Music

Last Sunday Nithin, Kelley, Kelley's roommate, and I all drove down to Tampa to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform for their Stadium Arcadium tour. For those of you who don't know, it is a 4 hour drive from Tallahassee to Tampa. We arrived there at around 5:00 PM and doors opened at 6:30 PM, so we walked from the venue to look for a restaurant. After finding a ton, we eventually decided on Bennigan's, where we received some of the worst service ever. After that we headed back in time for the opening band Gnarls Barkley, who were okay, but I only knew their famous song, and just weren't able to pump me up for the greatness I was about to witness.

The four of us had split the cost of joining the fan club in order to buy tickets during the pre-sale, which was a wonderful idea because we were only a few rows back and to the side of the stage. They played for an hour and a half straight! There are only a handful of bands that I have seen (U2, Crosby Steels Nash and Young, Nine Inch Nails, and Foo Fighters) that can outperform the Chili Peppers, but even they would have struggled that night. Last time I saw the Peppers the show was better, but that was only because they were touring with Foo Fighters and I am a bigger fan of their old music since I have been listening to it since I was 14. They only played a few of their older songs since their latest CD has so many new ones.

The drive home started at 11:30 PM, and as I mentioned before it is a 4 hour drive... I downed two energy drinks, and made everyone stay up to play 20 questions. 3 hours of 20 questions and we still didn't get very good at guessing, maybe we were choosing items that were too specific. I stumped them on:

1. The Oscar Mayer Weiner Truck
2. a particular exit we passed on 75
3. a Hydrogen Molecule (h2o particularly)

These, along with a few others. It was quite fun! Once we got back to Tallahassee I had to drop everyone off, so I didn't get home till nearly 4:00 AM, I still wired from my energy drinks, so told myself I was going to stay up since I had class in the morning anyway. Well, that didn't work too well, I made it to 7:30 but then passed out, sleeping through my classes until late in the afternoon. I should have bought more energy drinks, oh well, next time...

Yesterday I had my first Compilers test, it went well, and I am hoping it went really well, but I think it just went plain-old well. There were 2 questions I wasn't sure on, but other than that I knew what I was doing. I actually figured out that question 2 had no answer and so got everyone credit for it, it would have been nice to get twice as much credit as them for figuring it out, but hey, I'm not greedy. I also turned in my first assignment for that class, it was pretty fun, we had to create a pascal-like language to java byte code compiler. Now all I have for the next few days is to start working on my assignment for Analytical Methods "oh boy!"

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