Go With The Flow

To be perfectly honest, I'm feeling pretty good right now.

I recently got my new camera! It's a Canon EOS 60D. I still have to work out the kinks, and I still have a lot to learn in terms of digital photography, but I'm really excited about it.

The last few weeks have been amazing for concerts. About two weeks ago, I drove to Pennsylvania after work to visit Mark. I got to see his new place, and then we took the train to Philadelphia for the Cut Copy concert. It was easily the best concert I've seen in quite a while. The crowd was incredible; everyone was singing and dancing and jumping and getting really into it. We took the train back and continued drinking until 3:30 in the morning. It was awesome. Also, I embarked on a spontaneous roadtrip to TCNJ after work last week to see a free, acoustic Anthony Green show. I actually had just found out about the concert that same day, but going was pretty much a no-brainer since Anthony Green is my hero and I've missed an opportunity to see him before. While at TCNJ, I had dinner with Jenny and even ran into my friend Michelle from my old job at Fort Monmouth (she used to go to TCNJ but has since graduated, so the odds of us seeing each other there is mind-blowing, really). I was standing front-and-center when Anthony Green came on stage; I could literally reach out and touch him if I wanted to. He made lots of conversation with the audience throughout the show, and I got to meet him afterwards. As we were taking a picture together, "Hysteria" by Muse started playing on the radio and we were both singing the lyrics. It pretty much made my life.

I attended a seminar in Virginia for work yesterday, and it was pretty good. I learned a lot about the company. For instance, Mitre apparently proposed a redesign of the airspace over the New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania metropolitan area so that more air traffic can flow thorough more efficiently, which the FAA eventually adopted. It's really fascinating stuff. My favorite part of the whole seminar, however, was networking with other employees from around the world. I finally met lots of cool Mitre people who are my age, but of course they live in the Washington D.C. area. I also made contacts from the west coast (Seattle, Portland, etc.) and had some really interesting conversations with those people. I'm now more inspired than ever to maybe move to the west coast someday.

Two weekends ago, I went to Atlantic City with Frankie for Beerfest, which was pretty solid. As for this weekend, I spent friday night at Rowan for Frankie's birthday. The EZX party on saturday was basically a Ramapo reunion, and I seriously have not had that much fun at a party in quite some time. A bunch of people crashed at my house that night, and we were all hanging out hungover the next day. It was the best. I want to live in a house with all of my friends and laugh at everything always.