Nope

That alarm clock app worked for 2 days and then I got used to it and now I can pretty much do the puzzles while I'm sleeping. I can't seem to find a way to wake myself up pleasantly and keep myself awake.

I was typing a paper for graphic design earlier and under one of the words was a green squiggly line indicating grammar error, I guess. When I right clicked, it said to use a semi-colon and not a comma. My question is this: How the hell does Word know that I need a semi-colon? Does it know all of the subjects and verbs and knows when there are 2 full sentences side by side? I guess that's not the craziest thing a computer can do, but I don't know. I just am not smarter than the computer today.

So on Tuesday my alarm from my phone went off in class. Why it was set for 9:30a on a weekday, I'll never know. But as punishment for disrupting class, the art department has this policy that you have to bring cookies when your phone goes off. My prof was super excited that this happened because, I mean, cookies. Anyway, there's only 11 people in that class so I asked what flavor they wanted and this guy said how about those delicious cookies from Zaxby's, but this other guy was like nah, they have chips ahoy on sale at Winn Dixie, just get those. BY THE WAY, the guy that said that used to play in a band with Derek Birdsong! Crazy. Of all the people, my next door neighbor played in a band with a guy in my photo class. Back to the cookies, there were a couple people that said homemade and this girl who I kind of consider a friend said m&m. Being the Suzy Homemaker that I am, I made homemade m&m ones.

 Now this makes me super nervous because now I have to hear judgement on them. Also, what if my most mortifying fear comes true and a classmate finds a hair in a cookie. I hope that it's highly unlikely because I tied my hair back and I even took a lint roller to my shirt and I also tried not to lean over the mix while I was mixing. I take so many precautions against that because I have found one too many of my dear mom's hairs in my food growing up and almost nothing makes my stomach turn faster. Sorry, mom!
I just hope they're edible. My grandmother tried one, but she's not going to say that they're gross to my face. I tried one too, but I'll eat anything. At least they look pretty!

Inarticulate

Lately, I've had the worst kind of word forgetfulness. This post may not even be legible when I'm through. I'm in 3 studio classes at the moment and there are so many critiques. I mean the actual thing critique not the verb. When I first changed my major to art, the thought of having everyone judge my artwork was mortifying. It's still pretty terrible, but I've grown used to it. It's now about trying to sound impressive when you're explaining the crap you had to stay up all night to finish. Words are the worst.

Today I answered the phone at work and the person was like, "Heyyyy whatch you been doing?" and I responded with pure silence. I absolutely could not think of the answer to what they were trying to ask me. I also had no idea who it was. I thought it was a wrong number and I was like I am not capable of dealing with a wrong number right now. It wasn't a wrong number, it was this guy that works in our department and the weird thing is I totally thought he sounded like an older black lady.

In other news, I'm going to try this alarm clock app I just downloaded to wake me up tomorrow. It has puzzles. Maybe it'll work! I'm kind of excited, but I know that will change when I open my eyes tomorrow. The first thing that I recall thinking in the morning times is 'I so don't want to be awake right now.' I go to bed set on the fact that I'm going to wake up and get out of bed right when my alarm clock goes off and then I turn into a grumples in the morning that completely will not get out of bed. Night time version of me is definitely not the same as morning version of me.

mmmwell

So it's the 16th. I am no longer spewing mucus. Super nice visual. I think I'm feeling okay.
School is being a real bummer though. I am not feeling very motivated and it's causing some problems. I'm hoping this is just a phase and I'll develop some clarity soon. There are a lot of things that I wish I could change immediately. So many things. Been having quite a few of those dreams where I'm falling and not in a peaceful way.

I'm watching this video and it's talking about how laughing is a social thing and you're more likely to laugh when you're in a group of people. Maybe I just need to laugh more.

Gone by the 16th

I need to remember that I started showing symptoms of a cold on Sunday, October 6th. They should be gone by the 16th. OR ELSE.

Also, I must note that I've used 4 boxes of 56-ct tissues in the past 48 hours which I think is impressively gross.

Concert hangover

I've got it. Plus, in my haste this morning, I forgot to put on deodorant... so sorry persons I have to come in contact with today.


Walk The Moon concert last night was the best. The absolute best.
All day yesterday I was nervous about driving to Nashville. I've never driven there myself and it's such a long drive and Smells and I both had to be back at our respective homes by Thursday morning because we both had things that we could not skip. I mean, from an outside perspective, the whole thing was a terrible idea and it would blow up in our faces. Probably a responsible set of people would opt out of this concert. But we are just who we are and we had our minds set on going.

The drive there wasn't too bad. I'm a horrible driver so we had a few "OH GOD" moments around sharp curves and such. No big deal. Nashville is a really cool city. Lots of crunchy granola type stores & restaurants, which are my favorite kind of stores & restaurants. I'd love to go back and visit more of Nashville. So we drive up in there and find the venue. We got there about 2 hours before the doors opened and there weren't many people waiting outside the doors yet so we decided to go find a gas station for snacks & bathrooms. At the gas station, the ladies behind the cash register liked my hair & Smells gave a homeless guy 3 dollars & he told her he loved her.

