Let it be a sweet sweet sound in your ear

It's been a while since I last updated, so this might be lenthy.

So last month, Mewithoutyou came into town, bringing back those wonderful boys in tow.  Seriously, I don't think I've ever been so comfortable around two people ever.  Mewithoutyou was absolutely amazing.  Aaron shaved his beard and was barely recognizable.  During Sparta's set I sat with Jimmy at the Invisible Children merch table and caught up with him.  He told me about touring with Showbread and how some girl on the subway in New York City though he and Marcus were together, it made me laugh.  I told him about how I'm missing my senior prom to go on the Invisible Children peace walk in Chicago--then he told me he would take me to prom--too bad he lives in Phillidelphia.  Then I helped him and Marcus count up all the money from their sales and Aaron came up and put a wad of cash in their donation jar and gave me his guitar pick....it was awesome.

I rode back to Hannah's with them in what they had named the "Guy-Mobile!" and they just kept firing silly questions at me the whole time.  When we got back, Hannah, Leah and I cooked for them and we stayed up late watching The Lion King.  They're done touring for now, but they said hopefully they'll do it again next year, and promised to visit me at Columbia if they're ever in Chicago.

Spring break was amazing.  Leah, Hannah and I went to Arkansas to Han's cabin on the Spring River.  It was astonishingly georgeous.  It was too cold to get in the water which was a little disapointing, but it was so much fun nonetheless.  The first thing that happened when we got to the cabin was to lock ourselves out, so Leah had to climb a huge ladder [becauses the cabin is on 8 foot stilts] and climb in through the only window that wasn't locked, which was a tiny window in the bathroom.

The Rocket Summer show was completely fantastic.  It had been way too long since I'd been to a TRS show.  Bryce played two new songs and they were awesome.  He was also wearing an Invisible Children shirt--he had met Jimmy and Marcus at a show and got really into the cause.  He even announced onstage that everyone should check IC out and get involved.  After his set I went to talk to him and we had a great conversation about Invisible Children and how cool Jimmy and Marcus are.  Bryce put on the best show ever, I was dancing like crazy and being showered with confetti the whole time.  I was in a euphoric state of joy for the rest of the week...he and his music just seem to do that to me.

Other than that, everything else has been really sucking it up lately.  People who I considered the biggest part of my life are slowly but surely fading out.  They can't take the time out of their busy schedules to spend time with their so-called "best friend".  I'm being routinly pushed aside for whatever boyfriend or more exciting person that comes along and I'm feeling very unwanted here.  I feel like I can't rely on anyone anymore.  It has made me realize that I am absolutely ready to leave this place.  There's nothing left for me here.  The ones I thought I could always count on are continually letting me down.  I am so excited to go up to Chicago for school next year and completely start over; search for my bigger and better.

I'm all for the idea of leaving those "friends" behind, completely forgetting about them, like they seem to have done to me.  Maybe when I'm gone they'll look around and miss me, but I won't hold my breath.  I am thankful for those rare few that are always there for me, always game to sit down, drink a few hundred cups of coffee and listen to me, even when I'm at my worst.

I'm empty empty empty.  I want to say they stole it from me.  I want to say they tore it from my arms.  But I'll tell you the truth:  I gave it to them.

Updation!!!

So the past week//weekend has been really busy and hectic for me, but I've been loving it.

Thursday I went to see Antony and Cleopatra with my college english class, which was actually really boring.  Though afterwards we went to West County where I [finally] bought a stretcher to put in my zeros and Hannah and I checked out the Mac Store.

That night was dress rehearsal.  Beforehand, Hannah, Lela, Sky, Carrie, Sammy, Meeghan & I went to HyHo.  We watched Sammy devour an entire basket of crackers.

Friday was a half day at school, so when we got out at eleven Lela and I went over to Han's and she made us a gourmet lunch of peanut encrusted chicken with a sweet potato puree with pear an vinegarette salads.  And for dessert we had strawberry-kiwi crapes.  It was so good.  Best Friends Means Hannah cooks for us.

