World’s most pathetic blogger January 9, 2008
Posted by krislynch in Uncategorized.Tags: Erie Zoo, Rufus Wainwright
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I’m hands down the world’s most pathetic blogger. I haven’t blogged at all in months, and I’m only blogging NOW because I’m waiting for some software to finish installing.
So…what’s new? There MUST be something new after months of doing only-God-knows-what-but-it-sure-as-heck-wasn’t-blogging. So let’s see…
1. July was nice and quiet and warm and awesome. We got a new boss so that was pretty upsetting at the time, but things have settled down and going well.
2. Family visited in August so that was swell. I don’t see my brother and his wife very often – maybe twice a year!
3. I took some cool pictures at the Erie Zoo in August.
4. August must have been a good month because I also saw my first Rufus Wainwright concert and met him for the second time that year. See more pictures – including one of myself with Rufus.
5. This fall and winter I’ve spent a lot of time with work projects – specifically some site redesign projects that I’m pretty proud of – such as http://www.eriecountyelections.com, http://www.digerie.com, http://www.goerie.com/varsity and http://www.goerie.com/showcase.
6. I met a nice guy a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving so we’ve been seeing each other for over 2 months now. It’s going well and even though we’re very different, we both care about each other very much.
7. I took 11 days of vacation for the holidays so that downtime was a blast. I slept in, putzed around and goofed off, went out several nights…it was just great. For once I didn’t even really about work or do anything on my notebook during that time that was even remotely work-related.
Well now we’re into the new year and things are getting back to normal. I can already see 2008 shaping up to be much better than 2007 started out to be, but who knows what the year will bring?
Philly w/ Rufus May 20, 2007
Posted by krislynch in Uncategorized.Tags: Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, Rufus Wainwright
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Friday I drove to Philadelphia to meet Rufus Wainwright. It was a 7 hour drive and I was really wiped out by the time I found a hotel room, but I got to meet Rufus, get my CD signed and hear him sing in person.
I got there late Friday night so I drove around a while through Bryn Mawr so I could locate the Borders store. I needed to find a hotel and wanted to make sure I knew where I was going the next morning. I did find a hotel room, very overpriced for what I needed but I couldn’t very well meet Rufus without some sleep and much needed primping. I barely slept at all, unfortunately.
Villanova was welcoming graduates and the campus was all decked out for the following day’s graduation ceremonies.
Just down the road is Bryn Mawr, a quaint area with countless unique shops. I saw couples going into bars such as The Grog and Maloney’s on a Friday night – and noticed all the women were really decked out in little black cocktail dresses. So, even if I had been up for going out somewhere, I wouldn’t have – not in my jeans and t-shirt.
I found a Ferrari / Mazarati dealership so I stopped to take some photos for my friend Jeff since he’s a real car nut and we don’t really see many of those car makes at home. I took some really good ones, then accidentally deleted them the next morning playing with my camera.
I got to Borders very early the next morning equipped with my Starbucks coffee, crumb cake and loaded iPod. I sat in my car for hours listening to TWIT podcasts and watched other people show up.
Once we were able to go into the store, we immediately grabbed our signing passes and found out where the stage would be placed. My initial plans to work on my notebook and grab more coffee were foiled when I found out the cafe was being renovated and their TMobile hotspot service was way too expensive to be so lousy. I browsed for books, worked offline on my notebook, listened to iTunes and talked with fans as they showed up. Rufus has very friendly fans. It could be that we all feel a kinship for having discovered Rufus since he’s not in the mainstream.
Rufus was wonderful. Adorable, personable, funny and of course, insanely talented. It was great to see and hear him in person. Since I’d gotten there so early, I was able to sit up front.
He sang ‘Art Teacher’ to warm up his voice, then played ‘Sanssouci’ on guitar. He finished with ‘Going to a Town’ after talking about why he wrote the song, his feelings towards Philadelphia and how he thought the founding fathers would feel about our country’s current state of affairs. He was warm and friendly and funny – just as I would have expected.
After his performance, I was able to meet him and have him sign my CD. Photos with him weren’t allowed because of the size of the crowd, so that was disappointing – especially since the Borders staff kept the line moving unnecessarily fast. Several fans were obviously confused by why the staff handled things so poorly. In fact, even Rufus himself seemed confused by their behavior. In spite of all of this, it was still great to be able to meet him in person.
My videos are terrible and some of my photos were lousy, but here are a couple that turned out OK.
The trip home was made much longer since I’d barely had any sleep. At one point I started falling asleep driving so I pulled off an exit to rest my eyes for a few minutes and woke up about an hour later. I grabbed some coffee and was OK for the rest of the trip home.
This morning tickets went on sale for an August Rufus Wainwright concert. I bought them right away and managed to get 3rd row center section tickets.
But for now, it’s good to be back home with my boys taking it easy until I have to return to work tomorrow.
