"Through the slowest heaving night"

One 3-page paper to write by Thursday and another MBA class is complete. Two more start after Labor Day. I'm right at half way through...seems like I've been plugging away at this for quite some time. I'll get there.

I'm really procrastinating with this paper. If there's one thing that I'm glad I got past from college, it was my tendency to think naps around 11 p.m. or even Midnight were a good idea. Every once in awhile that worked, but generally it just sucked. I hated to wake up so I'd stretch those naps out and sometimes I'd just give up altogether. There were many good things about undergrad, but that was not one of them.

I wonder if I will ever again be involved in an 8-player game of Halo with friends. I miss basketball, but there is always the possibility of a basketball game...and I know there will be more basketball in my future. The odds of ever having a taste of those Halo games in the dorm again are much, much worse...

Song of the Day: Come Talk to Me - Bon Iver (originally by Peter Gabriel)

"Like rock & roll and the radio"

Yesterday I went camping with friends in the Bloomington area. A day filled with basketball, swimming, walking through the woods, hanging out by the river, eating lots of campfire food, and a really long game of Monopoly from Midnight to 3 a.m.

Conversations included, debating the merits of saying hi to celebrities when you run into them versus leaving them alone, Adam Sandler movies, reminiscing with Ricky of camping in Kentucky in 2005, and how long we should wait to use the basketball court before giving up and going to the pool.

It was a good day. I'm left a little sore from all the physical activity my body isn't used to.

Song of the Day: Like Rock & Roll & Radio by Ray LaMontagne...can't get enough of it.

"Just got to get me somewhere"

It is a rare and good day when two of your favorite artists release albums on the same day (Tuesday) and you get them both on the same day (Thursday). Ray LaMontagne and David Gray are both in my Top 10, so a very rare day indeed. As a brief aside, I remember getting two CDs a couple other times...when I was a kid, I picked up Sophie B. Hawkins and Hootie and the Blowfish (2nd album) on the same day. Then in high school one fall day I picked up Smashing Pumpkins greatest hits and Creed's 3rd album on the same day.

Of those four albums, I occassionally will listen to some good old Smashing Pumpkins, but the rest fell out of rotation long ago.

I've fallen into the chronic 1 a.m. bedtime routine, which isn't serving me too well. On that note, time to go use the elliptical for 20 min before bed. If I don't go now it will get too late!

"Like I thought she would"

Oddly, I was stuck on 777 posts for almost a full month. I just discovered that rock 'n roll band extraordinare Better Than Ezra will be playing the Vouge on December 5, 2010. If the Dallas vs. Colts game remains scheduled for 4:15 p.m. (rather than flexed to the night game), maybe Peyton will swing by for the show.

School continues to move along. Last week I was in Bloomington for the second year "in-residence" class. Not nearly as intense as the first year. All in all, not a bad week in Hoosier-land.

Fall...and football...season are right around the corner. I'm getting antsy!

Last show watched: True Blood
Last song listened to: Jolene by Ray LaMontagne