bang theory

thursday night... ah, thursday night.

i was off of work, so i napped most of the day thursday because i had Plans for Thursday Night.

it started off with dinner at freeman's (mac n cheese, natch) followed by cupcakes. birga joined maryam and i for dinner but begged off for cupcakes because they raised their prices of the mac and cheese but gave you three tons more. and she was full.

anyhow, after cupcakes, maryam and i wandered a few blocks over to sin-e (sin-e!) for a concert. which concert? why, it was world leader pretend, silly! they were playing their first gig since hurricane katrina (they're from NOLA) at the cmj music festival in new york. so i got to hear them perform, finally - after missing them several times in several places.

jake was there too.

jake and maryam aren't this blurry in person, but i was having shutter speed issues.

and they were

AMAZING.

they're such rock stars that most of the pictures are blurry because they're busy rocking, you see. and i couldn't get a wide shot with all of them either. (click through to see more pictures.)

(go buy the CD, by the way)

and then i got to see and hang out with the incredible, wonderful, lovely rockstar matty.

good heavens, i have missed that man. one of the finest humans i know and a rockstar through and through. next time however, i shan't go 4 years between visits with him. then, maryam and i (in true groupie fashion) partied with the band after the show. it was bizarre because it's just MATT but then i realized that everyone that wanted to talk to him and the rest of the guys were female. i didn't want to be the groupie, but i can't help that i'm female, so i hung out with 2 other friends from college,

sean t. (totally forgot about his existence - sorry sean!) and melissa (i love melissa! she's also matty's sister).

we were out too late and i had a hard time packing on friday. but i did it.

and "bang theory" totally rocks - go to the website to listen to it, please.