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Depressing Morning

So today I woke up at 10:00, which is WAY earlier than I’ve been getting up lately. There was going to be a free Kevin Devine show in Philadelphia. I’d been so hyped about it all week, because it’s FREE. So I leave this morning 1 hour 15 minutes before the show. It’s a 45 minute drive. I figure I’ll be fine.

So the show’s at XPN/World Cafe Live, and the University of Pennsylvania is kind enough to open up some of their lots for free parking. This is excellent, because it’s pretty much impossible to find parking in that area. The first time I had gone to see a show there, the parking lot was a little hard to find, but I eventually did, and made it to the show on time.

Except this time, it was a different lot. I had no way of finding the lot. I was already running late because I had to stop for gas, and there was a bit of traffic. So I passed XPN at exactly 12:03 pm. But I couldn’t find the fucking lot. I called WCL to see if they knew where this lot was. The girl had never heard of Lot 26. She explained XPN and WCL were separate (yeah, okay.) and she never heard anything about free parking. This was in my invitation. I don’t expect everyone to know everything, but I was rather disappointed at how unhelpful she was. I tried calling XPN. It rang and rang and finally made this weird noise, picked up, and dropped the call. So at this point it’s 12:25 because I’ve circled the entire 5 block radius 3 times, and I still can’t find this goddamned lot.

I start to cry, because I’m stupid, and decide to just drive the 45 minutes back home, without seeing the show.

So for now on, I’m not going to any more free KD shows. This same thing happened when I sent to see him for free in New Jersey for the first time ever. I ended up being an hour late because I couldn’t even find the place. But that was back before GPS when all I had was Google Maps printouts.

Anyway to cheer myself up, I bought Snow Leopard at Apple, and got to see a bunch of my old coworkers and friends. I also went grocery shopping and threw out an entire fridge worth of spoiled food. So I feel like today was productive. Unfortunately, now that I’m sitting here thinking, I’m just really upset that I didn’t end up going to the show. Right now I need it more than anything. That sort of thing is the perfect pick-me-up, and I blew it.