a 19th century sickness.)

I can't wait to be back at work and normal life, and I'm much better than when it started, but now I have a cold on top of everything. I must need downtime. Or something.

I rode with my parents up into the wilds of Kentucky one day to visit my mother's aunt. Here are some blurry pictures I took in a medicated state from the back of a van:






I've missed Kentucky. The only glimpses I get of it are when my brother and I drive our friend up to Indiana University.