a continuation of summer, really.

it's a sunday night before classes at 10:55 pm -- quite a typical time for me to be doing all of the homework i failed to do this weekend. but i'm not doing that, and it's not because i did all of my reading and writing and everything else on time; it's just cause i can't get myself to do anything. as my work- and happy-hour-filled summer came to an end a few weeks ago, so too, thought i, would my un-disciplined life-style -- not so. apparently, even as classes begin and professors demand papers, my mind doesn't render it worthy of its efforts. i really don't hate it, though. i spent the entire weekend outside: friday in washington square park, saturday at the pier on the west side with a few friends, and today frolicking around the east village. i also finally hung the set list to the Traveling Circus and Medicine Show today in my apartment. The Traveling Circus show was the concert put on by michael franti & spearhead, counting crows, and augustana for the past several months. it came to a close last week, and my sister and i were fortunate enough to bear witness to one of the last concerts of the tour. what's more is that it was in central park! and what's EVEN more, as i alluded to earlier, was that the security guy (who we naturally became friends with as we were right up against the stage) handed the official setlist of the show to me after the concert. a pretty sweet souvenir if you ask me. the thing that most struck me about the concert was the palpable energy between the three main guys: michael franti (spearhead), adam duritz (counting crows), and dan layus (augustana). i specifically remember a moment during the last song they played (which happened to be woody guthrie's 'this land is your land') in which they all three sang into the same mic, looked at each other, put their arms around each other, whispered something i wish i had heard, and laughed. i could really see the love between them. this was also the most i've ever seen adam have fun on stage out of all of the 8 crows concerts i've been to, so i was happy. i'm attaching some sweet pics, compliments of my fellow crows fan, deb, who is a way more legit fan than i could ever hope to be.

september's half over!!!!....

and i've only posted once. i suck, i know. i'm uber excited to write about the crows concert, but i don't want to rush and post right now, so this weekend i promise!

thus begins september....and everything after.

cliche to post my first public blog on september first, given my blog's name? probably, but i couldn't resist. for those of you who don't know, the blog's title is an allusion to counting crows's first album, august and everything after. something about the sound of the word september, coupled with the beginning of a new academic year, seemed reason enough to modify the album's title. this fall's blog posts will be mostly my thoughts amid the hustle and bustle of manhattan, possibly the west coast, and some areas in between. in the spring i'll be studying in london, so i'm glad i'll have this to blog the season's adventures.

this summer's been like no other for me: first apartment in manhattan, first paid internship in about six months, first collaboration with a novelist, and first season i've wound up with more money in my bank acount than i began with (!). my sister, kristin, returned from europe in june, so i spent time with her, and most of my friends from school spent at least a month or so in manhattan. going to the US open tonight, counting crows concert in central park on thursday, and running the 5K "run to remember" race for 9/11 on sunday. definitely an excellent way to wrap up the summer.