So, I'm home from the West, now. I got home this morning at 9:40am. The trip was so fun! We went to San Jose for a night, then over to Reno for two days. Reno was so much fun, we got to hang out with Del Mar, of whom are all very very nice. We were invited back for January to go snowboarding and play a couple of shows with them. Bud Gaugh invited us personally to go snowboarding this winter with them at Lake Tahoe. Everything was so cool. After we were done at Reno, we went over to Santa Monica, California. It was beautiful! It was like the Coney Island of the west, only much much cleaner. It was wonderful! The only thing I wish we could've done was gone to Lake Tahoe. But we couldn't go because we didn't have enough time :(. I'm excited to go back. We're going to do a week of shows, and then a week of play. And, beforehand I'll learn to snowboard so I don't end up rolling down the slopes. This trip was definitely the MOST fun weekend I have EVER had. It was even better than the weekend cruise to the Bahamas. Being able to hang out with Del Mar and be referred to by them as "friends" was just an awesome feeling. We were introduced as the "friends from New York". It was great.

We Blew Out of this Town

So, Jesse, Erik, and I are headed west this week. Jesse and I are leaving on Wednesday afternoon, the moment I get out of work, and Erik's meeting us there on Thursday.

Jesse and Erik will be playing a show with Del Mar, featuring Bud Gaugh of SUBLIME, on Thursday night, and then we're headed straight to LA. :)

So I figured I won't have much time to blog (heh... this sentence is so lame) until I get back from the wild,wild west... so I'll do it now, while I have the time.

Last night, Hazmat Bay played at Mc. Z's Pub, which is a nice little bar. I thought they played well.. they did two sets with a half hour intermission in between. It was fun, Megan came with us and it was cool to hang out with Megan and Kim. :)

On Wednesday, Hazmat Bay played at Ollie's Point, and opened up for "Soul To Squeeze" a RHCP tribute, that was sub-par. But the bar was beautiful, and was all about reggae music, which I enjoyed infinitely. That was the first time I was in the bar since it was Molly Bloom's II : a good old shit hole. I was very excited about how it came out, and the owner is terribly awesome. They played after Maui Waui and the Good Vibrations, which was a very fun band. I enjoyed their performance. They go well with Hazmat Bay. Both bands were incredibly energetic, and it was a lot of fun. Moon came down with Sean and her cousin Dean, which was awesome, I really appreciated her coming down and showing support :D. HMB played an intense cover of Santeria (by SUBLIME) where Geoff took the lead on trumpet. It was awesome to hear the crowd scream the words to the Geoff. A very, very good show :)

So now, I am going to start packing and charging batteries and get ready for my superlong flight to San Jose, CA. WEST COAST: I'm coming for you! (And totally not excited about the fact that the day I'll be over jetlag will be the day I come home, and have to get used to it again in NY)

PEACE.

Sooo tired.

The last few days haven't been too eventful. I got a letter in the mail saying that starting on December 1st, I get to serve jury duty. I don't know if that means that my first trial is December first, or if they'll start to summon me on December first. The government has a way of complicating the simple things in life. I should have registered to vote as a Socialist... from what I hear, nobody calls socialists into jury duty.

I just found out that California offers an Earth Science class for their high schoolers, which means that Jesse and I can potentially move out to California and live there forever and ever. I'm excited. I need to find out the teaching requirements for the state, and I need to find out if it'll be looked poorly upon if I get my Masters Degree before even moving out there. But, if I get my Masters Degree, I'll at least be able to teach in colleges part time. :] California, we're on our way! <3

I have class at 12. I don't want to go, but I didn't save up any absences, so I have to. :[
I have to study for Astronomy, and for Music. Two tests, in a row. AND I have work tonight, at 10.

Jesse and I were supposed to go to an Islanders game tomorrow, with Megan and one of her friends, but I couldn't afford it, so we can't go. I don't get paid until this Friday. :[ Oh well, that just means I can stay in my pajamas all day tomorrow, granted my mom doesn't have off from work. But she'll probably have off from work because that's how my days off happen. :[ So instead of pajama day, it'll be slave labor day with mom, Brian, and I.

I wonder what I have to go through to get teaching in California... I really hope it works out for me. I guess whenever I plan a trip to Califorina, I'm going to go to school districts and ask them what I have to do, that way I can do it before I'm completely finished with school.

That's pretty much it, I'm going to meet up with Jesse after class <3.