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Have I mentioned, yet, how inconvenient it is to live so close to the President?
It's a hassle. I don't know how people who live in DC do it, although I suspect it works better because it happens on a more regular basis than once every couple of months. As it is, Obama decided to come home the weekend I decided to be in Detroit, and as a result, I now have a parking ticket that I'm sure is like $60 because I left before they put up signs saying he'd be back and they were shutting the street down. There is a much longer story here, which has to do with how my roommates can't be assed to take 5 minutes to move my car after they offered to so that I wouldn't get said ticket, but then asked if they could borrow the car to go grocery shopping while I was gone, and I'm just baffled as to how one is capable of driving today but not yesterday.
Do I sound bitter? Whoops.
A word of advice to anyone deciding to live in Chicago, ever: don't have a car. Yes, it is convenient for grocery shopping, and when you're going to a concert at 9pm and the venue has a parking lot and you don't want to take public transit all the way from the north side at midnight, it is also pretty useful, and it's handy for getting to work sometimes, but oh MAN it's a pain. You will inevitably be one of few people with a car, which means everyone will want to use your car, and when you say, "Hey, I need x amount of money for doing this," and they say, "But gas is $4/gallon, you get 30 miles to the gallon, and we only went for five miles! We should pay less!" they will never understand that while that may be true, they are not paying the $60 tickets for the car that come once a month for some reason, or the $250 when it gets towed, or for fixing the brakes when they are broken, or getting new tires, and they can chip in for everything, thanks.
I think I probably still sound bitter. Having a car is too expensive, and it can go back to living in Detroit ASAP, thanks. Sighs heavily.
Anyway. It was my birthday recently! It was awesome. Lollapalooza was just as fantastic as I'd imagined, although Saturday they evacuated the park about 5 minutes before Empires set was supposed to start because of severe weather, and then the festival was shut down for like two hours and Empires weren't rescheduled and I was HEARTBROKEN. The Weekend still played, and Bloc Party, and they were FANTASTIC, and I saw fun. and wished they'd played more songs from Aim & Ignite and was yelled at on SEVERAL occasions by fans for being a "fake fan" because We Are Young played just about halfway through which was when I'd decided previously to leave for The Weekend so I left right after it played and I just wanted to shout at people because reasons.
BUT THEN EMPIRES GOT RE-SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY WHICH WAS MY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY AND GLORIOUSNESS ENSUED. They were so fucking good, oh my GOD. There was so much energy and Sean was jumping around like wild and then JUMPED ON TOP OF THE CROWD where I was standing and almost BROKE MY ARM and then continued singing Bang jumping around the crowd and the security personnel were SO UNHAPPY and it was the literal best.
Everything else was good, too, I guess. IT WAS ALL SO FANTASTIC REALLY and I got to see The Jezabels perform 'Hurt Me' which is my favorite song and basically it was phenomenal. Then my dad came and hung out with me for a couple days and then on Thursday I came back to Detroit to hang out with my mom! It's been a lovely, relaxing week. I head back tonight and go back to work tomorrow but it was a really nice break and I think I'll be better for it!
ONE DIRECTION THOUGH. I just watched the Olympic closing ceremonies and cried for like 15 minutes straight about it because ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. I could talk for days about the fact that Harold was probably sick with nerves but they all killed it anyway and that this single was released a year ago and that they've only been a band for a year and KILL ME PLEASE. I'll spare the word vomit because it's rather repetitive and mostly on Tumblr and Skype but basically none of this is okay.
Also I opened a word doc yesterday and titled it 'mall!au' and wrote words in it, which is.... progress?? I keep wanting to title things from lyrics in songs but then having nothing to write about to give that title, o well. Here's this, because you needed it in your life:
It's a hassle. I don't know how people who live in DC do it, although I suspect it works better because it happens on a more regular basis than once every couple of months. As it is, Obama decided to come home the weekend I decided to be in Detroit, and as a result, I now have a parking ticket that I'm sure is like $60 because I left before they put up signs saying he'd be back and they were shutting the street down. There is a much longer story here, which has to do with how my roommates can't be assed to take 5 minutes to move my car after they offered to so that I wouldn't get said ticket, but then asked if they could borrow the car to go grocery shopping while I was gone, and I'm just baffled as to how one is capable of driving today but not yesterday.
Do I sound bitter? Whoops.
A word of advice to anyone deciding to live in Chicago, ever: don't have a car. Yes, it is convenient for grocery shopping, and when you're going to a concert at 9pm and the venue has a parking lot and you don't want to take public transit all the way from the north side at midnight, it is also pretty useful, and it's handy for getting to work sometimes, but oh MAN it's a pain. You will inevitably be one of few people with a car, which means everyone will want to use your car, and when you say, "Hey, I need x amount of money for doing this," and they say, "But gas is $4/gallon, you get 30 miles to the gallon, and we only went for five miles! We should pay less!" they will never understand that while that may be true, they are not paying the $60 tickets for the car that come once a month for some reason, or the $250 when it gets towed, or for fixing the brakes when they are broken, or getting new tires, and they can chip in for everything, thanks.
I think I probably still sound bitter. Having a car is too expensive, and it can go back to living in Detroit ASAP, thanks. Sighs heavily.
Anyway. It was my birthday recently! It was awesome. Lollapalooza was just as fantastic as I'd imagined, although Saturday they evacuated the park about 5 minutes before Empires set was supposed to start because of severe weather, and then the festival was shut down for like two hours and Empires weren't rescheduled and I was HEARTBROKEN. The Weekend still played, and Bloc Party, and they were FANTASTIC, and I saw fun. and wished they'd played more songs from Aim & Ignite and was yelled at on SEVERAL occasions by fans for being a "fake fan" because We Are Young played just about halfway through which was when I'd decided previously to leave for The Weekend so I left right after it played and I just wanted to shout at people because reasons.
BUT THEN EMPIRES GOT RE-SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY WHICH WAS MY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY AND GLORIOUSNESS ENSUED. They were so fucking good, oh my GOD. There was so much energy and Sean was jumping around like wild and then JUMPED ON TOP OF THE CROWD where I was standing and almost BROKE MY ARM and then continued singing Bang jumping around the crowd and the security personnel were SO UNHAPPY and it was the literal best.
Everything else was good, too, I guess. IT WAS ALL SO FANTASTIC REALLY and I got to see The Jezabels perform 'Hurt Me' which is my favorite song and basically it was phenomenal. Then my dad came and hung out with me for a couple days and then on Thursday I came back to Detroit to hang out with my mom! It's been a lovely, relaxing week. I head back tonight and go back to work tomorrow but it was a really nice break and I think I'll be better for it!
ONE DIRECTION THOUGH. I just watched the Olympic closing ceremonies and cried for like 15 minutes straight about it because ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. I could talk for days about the fact that Harold was probably sick with nerves but they all killed it anyway and that this single was released a year ago and that they've only been a band for a year and KILL ME PLEASE. I'll spare the word vomit because it's rather repetitive and mostly on Tumblr and Skype but basically none of this is okay.
Also I opened a word doc yesterday and titled it 'mall!au' and wrote words in it, which is.... progress?? I keep wanting to title things from lyrics in songs but then having nothing to write about to give that title, o well. Here's this, because you needed it in your life: