So I never wrote anything about my trip to Chicago trip, it's just been so crazy.
Well, it was awesome. But is that really surprising, at all? God I love everything about that city and pretty much everyone there.
The drive there was longer than I remember, but I guess 12 hours is never really a short trip. I didn't think about the fact that I'd been in the sun so I will hot and sun burned by the time I got to the hotel...which was a little scary...the entire first floor was gutted for renovation so I was certain I would be murdered. But I checked in and took a nice long nap. Then it was date night! A guy friend of mine and I agreed we'd get together for dinner and perhaps a sleep over. I forgot though that 5 months of flirting via text message doesn't always translate to the same chemistry in person. Also, I was exhausted and starved by the time he showed up so I don't think I came off as very excited when he picked me up. But I forgot that men in the Midwest have MANNERS. He was all chivalry, opening the car door for me and closing it...opening the door at Portillo's for me (omg Portillo's I miss you so much). Dinner was nice, but a little awkward. Most of my friend in Chicago are guys in bands so I felt like I was just yammering on about handsome handsome men... but I was just talking about my friends. After we went to dinner he came back to my hotel with me, but no sleep over happened. He came to my room and we talked for a really long time about just music and different stuff. But then he brought up...the boy. And I know he hates him and hates how he treats me and I almost started crying because he brought up some valid points, but it's just not that simple sometimes. No sleep over and he went home at like 2am. Little disappointing but...maybe for the best.
Spent Wednesday hanging out with Pam and Olivia at Elmhurst College...more Portillo's for lunch. Then another nap and then.....to Bottom Lounge to see Into It.Over It., Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls. Once again, played the invisible harmonica like a boss. Frank Turner is seriously fucking amazing, I don't know how anyone wouldn't love him. At the end of the show he yelled, "I want to see you all dancing!" which of course made me think of Stubhy and Lucky Boys Confusion and Sam was like, "SERIOUSLY!? DID HE JUST SAY THAT!?" So laughs all around. Got to see my friend Mike at the show and met his new gf, she was super sweet.
Thursday was touring at Roosevelt. It was raining and then they didn't have me listed for the tour. So they gave me an undergraduate tour. It was a beautiful school and I'm definitely going to apply! Then, when I returned to my hotel...STEPH WAS THERE!!!!! Needless to say I was reunited with my best friend for the first time since May. I absolutely cried my eyes out. Then we went to get food and then...TO THE ZOO! We went to the Dolphin show and we got splashed but it was super fun.
Then we went to dinner with all the Zoo folk and the food was aaaaaaammmmaaaaaaazzzzzzing. Seriously, foodgasm. But then I started getting all of these texts from this girl who is friends with THE BOY and how she wanted to know when the last time I had talked/texted/facebooked/tweeted/emailed him was and if I was the one who drove him home in May and all this shit...leading me to believe that she has definitely also been sleeping with him. Which, I kind of figured I wasn't the only one (especially since I'm not there much) but it still hurt to have it in my face and knowing I'd have to see her the next two days. So Steph and I finally went home and slept all of the hours.
Friday was touring at The Adler School and it was WONDERFUL. I can't wait to apply. I hope I get an interview and accepted into the school, it would be AMAZING. Then I took Steph to get her hair done and then it was time to get ready and go see our favorite assholes play at Beat Kitchen Bar. No one knew that Steph was in town except for me so everyone flipped out when they saw her. But more importantly, I GOT TO HUG PHIL KOSCH! Omg I love him, he even tweeted we could hug the day before...and we did!
We embraced so many times it was great, and I saw Pat and hugged him. Finally Meesh and Sam showed up and there were hugs and tears and it was beautiful. Felt so good to be reunited with my friends.
