How to assess your seater

As many of you know, I call New York City my current home. One of the benefits of New York City is ditching your car for the subway. All those rumors you hear about seats on the New York City Subway are TRUE. You steal seats out from under people, pull out your book and NEVER look up because if you make contact with an older person you're going to have to give that seat up (Or I will, because I'm nice. But many people here aren't nice, so.....)

Often times you come across seats on the subway that are are between two people. Sometimes, people feel the need to take up more than one seat or 1 1/2 seats. That's not the big problem. What is a problem is when a third person doesn't know the size of their own behind and choses to sit between you and that person who is overflowing over their seat two seats away. And sticky, sweaty New York summers make this situation EVEN MORE FUN.

So I ask you this, delightful blog readers, should you ever come to NYC, know the size of your seater. Know where your butt can fit. Because if you try to smush yourself between me and the other individual, its not fun. Or worth sitting for any of us. And you'll get that deadly New Yorker stare.

Hasa Diga Eebowai

Earlier this year, a friend had sent an email to be about the new broadway musical by the South Park guys. Confession: I don't like South Park. So I put it in my "I should see...." list in February. I didn't pay much attention to it until my sister and mom came to visit on Wednesday, and we were wondering what to do. I suggested Broadway, and "Maybe we can get Book of Mormon tickets from TKTS." Ha. We show up and the guy standing there to answer questions about plays responded "Ha. That's sold out until August." We ended up at How To Succeed in Business. And thus begin a quest. To win the Book of Mormon lottery. Follow me on Twitter? I counted my failures.

So, I did in fact lose 10 times before Friday. And an 11th time on Friday. My cousin was in town, so she, her husband and friend met my friend and I infront of the theater. They were kind enough to throw their names in the crowd of about 250 people waiting for the lottery of exactly 22 tickets. I did not win. My cousin-in-law did! He was kind enough to give my work friend and I the tickets.

And it was AWESOME. It was so funny. And wrong. And smart. Which, I only realized after that I saw it the Friday before the Tonys. Where it is widely believed that it will win pretty much everything it's nominated for. Watching the show, I did wonder what they could actually sing on national television. While there are so many great, great moments, I think Spooky

Mormon Hell Dream may be my favorite on-stage performance (key phrase: "I can't

believe Jesus called me a dick!"). The one that gets is Hello. Close second in best performance - Joseph Smith American Profit.

Point of post: If you're planning a trip to New York City, you should book your trip around when you can buy tickets to the book of mormon. Coincidentally, it's in the same theater as Spring Awakening. Pure awesomeness clearly frequently happens at the Eugene O'Neill theater.

Boston

I did not fulfill a life goal this weekend - even though I could have. As I saw Augustana two times earlier in the week in New York (!!!!), I felt that I'd leave the goal of seeing Augustana sing Boston in Boston for another time (And I knew I could catch it on YouTube. So can you!)



I have a cousin who is an audiologist, and she'd be really proud of me, because I wore ear plugs at BOTH shows.

Moral of the story - these kids should show up more often. The last time I saw them live was the last time their CD came out. And I now own two t-shirts with their band name on them, placing them the ONLY band in that elite category for this music fanatic.

Under the cover of darkness

Easter weekend weather where I live:


Easter weekend weather where I'm headed:


What's at the Dallas airport where I have a layover:

A few of these people will be at the destination point:

One can only hope that glorious amounts of card games are one of the few things that comes out of this weekend. Win.

Steal Your Heart

One of the best ways to start off the weekend is to get an email that looks like this:

Why? Let me list you the reasons:

1) Look at those bands! Clearly I've purchased tickets to them before.

2) Note the date and venue: Same date time and venue (They're touring TOGETHER!)

3) It's telling me tickets are going on sale. I've had tickets for two weeks.

4) I've been waiting on an Augustana tour for three years.

5) Have you been to Irving Plaza? It's tiny. And two stories. I love it.

This tour may be the best combo since Muse and Silversun Pickups.

Happy Friday!

Seasons

Relishing in my own Sunday morning....which is my favorite part of the week...while on a New York Times reading break with my coffee, I found this on Facebook. How could this not make your morning better?

Not to mention, with all the Delta miles I'll be accumulating in the next month, the next time I read my New York Times, it will probably be on a park bench in the delightful spring weather overlooking the Hudson River.

Possum Kingdom

I got tagged by LM to do this. How it works is that I tell 10 things about myself that people may or may not know. Then I pass the award onto 7 other bloggers whom I want to participate.

My 10 things:
1. I used to refuse to wear dresses. I hated them, and would never to wear them. Then I moved to New York City and experienced 100 degree days and discovered the magical cotton sun dress.

2. During the fall and winter, the bar on Saturdays and Sundays is my second home. Would you have said this to the college me, I'd of said you were crazy, the new NYC me sees it as the only place to see every college football, college basketball and pro game I ever want to see.

3. I don't watch movies in my spare time. Which is contradictory considering that if I find a great TV show on DVD, I'll watch for hours. Case in point: Alias and Skins.

4. I am horrible with numbers. Don't trust me with them, and if you'd like me to remember some numbers for you, you'd better have a pen and paper I can write them down on.

5. Concerts are my absolute most favorite thing to do in this entire world. I classify everything I see into three categories 1) The type of band I will see every time they come because I love them that much (Hanson, Muse, All Time Low, etc) 2) The band that's good and they have that song on the radio you can't stop singing and you may as well go b/c what else are you doing that evening? Or they havent toured in a while and they're pretty good 3) I'm in NYC and it's free.

6. Every book I ready is judged against Outlander. I'm aware this is a horrible fixed point, but, in my standards, it's the best.

7. I still buy CDs. Like the hard discs. When something I want to listen to comes out, I head to Best Buy to get the $7 special and have a beautiful stack right next to my books. I also still really listening to the radio...if it's the right station.

8. I like to travel. It's my goal to eventually travel enough that Delta upgrades me. At least once.

9. I love roller coasters.

10. I never actually intended to move to New York City...it kind of just happend.

And I was the last one tagged to do this. LM, SEW and JCF, post date tag. Voila!