The play on Friday and Saturday night went amazingly.  I was really sad that it was my last play.  Everyone kept telling us seniors how much they loved us and kept hugging us everytime they saw us.  It got a bit weepy, but it was so nice to be appriciated.  On Saturday after curtain call, Mr. Biver recognized all the seniors [all four of us] and we gave him his present that Han and I bought earlier that day.

After the play on Saturday, the whole drama department went up to Lazer Rock and John Dennis treated everyone to lazer tag and pizza.   I only stayed for a little while though.  Hannah, Ashley, Sammy, Caleb, Robert, Andrew and I left early and went to Steak n'Shake for cheese fries and milkshakes.

 Then on Sunday we [Hannah, Fraz, and I] took Caleb to eat at Blueberry Hill to celebrate his last day of walking, since he had his foot surgery yesterday.  The weather was gorgeous and we sat outside listening to a drum circle that a bunch of people set up for a while and Hannah almost got another tat but there were too many people at Iron Age and she couldn't get scheduled that day.

This weekend was amazing and the coming one should be great too.  Movie night on Friday, High Tea Party on Saturday.  Then on Monday Mewithoutyou...which means: JIMMY & MARCUS!!!!!  I can't wait to see them again and stay up late watching disney movies and drinking milkshakes.

Friday night I met some of the coolest people ever..

So we left school and drove to the Creepy for the Showbread show.  While we were waiting outside for the doors to open, we met this crazy kid named "BJ" who was so obviously drunk/high who tried to give everyone his autograph and kept falling over on everyone.  He was v. annoying.

Then when we got in, we got places right next to the stage.  One of the opening bands, Tyler Read, was amazing!  And apparently they were supposed to be Fall Out Boy's protege, but FOB signed P!ATD instead, which sucks because Tyler Read is so much better than panic!.  During their song "private school girls" this guy named Marcus came out and gave a "tambo-clinic" and killed it on the tamborine.

Then Showbread played and it was awesome.  Their set could have been longer, but it was great.  During "Mouth Like A Magazine" Ivory gave the microphone to Hannah, This guy named Brandon, and I to sing it.

After Showbread's set, we went back to the merch tables [because Pillar sucks].  We chatted with the boys from Tyler Read and another opening band Starlit Platoon.  I bought a Showbread shirt, and then we went over to this "Invisible Children" booth.  It turns out that the tamborine player Marcus and his friend Jimmy were touring with their band to promote a program that helps Ugandan refugee children.  The kids travel hundreds of miles to cities to sleep in the hospitals, under varandas and in the streets, because it is safer for them there than to sleep at home where they can be kidnapped by the Rebels and turned into child-soldiers.

Anyway, we talked to Marcus and Jimmy for a really long time, and they gave us stickers and cds and other stuff.  It turned out that they needed a place to stay that night, because they had been sleeping in their tour-van the past few nights.  So Hannah, full of her Southern hospitality, offered up her house.  So, we stayed with them until Pillar's set was over, and we made friends with the Lead singers of Tyler Read and Starlit Platoon and all of the merch people.  We helped them pack up their stuff and then we all headed to Dell Taco.  It was a lot of fun.  Marcus told us really funny [though somewhat corny] jokes and Jimmy kept sneaking up behind me and scaring the crap out of me, but he stopped after I let him have my extra taco and announced to everyone that I was "his favorite girl in the whole world".

Then we brought Jimmy and Marcus back to Hannah's where we stayed up all night watching Aladdin and playing x-box.  Oh, and Jimmy made us all milkshakes.  Then in the morning we made them eggs and waffles, and they left at around three.  They really wanted us to go with them to Springfeild which was their next date, but we couldn't go,  but in a few months they will be touring with MeWithoutYou, so hopefully we will see them again.