Close call

I signed up to do a small discussion group at a high school today, so I ended up getting a ride with a classmate. Before going, though, we stopped at another place so that this classmate could pick up a poster. No big deal, except for the fact that he enters a "Do not Enter" zone and parks in a spot that is obviously not a parking spot. But what the hey, he's only going to be gone for a second; what are the chances he'll be caught?

So, since there's a couple of us getting a ride from this person, we're waiting in the car together and chatting away. A few minutes pass, and one of us notices a parking attendant writing a ticket! We freak out and tell the guy that we're about to leave, and he says, "Too bad, I saw you guys come in from the 'Do not Enter' zone. If my thing [ticket dispenser] weren't broken, you'd be getting a ticket!"

And before he can come back and write our information, we drive off (since our classmate left his keys in his car). That in itself was a challenge, though, since only one of us knew how to drive standard, and we couldn't figure out how to start the car for the longest time. Talk about a lucky break!

"He plays guitar AND piano?!? That's hot"

Went to the James Blunt concert yesterday with a friend and had a great time. Am now hooked onto another band, Starsailor, the guest band, which one of my cousins happens to love and is a little jealous that I didn't ask her to go. So twenty years down the line when we're both practicing medicine, and I'm barely making ends meet while she's raking in the cash, we can look back, and I can say, "Remember the time when I should have studied for that Repro exam but instead saw Starsailor? That was great!" And that will be my one highlight of my life that will even remotely compare to her other accomplishments. :P

So yes, instead of studying for my midterm, I went to this concert and had a blast. Yes, James Blunt is popular, and no, it wasn't an all-girls event. I think it was amazing to see how much energy he has throughout the whole concert...and his eyes just bulge out and look everywhere. It's crazy!

Surprisingly, even though it was a "James Blunt" concert, he really has a band (which makes sense, but wasn't intuitive from the ticket advertisements), so we got to see him play on the guitar and the piano (hence the comment that my friend made about him). We even got to hear some songs for his new album, which were half-decent. The lighting effects were also rather impressive...if I can convince my friend to send me her pictures, maybe I'll post some pictures up some time.

In spite of the fact that there was a drunk lady in the row in front of me who thought she could dance, I was quite pleased with the concert. The music was good, and I got a Starsailor cd out of it. I may have done poorly on today's exam, buy I think it was well worth it!