If these past couple of sunsets are any indication fall is right around the corner. For the next couple of weeks it’ll work out perfectly where it’s what I see as soon as I get off work.  Fall sunsets are always my favorite. They tend to be more crisp and colorful.

Classes are two weeks in and it looks like I’m going to enjoy my last semester here at OCC. They’re still just the basics but there are two that I think will stand out: Stats and Comparative Religions. Statistics because it’s the perfect blend of facts and inference. Or, how to take something true and put your own spin on it! ;) Comparative Religions because it’s a nice objective viewpoint about the major religions of the world…with some minor ones thrown in. Any classes that takes one a world view and broadens my horizons I’m definitely going to enjoy.

It’s been a fairly productive day…ran some errands, cleaned the apartment and now I’m just sipping on a cup of peppermint chamomile tea.. I can definitely say it’s relaxing.

Tomorrow starts another semester of classes. I spent tonight cleaning my apartment, getting everything together and generally all the stuff I probably won’t have time for =P I’m also pretty stoked that this is my last semester of GenEds so i can finally begin working on my degree come spring.

Work was work.. finishing up my 9-day week and finally will have a day off this Thursday. Definitely ready for that.

I did however take advantage of my free night and went driving around for a while. A modified version of one of my loops…after stopping at the royce for the requisite cup of coffee,  going down 81 and hitting central city and looping around to 431.

Just a chance to get my mind clear and get ready to focus on another semester.

I would like to take this moment to say I met Billy Corgan…and have witnesses to back it up.

Let’s start with a set list

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Good show with a GREAT start.. GLOW is a new track and it was seriously rocking…heavy drums, catchy lyrics. They played a HARDCORE Machinaesque version of Siva that left me with my jaw dropped. Getting to hear Mayonnaise  FINALLY played live made the show for me. While the rest of the show was quality, knowing exactly what songs they were going to play took some of the fun out of it.

I met up with Tim Smith after the show and we decided to go out back and see if we could catch the band coming out. We were taking our cues from this lady we met, Elizabeth. She seemed to definitely be “in the know” and achieved a level of stalker-craziness far surpassing both myself, Tim and Angela combined. After pointing out which was the roadie bus, which was the tech bus we made our way to the band tour bus. Around 20 minutes go by… ZZ Top comes out. Yes, ZZ top… I got a picture of two of them and shook hands and briefly chatted with the lead singer and guitarist.

They go away. It’s myself, Tim and Elizabeth on the front line with a crowd of 20 behind us…Jeff comes by.. Waves. Gets in the van. Bummer…I really wish he would have came to say hello

Billy comes out and he’s talking to some fans on the other side by the door.. 15 minutes later he’s standing directly in front of me having a conversation with the “front line” After thanking him for everything and BSing about the cubs, how shitty Kentucky is and me commenting how great it was to hear Transformer he looked me in the eyes and said, “Anything else you wanna ask?” So of course I froze up and kinda stammered out “I hope you come back by here soon!”

Meeting Billy Corgan definitely made tonight awesome

Things I’m excited about

• Just in case there’s not enough people talking about it… the Dark Knight was an awesome movie. Heath Ledger did an incredible job. Also, there was a really good preview for some movie in September that I can’t seem to recall =P
• Smashing Pumpkins, August 12th in Louisville!!!
• Break in classes

 Oh, I thought of another addition to my “weekend off” list. How about a weekend in Cumberland Gap? It’s still early enough to make reserversations for some of the guided tours. I definitely wouldn’t mind taking a tour of gap cave.

At least it’s fairly cool in the morning. I want my percolated coffee! =P I don’t know if doing this alone is a good idea, but, I want a couple of days away from it all

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