When we got back to the venue there was a guy who set up a paid parking thing that totally was not there when we first arrived. By pure stroke of luck, I had $5 cash. It was a great parking spot anyway. Smells asked the parking lot guy if he knew about the separate line for early entry(Which we had!!!), & he said he thought it was only one line right now because there weren't many people in line yet. There were only like 15 or so people waiting in line at that point, maybe even less.

I'm horrible at remembering times, but sometime around 7p, all of the people who got wristbands moved to another line & we waited in a different until they let us in. There were only like 15 people with wristbands so that was awesome & there were only like 6 people in front of us. Eventually the security people let us in & Smells rushed ahead because I have a bum knee & I was slow. I did some thing to my knee that morning while walking up the stairs to class & now it pops & hurts when I walk. Anyway, Smells was rushing to the left side, which I though was weird because she wanted to stand in front of Kevin, who always plays on the right side of the stage. We settled in front of where Eli stands, which is totally fine by me because he's super fun to watch & he seems to make eye contact with everybody & he just looks so happy to be there.



Because we bought these badass early entry tickets we were able to be at the very, very front row on the guard rail almost a foot to the left of where Nicholas stands at his keyboard. If I reached my arms out, my fingertips could touch the stage, that's how close. I felt bad for the people behind me... I'm so tall & big that I took up a lot of space, but I got over that once the band took the stage. There's no time to be self-conscious when you're having a ball.

Magic man came on & they were great. Not many people in the crowd knew their songs though. The electric guitarist Sam was a total cutie. And the drummer. During their last song Eli and Nick came out and danced. Energy increased exponentially after that.

During shows Nicholas does this thing where he gets into the crowd somehow. In one of the songs he stepped onto the rail right in front of his keyboard & held some girls' hands and just stepped back. We were like a foot to the left of that so we didn't get any action then, BUT THEN on another part of the song or maybe a different song (my memory is bad!) Nicholas stepped on to the rail and grabbed some girls' hands then he stepped his other foot on to the rail and tightroped down toward Smells & I! When he stepped closer to us I stuck my hand up, obviously, but I really thought he would grab Smells' hand. He didn't though. He caught my hand! I HELD HANDS WITH NICHOLAS PETRICCA. As he was stepping and holding my hand, I was super focused on how sweaty his hand was & how he better not slip. As he passed me, I figured he would let go & take another girls' hand. I don't know if this was my imagination, but I think I tried to loosen & he tightened at the same time. Magical. I pretty much led him back to the stage. I have never been more thrilled to have orangutan arms. 

I think this is him to the right of us. I mean there's no way to tell who or where it is, but that's pretty much what happened in picture form.

I so wish there was video that I could find of that moment. Actually I wish I had a video of that whole concert. It was all so much good.

There's no mistaking those large white arms are mine. :)

Made serious eye contact with @brosemaiman tonight during the @WALKTHEMOONband concert which was absolutely sick. pic.twitter.com/Ks1CDLsnUB
— Jessica Knox (@jessicaknoxx) October 3, 2013

Can you see that purple tinge on that person's hair?! That's me!

Last night was completely perfect thanks to @WALKTHEMOONband pic.twitter.com/GcsiTBFSGl
— △ s a v △ (@savanna_collie) October 3, 2013

After the show, Smells wanted to get a shirt so we waded through the people to stand in line. I then decided that I didn't want to stand in line so I moved to the back by the wall.

Took this picture of Smells. Good one, right? Then she told me that Magic Man were selling their album for $5 and they were signing them as well. Excellent opportunity. So of course we did that. Smells wanted a picture so I took a picture.

Please note the bass guitarist's Taylor Swift shirt. Smells thought that was mega exciting. They were all very nice and very pretty.

We kind of people watched for a minute after that. A lot of them cleared out, but there were still a few people taking pictures in the photobooth that was set up. Then we see the guy from the Shiver Shiver video (@Blakeing_Bad) come out and he takes a picture in the photobooth and then he takes a picture with a group of girls and then I say something like Hey you were great in the shiver shiver video. He was super gracious and shook my hand and said he saw me from the stage and asked if I saw him wave, which I did. Smells asked him if he'd take a picture with us and I was just going to do a selfie, but Smells was like just get somebody to take it, so I asked the guy that was standing right there(@TomFloorwalker) who also happened to be the guy that checked all the guitars and drums before the show. He was super funny and took this picture...

Pretty handsome. Then he took this one...

And he was like, "You know I did all the choreography to Shiver Shiver" :) They were both super nice and really were just a cherry on top of an already delicious sundae of an evening

Some pictures that Smells took during the show:

Go see a Walk the Moon show. You will, without a doubt, have a great time.