well well well

i'm still in that whole "today is amazing" and "today is fucking terrible" phase and doing way too much shit all of the time. This weekend is going to be an awesome nightmare. I'm climbing tonight, have a date tomorrow night, going to a concert with a couple of friends Friday night, going down to Mount Rainier National Park to instruct mountaineering skills Saturday (kleinbl00 I still gotta send you those details), going to a concert Saturday night, and going climbing Sunday. Big yikes.

Last Thursday was amazing though. Let's talk about that. Went to see my favorite band, Yo La Tengo perform for the 2nd night in a row. The 1st night I went solo, but on Thursday I went with a good friend of mine who I do a lot of mountain climbing with, and his friend who also happens to be his boss.

So few things. Got an AWESOME dinner at a cash-only Thai place before-hand. Got along really well with his friend/boss. Keep in mind, my friend is mid-40s, his boss is probably 60. Lifelong research in childhood oncology. Incredibly good/well-known at what he does. Skier, former climber, big into music. We go to the show, drink a few beers throughout the night. YLT is amazing as always. We're the guys in the back of the main floor, against the railing. Cute girl next to me all show. YLT does their shows where they do a 1st set, 20ish minute break, 2nd set, then an encore. This girl was there by herself and I was like I'm going to do something different, let's try talking to her. So do that, it goes well. Between the 2nd set and encore I get her phone number. Now we're going on a date tomorrow night! I know nothing about her and am kind of excited about that? Also at the end of the night, my friends boss invited me to a concert at his house that is this Saturday. They've done 80+ shows and had some big names come through their house, I'm so excited.

What's funny about the girl/date situation is literally the day before I was telling kb and one of my other friends that people don't meet at concerts anymore and was very adamant about that, so fuck me. The other exciting part about all this is I really want to reintegrate more music and art and that side of things into my life, as awesome as running and climbing is, I don't want to be 1-dimensional in my interests and hobbies.