the 80s, paper writing, and the ties that bind

So, ladies and gents, I haven't posted because, well, I've been busy writing 16 page papers (in 4 hours or less! I'm a machine! ARRRRGGGHHH), response papers, and other stuff. Last Thursday I had a special "student employee" lunch bash at UNCG because, well, I'm special, and was nominated for grad. student employee of the year. Of course I didn't win b/c a WGS grad won last year, and well, it just wouldn't be fair if our dept. won again! But the darndest thing is, I didn't even win a door prize, and they had darn good ones too. Poopie. Friday night I went with a friend to a less than stellar concert though I'm sure he liked what we did here; I talked him in to leaving to get a beer and we sat and talked instead. If you ask me, that was way more fun than some weak band (who knows, they might've been good; I like melody though, not just screaming into a microphone). But who am I? I have no "indie cred" as it were. But it was super fun.
Saturday I researched and did "prep" work for my big 'ole fish 16 pager, and hung out; Sunday, or Jesus Resurrection Day, I rode my bike, wrote my paper, and chilled. It was quite creepy actually since the entire neighborhood seemed to have gone from the rapture or they were all just praying to Jesus, thanking him for dying and then not. Whatever. If you have the time, you should look up the REAL reason for Easter: aka pagan holiday of the spring equinox and uber fertility via the bunny (you know the expression, "doing it like bunnies?" Apparently those hoppy, floppy bunnies are real horny fur balls ). Well, I suppose the spring DOES bring out the fertility aka the sex b/c there are like 5 pregnant women in the Foust building alone. Creepy.

In addition, I found this cool site about the '80s cover band The Breakfast Club that I really wanna see. They'll be playing at Greene Street on May 13. I really really want to go. They also published a wicked cool link with kick ass 80s games like Tetris, PacMan, Centipede, etc. Check it out, it's super cool. I had fun playing Tetris. I love the '80s!

Okay, so let's take a minute to go over some of SAB's super cool fav '80s bands, some cheesey and some really cool. Huey Lewis and the News, Pat Benatar, Michael Jackson, the band that sang "I'll tumble for ya" and others that I've been listening to much more recently like the Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Morrisey (from the smiths), REM, Depeche Mode, and the really cool New Wave band channel on Sirius satellite radio. Don't you love my pic? It's wicked great. I've always thought that I was born a decade too late; instead of 1980 I should've been born in 1970 so I could be a teenager in the '80s. I could've worn all the great clothes and been knee deep in the new wave hits of the '80s. I'm feeling very nostalgic lately, and I'm sure it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that my 26th birthday (egads!) is quickly approaching.

I feel like just yesterday I was 18, 16, 21, 22, etc. I suppose it will always be this way.
Anyhoo, 'nuff for now.

What do you feel like?