Saturday

I had the honor of escorting Rochelle to her last APhiO banquet as an undergrad. This year it was at the Embassy Suites in Santa Ana. The restaurant in the hotel wasn’t the best place to hold a banquet since there wasn’t a central area for making announcements, giving out awards, or presenting a slideshow. And the dance floor was laughably small. But the food was good and this year, Rochelle and I did the best job of coordinating our outfits.

Monday

Rochelle was born 23 years ago on this day. To celebrate, we went to BJ’s for happy hour the night before. I also gave her Bean. For my birthday last month, she got me tickets to the Dashboard Confessional/Thrice/The Get Up Kids concert, which appropriately enough, fell on her birthday. I’m not too into Thrice or The Get Up Kids, but I did enjoy Dashboard’s music. I was looking forward to going to this concert when I got my tickets. Dashboard didn’t disappoint, although I wish that he stayed solo, instead of recruiting a band. He played both older acoustic songs from his solo efforts and songs from the latest album (which he recorded with a supporting band) and I just like him better with just him and his guitar. That’s the way I was introduced to him and that’s the way I like his music. So at the end of the night, the band played their “last” song, the lights went out and everyone started leaving. I’m thinking to myself, “They can’t leave without playing “The Best Deceptions” and “Hands Down”, but everyone was still filing out. I don’t know if they were satisfied with the show, or if they just forgot about those songs, or worst of all, didn’t even know about those songs, but they can’t leave without playing those songs. As we expected, they came back out and played the two songs that we came to hear. Wish I heard more acoustic stuff, but otherwise, another good concert.

Happy Birthday Shellie. Here’s to many more…

: Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional from the album So Impossible [EP]

Posted on June 8, 2004 in Uncategorized.