Then I saw the boy he looked so cute but I couldn't bring myself to go talk to him even though we locked eyes and he obviously saw me. Then I ran into the girl who wouldn't stop talking about how crazy the boy was. Well, fucking duh. I knew that already. Right as she was like "I mean we are friends with the same guys and I've been friends with them for so long but then I've hooked up with some of them and...." and I just wanted to be like "NO NO NO DO NOT WANT TO KNOW YOU'VE HAD SEX WITH THE BOY I'M IN LOVE WITH!". But luckily Sam saved the day and was like "Super Happy Fun Club is going on soon, you want to come up front?" and I bolted. Super Happy Fun Club was amazing...the boy looked adorable while he played but I also was like so embarrassed every time he opened his mouth to talk. When the set was over and we talked he talked with me a little bit but acted like he barely even knew me and not like we've had sleep overs. He asked where I was staying and told me to text him so we can hang out....need less to say I texted him twice and all I got was "Thanks. We're still loading out..." so I didn't get to see him and it sucked.
Saturday....AM TAXI DAY! I would write more about this, but I'll be honest my friend Cody got me so piss drunk at the show I couldn't even enjoy AM Taxi covering The Clash as much as I wanted because I was so drunk off Vodka and Diet cokes that Cody was buying me. I know I saw my friend Jay's wife and my friend Luke's girlfriend, but other than that it starts to blurr. I know my friend Johnny showed up and omg I hadn't seen him since April and he left AM Taxi. Need less to say I gave him ALL the hugs. I even pushed him against the wall and licked his chest (Yes, I was super drunk) and I remember my friend Phil dancing on me during AM Taxi's set. And Chris, the drummer of SHFC, was at the show and I kept hugging him and telling him how great they were and then I asked if the boy was there...thank god Chris said he wasn't or else I probably would have been drunk and crying at him asking him why he treated me so bad and why he never talked to me even though I loved him or something crazy. Then we went down to the floor (Phil put us in the VIP Bar at Double Door, hollerrrr) and I tackled EVERYONE with hugs. Everyone. I'm pretty sure I scared everyone. I know I was yelling in Brett's face and I can remember Pat just looking fucking pissed as I was like "OMG PAT I LOVE YOU"....don't feed Kyla vodka. Oh, and apparently in the car ride home I kept yelling how Phil rubbed his crotch on me and I loved it and refused to kiss Cody so I slapped him in the face. I SHOULD NOT DRINK.
And these are some tweets from the day after...
And then on Sunday I returned home to PA.
This was me all dressed up...
Stubhy's bird penis.
Too much leg showing on this one...
Super Happy Phil Club
My friends are weirdos.
Well, it was awesome. But is that really surprising, at all? God I love everything about that city and pretty much everyone there.
The drive there was longer than I remember, but I guess 12 hours is never really a short trip. I didn't think about the fact that I'd been in the sun so I will hot and sun burned by the time I got to the hotel...which was a little scary...the entire first floor was gutted for renovation so I was certain I would be murdered. But I checked in and took a nice long nap. Then it was date night! A guy friend of mine and I agreed we'd get together for dinner and perhaps a sleep over. I forgot though that 5 months of flirting via text message doesn't always translate to the same chemistry in person. Also, I was exhausted and starved by the time he showed up so I don't think I came off as very excited when he picked me up. But I forgot that men in the Midwest have MANNERS. He was all chivalry, opening the car door for me and closing it...opening the door at Portillo's for me (omg Portillo's I miss you so much). Dinner was nice, but a little awkward. Most of my friend in Chicago are guys in bands so I felt like I was just yammering on about handsome handsome men... but I was just talking about my friends. After we went to dinner he came back to my hotel with me, but no sleep over happened. He came to my room and we talked for a really long time about just music and different stuff. But then he brought up...the boy. And I know he hates him and hates how he treats me and I almost started crying because he brought up some valid points, but it's just not that simple sometimes. No sleep over and he went home at like 2am. Little disappointing but...maybe for the best.
Spent Wednesday hanging out with Pam and Olivia at Elmhurst College...more Portillo's for lunch. Then another nap and then.....to Bottom Lounge to see Into It.Over It., Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls. Once again, played the invisible harmonica like a boss. Frank Turner is seriously fucking amazing, I don't know how anyone wouldn't love him. At the end of the show he yelled, "I want to see you all dancing!" which of course made me think of Stubhy and Lucky Boys Confusion and Sam was like, "SERIOUSLY!? DID HE JUST SAY THAT!?" So laughs all around. Got to see my friend Mike at the show and met his new gf, she was super sweet.
