Remember Remember The Week Of The 5th Of November

According to this part of this blog entry (But not in actuality, at the moment), today is Tuesday. By now, you all know what happens on Tuesday mornings. Why not just skip ahead to when I got there? Better yet, why not tell you all that I teleported there, just to make this part of the post a tad more interesting. You can't prove that I didn't... Anyways, I arrived a half an hour beforehand, as usual, to get prepared. Today, however, there was a substitute. I talked to her a bit, whilst getting all of my materials put together, asking her things like how the day was treating her thus far. She responded, telling me that it had been rather stressful, but just chalked that up to blaming it on it being Monday. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was Tuesday, she seemed stressed enough... The teaching part went well, although the students somehow got it in their heads that I'd be bringing them donuts next week. I'm somewhat displeased with whoever told them this; not because I'm some terrible person who likes to dash 2nd Grader's hopes and dreams to pieces, but because I can barely afford food for myself, let alone 20 other people. Oh well... Later on, after 5 grueling hours of attempting to learn the Spanish language, it was time to head to Tom's place for the ECG Bible study. We all had a rather enjoyable time, and after an in-depth look at both Romans 4 and Wii Tennis we decided to call it a night.

Wednesday, as my last class ended, I received a call from Kory, who informed me of his whereabouts, presently being in downtown Orlando. I'm always excited to see friends from the Fort, so I ventured downtown to meet up with them. For about an hour or so, Kory, Jess, Danielle, JM, and myself meandered about, downtown. They had come up, however, to see the Thrice & Brand New show down at the House of Blues, although, Kory just came along for the fun of it. So, everyone else left, leaving Kory and I to go entertain ourselves. We headed back to the apartment, met up with Chris, and just hung out for awhile, until the concert had ended. We headed over to Downtown Disney, to see everyone once more. Kory and Jess, however, were too tired to drive three and a half hours back home, so we invited them to stay at our place. Upon our return home, Kory and Jess made themselves well acquainted with our ramen supply. Intrigued by our Roku player, we all decided to watch some Dexter before going to bed. We realized it was time to call it a night, just about the time we all woke up at 3am, all having passed out during the show.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November. Thursday, I awoke to find Kory and Jess, out in the living room, enjoying more ramen, and more Dexter. I took the opportunity to finish my schoolwork for the day, so we could all hang out for awhile, before they had to leave. Once I had completed my homework, and they had had their fill of ramen and Dexter, we decided to check out Roadside America and see if there were any new odd destinations in Orlando. Much to our delight, we found a 4 person spaceship, and decided to check it out; definitely a good find!

From there, we decided to head over to Downtown Disney, and hang out for a bit longer. Tonight, however, was my turn to go to a concert; so, unfortunately, we had to head back to the apartment to drop them off, and so I could pick up my ticket. Though, to make the absurdly long ride through rush hour traffic, across Orlando, a little more bearable, we decided to do a little something to celebrate the 5th of November. We spotted a tall lifeguard chair, on the side of the road and decided to pull over. Wearing my Guy Fawkes mask, and with a sign, in hand, reading "Remember Remember The 5th of November," I climbed to the top, and sat for a little bit. Some people understood and and greeted me with smiles and waves, while others seemed to be in a profound state of bewilderment. Both were acceptable reactions.

Finally, the time came to go see Mute Math & As Tall As Lions. We bid farewell to Kory and Jess and headed over to the House of Blues. On the way there, we received a call from Robert, informing us that he had been in an accident. Thankfully, he was okay, and the person that hit him will be paying for the repairs on his car. We arrived at the show, and as we waited for it to begin, we ran into Danielle Sater and Matt Capps, which was a nice surprise! As Tall As Lions opened, playing an incredible setlist. After a brief intermission, Mute Math took the stage. I have been to many, many concerts, but I still stick to my opinion that Mute Math does the best live show that I have ever seen. The entire band switches instruments at random, at some points, all of them are playing on the same drum set, the lead singer is doing flips off of pretty much everything, the bassist, on occasion brings out the classical stand up bass, keytars are in great abundance, as well as people jamming on them atop their pianos, the guitarist is playing the distortion pedals, as though they were their own instrument, they let the crowd play some of their homemade instruments, the drummer is crowd surfing around (On his bass drum), large amounts of improvisation (by the entire band) are thrown in during solos, and pretty much the entire set is destroyed by the time they're finished. Basically, they do everything except play their chairs as instruments... no wait, they do that too... Reset!

Thankfully, Thursday was full of enough excitement to last us two days, because the enthralling events of Friday consisted of (after an excessive bit of schoolwork, mind you), not only, going to Walmart, but also (Brace yourself for this one), Target, as well. Yeah, I know you're jealous...

Zaijian,
-Nick, Chris, & Robert