great weekend or the greatest weekend??

so this past weekend was quite possibly one of my favorite so far this school year
it starts off just like most fridays for me, the typical friday meeting for my job at rcc, even though we are trying to have these meetings every other weekend, i have always seen them as being sort of a begining point for the weekend, after that, im free for the next 72 (or so) hours to basically do whatever i want. so like the typical computer nerd that i am, i start it off by playing a computer game, more specifically, starcraft. now, what makes this even more interesting is the fact that i have finally figured our how to get starcraft up and running on my linux computer (a major feat for me at least) so after a few hours of playing that, i get an instant message asking about going to someone's room to see a movie. i think the first movie they were watching was something that i wasn't interested in so i passed on that and went back to my game. a few hours later though, i got another instant message saying that they were going to watch "Lucky Number Slevin" (i think thats how you spell it) so i decided to go see that, ive never seen it before and i have always wanted to. and talk about an amazing movie, this was the type of movie that did not stop until the very end, i was sucked into it from the first 2 minutes where someone gets shot, its one of those movies where you can try and figure out what is going on, but you never will be able to, it was great.
so before i went up to watch the movie, i figured i would bring one of my own to share and see if they wanted to watch it afterward. the movie i brought, "SLC Punk" one of my favorite movies. unfortunately, after Lucky Number Slevin, everyone was pretty tired and everyone went to bed, so no SLC Punk for me that night.
saturday started off typically, i woke up at about 12, i showered, sat in my room playing on the interweb for a while, and then katy asks if i wanted to go to breakfast with her and her roommate and some other people, i figure that i havent had breakfast and i was quite hungry and also contimplating on going anyways, i figured id go and enjoy a nice sundial breakfast. the only problem though was that the sundial stops serving breakfast at 2 now, instead of 3 from what i remembered, so i was quite upset about that.
so when i got back to my room after my lunch which was supposed to be breakfast, i went once again into a battle for survival in another mission in starcraft. i was doing quite well also, but i got to the point where my eyes were glazed over so i had to stop. and what more to relieve myself the eyestrain of a game like that?? web design!!
from trying to first figure out virtual hosts in apache (which i was able to do) to then trying to get my design to fit my css layout, and then realizing that it would not work, it was quite a fun experience . so after a few hours fiddling with that, i find out that kelly is watching blades of glory, so i went up there and watched the end of it (i missed my favorite part tho)
so after that, i come back to my room and play around with some stuff, watch tv, check out digg, and then check my facebook, i find that roseann wrote on my wall, and it was a quote from SLC Punk (the movie i was wanting to watch the night before) so i got all excited and replied back. then when i see she was online, i make plans and go off to her apartment to watch the movie
as always, it was a great time with a great movie and great company. after that, me and her pretty much talked for nearly 2 hours, about everything from grade school to friends to relationships, it was really nice, i never really have many friends whom i can talk to like that, and its always nice for someone like me to be able to have decent conversation with someone, and to know who i am talking to actually cares about what i have to say. ive realized that we have been through so much already, and its all been for the best because we are such good friends now and that is a good thing.
so after the kinda scary walk home at 2 o'clock at night, i came back to my room where my roommate was asleep, i really wish i didnt wake him up, i always get paranoid like that when i come back late and hes asleep. but i got on my computer and talked to roseann even more over instant messenger. and when she decided to go to bed, i got an invitation to go upstairs and see queen of the damned. so i went and watched that until like 4 when i got way too tired to do anything more
so i went back and went to bed, once again hoping to not wake up my roommate. i didnt get up till like 12:30 maybe and i got up and showered. when i was getting dressed, i got an instant message from chris saying that we were prolly gonna be leaving at about 3 to go to columbus to see strike anywhere. the reason for this was because dustin had some stuff to do on the way and we had some other people to pick up
so after a few hours of running around the columbus area and picking up people and eating food, we finally got to the venue and let me tell you, it was a quaint little joint, i dont know, thats the only way i can think to explain it. it was kinda small but it was big enough. it reminded me of a mix between the HiFi in cleveland and Howards in BG except a lot nicer than the both. thats the thing i noticed about columbus, everything is just nicer than cleveland, it made me kinda jealous in a way. but thats beside the point cause strike anywhere was amazing!
the show was seriously wonderful. everyone in the band was just really cool, thomas, their lead singer was walking around talking to everyone before and after they played
there were three songs that they played that stuck out to me
the first one was Chalkline: the song is sort of a womens issues type of song, more or less being about how women today are expected to be and act a specific way. i dont know, it was really nice the way thom introduced the song, it struck me how amazing the song is.
the second song that stuck out to me was Allies: this song is about matthew shepard, didnt even know that. upon listening to the chorus of words that was being screamed at the top of everyones lungs, the true meaning came out to me. i also figured that it might be starting to become a sort of cliche to write and sing songs like this (gay rights) because the gay community has started to get just a little bit of much deservered acceptacnce, but nothing near what they should have, and thats what songs like this try to achieve, they remind people of the tragic things that have happened out of the ignorance of others, and they keep reminding people of that so that they are forced to learn from it. i find nothing wrong with that, being forced to learn from other people's ignorance.
the third song which stuck out to me was Sunset on 32nd: of course i would say this, its just an amazing song, i have already written why i love it, so i will not try to repeat myself. it was just nice to be there singing along with everyone and enjoying myself during that song and all the rest
well, after the show we stuck around and talked to the band a bit as they were breaking down their own stuff (no roadies, very noble) and then we enjoyed a 2 and a half hour drive back to BG.
so there it is, a great weekend. first for me in a long time, i just wish that the next few will be just as great, but that will be almost like asking too much, so i will still be satisfied with what i have coming my way.
so for one of my longest blog posts on any of my previous blogs, i will leave you all with that, hope you had as much fun reading it as i had writing it