Thursday was touring at Roosevelt. It was raining and then they didn't have me listed for the tour. So they gave me an undergraduate tour. It was a beautiful school and I'm definitely going to apply! Then, when I returned to my hotel...STEPH WAS THERE!!!!! Needless to say I was reunited with my best friend for the first time since May. I absolutely cried my eyes out. Then we went to get food and then...TO THE ZOO! We went to the Dolphin show and we got splashed but it was super fun.
Then we went to dinner with all the Zoo folk and the food was aaaaaaammmmaaaaaaazzzzzzing. Seriously, foodgasm. But then I started getting all of these texts from this girl who is friends with THE BOY and how she wanted to know when the last time I had talked/texted/facebooked/tweeted/emailed him was and if I was the one who drove him home in May and all this shit...leading me to believe that she has definitely also been sleeping with him. Which, I kind of figured I wasn't the only one (especially since I'm not there much) but it still hurt to have it in my face and knowing I'd have to see her the next two days. So Steph and I finally went home and slept all of the hours.
Friday was touring at The Adler School and it was WONDERFUL. I can't wait to apply. I hope I get an interview and accepted into the school, it would be AMAZING. Then I took Steph to get her hair done and then it was time to get ready and go see our favorite assholes play at Beat Kitchen Bar. No one knew that Steph was in town except for me so everyone flipped out when they saw her. But more importantly, I GOT TO HUG PHIL KOSCH! Omg I love him, he even tweeted we could hug the day before...and we did!
We embraced so many times it was great, and I saw Pat and hugged him. Finally Meesh and Sam showed up and there were hugs and tears and it was beautiful. Felt so good to be reunited with my friends.
Then I saw the boy he looked so cute but I couldn't bring myself to go talk to him even though we locked eyes and he obviously saw me. Then I ran into the girl who wouldn't stop talking about how crazy the boy was. Well, fucking duh. I knew that already. Right as she was like "I mean we are friends with the same guys and I've been friends with them for so long but then I've hooked up with some of them and...." and I just wanted to be like "NO NO NO DO NOT WANT TO KNOW YOU'VE HAD SEX WITH THE BOY I'M IN LOVE WITH!". But luckily Sam saved the day and was like "Super Happy Fun Club is going on soon, you want to come up front?" and I bolted. Super Happy Fun Club was amazing...the boy looked adorable while he played but I also was like so embarrassed every time he opened his mouth to talk. When the set was over and we talked he talked with me a little bit but acted like he barely even knew me and not like we've had sleep overs. He asked where I was staying and told me to text him so we can hang out....need less to say I texted him twice and all I got was "Thanks. We're still loading out..." so I didn't get to see him and it sucked.
Saturday....AM TAXI DAY! I would write more about this, but I'll be honest my friend Cody got me so piss drunk at the show I couldn't even enjoy AM Taxi covering The Clash as much as I wanted because I was so drunk off Vodka and Diet cokes that Cody was buying me. I know I saw my friend Jay's wife and my friend Luke's girlfriend, but other than that it starts to blurr. I know my friend Johnny showed up and omg I hadn't seen him since April and he left AM Taxi. Need less to say I gave him ALL the hugs. I even pushed him against the wall and licked his chest (Yes, I was super drunk) and I remember my friend Phil dancing on me during AM Taxi's set. And Chris, the drummer of SHFC, was at the show and I kept hugging him and telling him how great they were and then I asked if the boy was there...thank god Chris said he wasn't or else I probably would have been drunk and crying at him asking him why he treated me so bad and why he never talked to me even though I loved him or something crazy. Then we went down to the floor (Phil put us in the VIP Bar at Double Door, hollerrrr) and I tackled EVERYONE with hugs. Everyone. I'm pretty sure I scared everyone. I know I was yelling in Brett's face and I can remember Pat just looking fucking pissed as I was like "OMG PAT I LOVE YOU"....don't feed Kyla vodka. Oh, and apparently in the car ride home I kept yelling how Phil rubbed his crotch on me and I loved it and refused to kiss Cody so I slapped him in the face. I SHOULD NOT DRINK.
And these are some tweets from the day after...
And then on Sunday I returned home to PA.
This was me all dressed up...
Stubhy's bird penis. Too much leg showing on this one... Super Happy Phil Club My friends are weirdos.