Post-Schna-ulations

Weekend Festivities

After travelling to Columbia, MD to see the Curiosa Festival once again, I have spent much of the weekend just chillin'. The show Friday was amazing. While the rain Wednesday put Robert in a 'sad mood', leading to some really heavy, gut-wrenchingly beautiful moments in the show, the nice weather Friday prompted more of a fun show (particularly in the encores). Two totally different shows, which is why the Cure is worth seeing multiple times on the same tour.
However, the crowd sucked. During the second or third song, we moved because they were talking so loud about inane shit that we couldn't hear the music. Why pay so much for a ticket if you're not even going to listen or pay attention to the music? I just don't get it.....

Yesterday, after sleeping in, we had the pleasant surprise of finding out that a good friend from high school was in town. We therefor spent the evening catching up, hanging out, drinking to all those people from high school that we DON'T miss (what a great drinking game that is!), and just having a good time. Seeing him was pleasantly not nostalgic. What I mean is, we didn't spend all our time reflecting on the things from back in high school, but instead just spent the time being friends NOW. Despite all of us changing significantly in the past seven years, we still have enough common ground (or more) to be friends now, even without the history to rely on.

This past week has held a lot of encounters for me with people from my past. I've found that some, like my friend from this weekend, are people who I am friends with, independent of our pasts. And with some, it was great to see them, we chatted about 'old times', had a good time, and parted ways. Those are people who I may never see again, and I'm okay with that. There is nothing left between us other than 'then'.

Anyway, I'm off to go watch more "Alias" now, which has been my activity for all of today (taking a lazy day after all of the insane travelling this month). Cheers. :)

posted by Schna @ 6:30 PM