High's and Low's

Here's this week's High's and Low's...

High's--

• Learning how to download bootlegged live concerts of Over the Rhine, Radiohead, and Brandi Carlile.

• Making friends via Over the Rhine's Forum page, and thus acquiring some Trent Wagler bootlegs. (He opened the show for Over the Rhine when I saw them live in Dayton, OH in November.)
  
  
• Finishing a final draft of an essay for an anthology put together by my friend Hannah called Growing Up Churched.
  
  
• Getting my tickets in the mail to see Patty Griffin live at The Moore in Seattle next month.
  
  
• Eating Ben and Jerry's.
  
  
• My new weekly phone date with Renee, in which we determined that if I were a paint, I would be a bold orange, and if I were to date any superhero, I would date Spiderman.
  
  
• My weekly phone date with Clay in which we read Chapter One of Soul Survivor and discussed our most influential spiritual mentors.
  
  
• Being woken up at 11:37pm last night by a phone call from Sean in China. The first words he spoke were, "What time is it there? It's 3:30pm here." Then he boasted about how he knows more than I do, because he lives in the future. I pointed out that compared to him, I live permanently 4 1/2 years in the future.
  
  
• Arrested Development, Season One. My favorite part thus far is Tobias crying out, "There's dozens of us out there! Dozens!"
  
  
• Realizing the previously defunct Western Airlines is planning on getting up-and-running again in the near future and will be offering $59 one-way tickets to Phoenix. PTL!
  
  
• Only having three girls in Junior High girls at Youth Group on Wednesday. We could actually talk.
  
  

Low's--

• The horrors of something called "Caffeine Withdrawel." It's pretty much the worst headache I've ever experienced. So much so, that after 48 hours of being caffeine-free, I assuaged my wearied brain with a Diet Coke. I now know what it's like to be an addict.
  
  
• Realizing on Thursday morning that I'd forgotten to watch American Idol this week.
  
  
• Doing my hair really pretty this morning and then walking outside to have it drenched by heaps of white, wet, gobs of snow falling from the sky.
  
  
• Realizing that Starbuck's White Berryblossom Tea is not caffeine-free.
  
  
• Eating the last bit of leftover curry from last Friday's dinner, meaning that five meals later, I might have to cook something again.
  
  
• Every moment that led to turning in my 'churched' essay was a low point. The writing process is really horrible sometimes. Okay, all the time.
  
  
• Only having three girls in Junior High girls' at Youth Group on Wednesday. I have no idea where the other fifteen went, and I missed them.