Higher and Higher and Higher

I love when things come together exactly how you want them to...  I have far too many reasons to be happy right now, I honestly just don't even know what to do with myself.  This morning at breakfast, I just sat there fidgiting with a huge smile on my face.  Tom claimed I was just gonna vibrate until I exploded I was so happy, Nikhil said I raised the happiness of the entire table by about 300%... I can't help it, when I'm happy I want others to be happy too.

But anywho, current reasons for happiness?

Matt and Kim Tickets
This week I got tickets to go see Matt and Kim with two of my very lovely friends, Manda and Jamie. <3 I just. I love Matt and Kim so much.  Their concerts are one MASSIVE dance party, and it is physically impossible to be unhappy while listening to their music.  They have this fantastic charisma, an unceasing energy, they're honestly psyched to be playing a concert for a bunch of happy dancing people who came to hear their music.  They are living their dream and the love sharing it with everyone <3  Matt and Kim are fantastic individuals.

Chem Exam
Not exactly something you'd think would make the list of things making me happy... Ever really... I hate chem more than any of you could ever understand...  But this week, I joined the Death Cab for Cutie fanclub in an attempt to get presale tickets to a concert their playing, but didn't manage to get them.  In my mind, getting those tickets was going to be the karmic universe's way of making up for the grade I was going to be receiving in discussion when we got our chem exams back not even a half hour after the tickets went on presale.  Well, the universe works in mysterious ways... I did not get the presale tickets.  They were gone within 10 seconds of the sale being open.  Which honestly made me want to cry.  Its been three years since Death Cab's last concert ((my first concert ever)), and I was really excited to see them in this fantastically tiny venue.  Anywho, went to chem thinking everything was going to suck and this was the worst day ever meow meow wallow in sorrow, etc.  Got an 85 on the exam?  Kind of my best grade in that class this semester...

Herbarium
My adorable little old man advisor, Dr. Webster, has to be the biggest sweetheart ever.  He got me an independent study researching plants in the greenhouse with Dr. Anderson, and then just this week he emailed me about a job position opening up with UCONN's herbarium.  So I responded to the email, showed up to what turned out to be job training, and absolutely loved it.  What I get to do is work 10hrs/week taking dried plants that are about a hundred years old, carefully dip them in glue, and stick them to a fancy paper thing, so people can then use them for research later.  Its really cool because the plants are all stored in folds of newspaper, and you never know what kind of plant is there until you open it.  I love little suprises like that, and I LOVE glue...  Its for the entire month of April/until the grant runs out, and I get to hang out, listen to music, play with plants, and chat with other bio dorks.  Its a great time <3

Death Cab for Cutie Tickets
So after the whole presale fiasco, I was still determined to get those tickets... Death Cab is going to be playing a tiny venue ((850 people, The Paradise Rock Club in Boston)), and I reaaally want to see them with my little brother.  Seriously, he's a great kid, and Death Cab is an incredible band.  Chris was so excited, and I felt so bad letting him down on the presale.  So this morning, I called him up at 9, tickets go onsale at 10am, we both fire up our computers and sit there, blasting Death Cab, ticketmaster windows at the ready.  Chris was so excited, talking about how if we got tickets we'd need to "get right next to the stage, you and me screaming I LOVE YOU BEN! AHHHH!!!"  I couldn't let him down and miss seeing THAT.  So as the countdown to the tickets being on sale begins, I realize that the loading of my page refreshing is going slower, and slower.  The first time I had seen Death Cab, it was in a packed venue ((Agganis Arena)) that could hold about 7,500 people... something tells me they were all trying to get tickets again...  Hands shaking, I clicked two tickets, buy now, and typed in the dumb enter the letters above that tripped me up on the presale.  Chris complained about his shaky hands, then confirmed that he had managed to get two tickets.  I had secured two tickets for us as well.  With some celebratory freaking out, and offering 2 of the tickets to my cousin Billy, who didn't manage to get tickets, they were sold out by 10:02, I started potentially the best day ever <3

This venue is so tiny, Chris says, "Ben Gibbard could flip his hair out of his face and his sweat could hit us."

... Ew.

But awesome anyways <3

I honestly cannot stop smiling today.  Its a bit ridiculous, but I love this feeling.

Its the way I see everything I need, its no way to be.  Let this be a little secret, no one needs to know we're feeling higher and higher and higher, higher and higher and higher.  - Passion Pit