Belle and Sebastian and more...

I haven't posted in awhile because I've been pretty busy.  Instead of making a bunch of posts, I figured I would roll everything into one.  ;-)

Monday night Jeff and I went to see Belle and Sebastian and the concert was great (preceeded by an equally great dinner at Busboys and Poets with Aaron).  I was disappointed by the New Pornographer's opening, but what could you expect when 2/3 of the main vocalists weren't there, and one of the replacement vocalists had lost her voice.  It was actually pretty painful. The (male) drummer was singing falsetto on some of the female backings, then the main singer bust his thuimb open and started to bleed.  I think they spent most of their time on stage talking or tuning their guitars (I'm assuming a nervous tick).  Then they went off early.

But B+S rocked!  And they played one of my favorite B sides: "Your Cover's Blown".  NPR recorded the show I was at and you can listen to it here if you are so inclined. 

Tuesday was fairly uneventful and Wednesday afternoon I took off for Minneapolis for work.  Let me just say that the roads in Minneapolis are tres confusing.  But I am confident that if I ever get on Amazing Race and we end up in MN, I now will have the jump on the other teams.  ;-)  For example:  there is a I-35E and a I-35W.  One would (naturally) assume that this was the same road, runing E-W, right?  But no!  In MN they like to be tricky!  Instead, they are two different roads running parallel to each other and they both run N-S (wtf?).  It took me awhile to figure out that I wanted I-35E North.  Fortunately I picked up a free map from the car rental place.

So yesterday I was on my way back hanging out at the MSP airport and eating a really good burger (and enjoying a very good local brew), I caught the very exciting end of the Syracuse-UConn game.  Then I tried calling my dad to heckle him, but he wasn't home.  Neither was my sister.  Oh well. 

And unfortunately, GW lost yesterday.  (Pops, hurry back!)  At Alexis' birthday last night this seemed to be the hot topic of conversation.

Today in D.C. it is almost 80 degrees.  Good thing I have one (yes, only one) Summer work-appropriate shirt that fits me.  In addition to comps studying I sense shopping in my immediate future.