First, let me say that I'm already sick of this fall weather. It was 34º when I left the apartment this morning. I had to wear my winter coat to class. What a drag, Michigan.

My macroeconomics class today was even longer and boringer (is that a word?) than yesterday's micro class. I can honestly say that I stayed awake throughout the entire class period though. It was just very... blah. Economists are just way too in love with graphs, that's all there is to it.

My screenwriting class was cancelled today, which explains why there isn't the usual ten page script post this week. Don't worry though... I'll have ten more, plus a complete re-write of the first 40 pages by next Thursday. I know you're all waiting with baited breath.

Work was attack of the labels again today. I took a huge ass box chocked full of the stupid newsletters, and spent a good chunk of my seven-hour day slapping our "sorry we f-ed" up labels on them. What a P.I.T.A. Hopefully I'll be done with these things by next week though, and won't have to worry about the next newsletter for another six weeks or so.

Well, tomorrow is the first home MSU football game since our downward spiral started three weeks ago with the game against Michigan. Hopefully the wheels haven't totally fallen off the wagon yet. I mean, for the love of Pete, we're playing Northwestern on Saturday, so hopefully a W isn't too much to ask.

It sounds like Stef and I are going to go hang out at my dad's for a bit on Sunday. Not really sure what we'll do there other than relax, but right now that's sounding pretty good. Then next Monday (maybe Tuesday? we're still not sure) is the U2 concert at the Palace. Sigh. I can't wait.

Oh, yeah. Tonight Stef and I are going to see a play on campus at the Fairchild theater. I forget the name offhand, but I'll have an update tomorrow.

Seacrest out.

What do you know? Another sunny day, and another day at the office.

My Comm lab met again today, and was a complete waste of time like usual. Still, I guess it beats going to class. Microeconomics was even more boring than usual, and I found myself nodding off a couple times during the lecture. I can only take so many graphs and producer/consumer surplus equations in one sitting before my brain shuts down.

Work was a D-R-A-G all day today because we found an error in the newsletter... after printing 2,700 copies of it. Yep, the woman who wrote the front page article got the date wrong for our annual fundraising dinner, even though I got it right on a sidebar graphic. Ultimately it's my responsibility to catch errors like that since I'm officially the editor of this fine publicaiton, but I was a little peeved that, of the million nit-picky suggestions I got from other staff members, no one managed to catch this. Grrr. So, that left poor Kim and I spending most of the day putting tacky little correction stickers on the bottom of the newsletters because I guess we just assume that readers are too stupid to figure out the correct date -- even though it's right in big bold letters on the side of the page, on our website, and will be coming to people in the mail with their save-the-date cards and invitations. Grrr. Honestly though, I'm really just mad at myself for letting such a stupid error slip through the cracks. What a pain.

Well, tonight will hopefully be a nice, quiet, low-key evening at the apartment with my girl. Stefy is working on a resume this week for her career class, so I'm going to help her spruce it up and look pretty. I guess that's it for now.

Well, it's finally nice outside again today. And guess where I spent the afternoon? Yep... at work. I don't know what the deal was today, but the clock just seemed to tick a little slower for some reason.

The good news today was that my film class won't meet again until next Thursday. Originally, we were just going to get next Tuesday off to work on our 40 page revision, but Prof. Wray realized that it was pointless to also make us come on Thursday and turn in 10 pages that we'd be revising for the next class meeting anyway... without getting any comments from him. So, he just decided to axe this Thursday's session as well. Sweet!

Other than that, it was a pretty boring day. I'm back listening to U2 full tilt in preparation for next week's show. I mean, it's pretty much the norm anyway, but I'm trying to reach back for all of the oddball songs that might end up on the setlist. I want to be prepared.

Wow. That's all I can say, really. I mean, Paul Freakin' McCartney. Fourteenth row. It was almost a surreal experience, but it was just absolutely FANTASTIC. He opened with "The Magical Mystery Tour," and then went right into "Flaming Pie," which was kind of cool considering that I was just about the only person in our section who knew the lyrics. The show completely spanned the entire McCartney catalogue, with lots of Beatles, Wings, Solo, and brand new stuff to fill the insanely great two and a half hour set.

If there was one thing worth complaining about, it was the drunk-ass morons sitting all around us. There was a really weird group of people scattered all around our row who knew each other, and were unbelieveably obnoxious. One dude in particular was ridiculously tall, wide, smelly, and loud. At one point during the show when Paul was doing one of his quieter acoustic numbers, these yokels were screaming at each other, and one guy kept leaning in front of Stefy and me blocking our view (he was from a different row). Stef told him to move, and he went off on her. I tried to stick up for her and told him to have a few more drinks, and then the expletives started spurting out of his mouth. What a class act. Well, at least he finally left right after that though, and we could get back to enjoying the concert.

Anyway, the show was, of course, amazing. The highlights for me were: I Will, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, Hey Jude, Let it Be, Band on the Run, Maybe I'm Amazed, Fine Line, Live and Let Die, and the outro to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/The End medly that Paul did to close the show. There's really not much else to say, other than thanking my gracious hosts the Spiros for bringing me along for the show. It was a truly unforgettable evening.

Whew. Well, Sunday Stef and I spent most of the morning recovering from the night before. We ran some errands to the grocery store for Teri, and helped peel apples through the early afternoon yesterday. Stef's sister-in-law Marina had a birthday on Thursday, so we had the whole Southers crew (including Marina's parents) and Stef's grandma over for a nice dinner. The meal was spectacular, like usual, and it was really great to spend time with everyone.

Well, I guess that's it for now. Gee, I really can't think of a better weekend, or a better concert experience. Wait... what's that you say? U2 is coming into town next week?