Today was really awesome. I slept in (surprise, surprise). I did work on my resume for a bit after getting up, but I’m starting to feel a bit overwhelmed with the job search. At least I got some work done on it and I emailed a friend of mine who works in HR and asked him a couple questions and also asked him to go over my resume to make sure there are no glaring errors in it. Now I feel like I can start applying for financial services type jobs (that I don’t want), but I still don’t have a resume I can use to start applying for more creative jobs. I might just apply for some financial services type jobs for a while and then hopefully get another version of my resume done so I can apply for other jobs I’m more interested in. So I didn’t get a ton done today, but at least I did something. It’s a start – even if it’s just a small one.

So a couple days ago when I got home I sat down at my computer with nothing particular I was looking to do and I got the urge to go to the citypages website. I never go to the citypages website so it was kind of weird, but I logged on to their website and saw an article about this musician who I absolutely love. She goes by the name A Fine Frenzy and there was an article about her and her new album. She’s currently touring and I found out that she’d be in Mpls on 10/25. I immediately found out there are tickets available and found a friend to go with me. This artist wasn’t really on my radar until a couple years ago. I downloaded an album she released in 2007 and it really spoke to me. Her music is very honest and she’s got a beautiful voice and the album came into my life when I was having a much harder time feeling lonely and like I’d never become romantically involved with someone (the jury is still out on that one). I listened to the album, called One Cell and the Sea, over and over again for a while. It gave me a lot of comfort. I really enjoyed seeing her in concert tonight and ended up meeting her for just a second. Since I’m on crutches we got to take the back elevator and as we were leaving she was standing waiting to go down. One of the things I love about the friend who went to the concert with me is that she just strikes up conversations with everyone. So when she noticed that it was her she started talking to her right away and pulled me into the conversation. For the most part I just stood there and smiled, but it was still nice to meet her in person. I wish I could have told her how much her music means to me and how much I’ve gotten out of her albums, but I failed miserably at that. I’m hoping to find a way to send her a piece of fan mail letting her know. I’m very drawn to people who are able to succinctly and accurately express their emotions. I find music is one of the best mediums for doing that because you really only have a few minutes to honestly and compellingly tell a story. I hope that some day our paths cross again in the future. I’d love to be able to have a real conversation with her and get to know her a little bit. She seems like an amazing person. What a fantastic night.

I’m also planning on getting up early(ish) in the morning so I won’t sleep the whole day away. I’d really like to stop sleeping 12 hours a night, but I also realize I’m 3 weeks out from a major knee surgery and if my body needs me to sleep 12 hours a night right now I should really listen to it. I’m sure in not too long I’ll be back to sleeping for 8 hours a night and then waking up feeling rested. I was depressed so much growing up that it seemed I never had much problem sleeping for 12 or more hours at a time so now I hate doing it. It makes me think about how I felt at that time and what a struggle it was. I don’t want to go through that again if I can avoid it.