I guess you can tell from the recent dearth of posts that I’ve started back to school again.  It always takes me a few weeks to settle in to a new schedule and figure out how to breathe again - I spend the first few weeks alternately being lazy and panicking at how fast time is slipping away from me.  I’m well into it now, though, and feeling a bit more steady.

Speaking of Steady, thanks to a friend who is apparently The Hold Steady’s biggest fan (…groupie…stalker, perhaps?) I got my hands on a ticket to go see them at Lee’s Palace last night.  The show was marvellous.  Craig Finn is an energetic, quirky frontman - he never stops grinning and he seems to be having a personal conversation with every member of the audience.  Of course I’m deaf now, but I had a great night and met a new Scrabble opponent, so the sacrifice was worth it.  Oh yeah, and some chick beside me spent about twenty minutes trying to shove her way through to the front of the stage by leaning on me with her boobs and jumping up and down.