Lose My Breath

I finally have a chance to stop and think for a second - this past week has been absolutely crazy. Started out last weekend with my first trip to UMass of the new year. Saw a bunch of the bros, went to the football game and saw the band (this year's show: Pirates of the Caribbean and a Barry Manilow medley, my mom is pumped). Got a little nostalgic for the band and the bros, but I digress, my college days are behind me...or so I thought. Saturday night was a trainwreck, but an enjoyable one none the less.

Tuesday night I went to the Sox game with Andy - it was good to catch up with him, since he'd been in Manchester since the end of last summer. Sox won - it was a pretty good game, and Dice-K made quite the comeback performance and got a great ovation when he left in the 6th. They had been on a hot streak, 7 wins in a row, but they lost to the Angels 3-4 last night. Still, they're 6 up on Texas for the wild card and 7 behind the Yankees for the AL East. October baseball in Boston seems all but certain.

Wednesday was a mess trying to get home from steering committee. There was a fire at South Station AND Chinatown, effectively shutting down the red and orange line throughout Boston proper. For the red line (which I take to Davis), I got on a bust at park street and took that all the way to JFK (complete opposite direction of where I needed to go), and then was able to get on a red line train. All red line trains were running express from JFK to Harvard on some tracks that hadn't been affected by the fire...which I'm still not sure why/how that worked. Anyways, it should have taken me about 20 minutes to get home, and it took about 2 hours. Thanks again MBTA...

Exciting weekend (well, Sunday at least) on tap. I'm going to see U2 at foxboro with Katie, Miss Alison Hay and Nicholas. I've been waiting since, probably forever, to see them in concert, and I got these tickets in APRIL! or maybe March, but I digress...I was on their site yesterday looking at some of the set lists and came across a photo of the stage

photo courtesy of U2.com

If that's any indication of what the rest of the show is going to be like, I might pee my pants. You can bet that I'll post a review on Monday at some point, and also complain about the $40 (!!!) to park. Gross.

I have a major conundrum, two of my most anticipated movies of the fall An Education and Where the Wild Things Are open on the same day, October 16. Which one to see? I've posted both trailers below...I'll let you help decide...

An Education

Where the Wild Things Are


I mean, I plan on seeing both, but which one to see first...

Ok friends, that seems to be it for right now - leave opinions about An Education/Where the Wild Things Are in the comments. Oh! And don't forget to support me in the B.A.A. Half Marathon - 3 weeks from Sunday til the race!