10.29.06
A weekend in which I got injured. Twice.
And I enjoyed every minute of it!
Several months back, Jeff and I made the decision to have a sort of “mini-vacation” in downtown Atlanta this weekend (a whopping 25 miles from home!) Why? Tech’s Homecoming game was this weekend, as well as all of the activities surrounding it. So, instead of driving back to our house after Mini 500 on Friday and then back down to Tech at 8am on Saturday so we could see the Wreck Parade, we got a room at the Renaissance right across the interstate from Tech, well within walking distance.
A couple of weeks after we booked the hotel, we found out that Mute Math was playing the Roxy on Friday night. EXCELLENT! Jeff saw them at Cornerstone a few months ago, and I’ve wanted to see them ever since I first listened to the CD Jeff picked up, so we were all over that.
The concert was AWESOME. Seriously. Best show I’ve seen all year, I think. They had three opening acts - the Bowie-esque Club of the Sons (very entertaining, even though their music isn’t quite my cup of tea), Jonezetta (somewhat reminiscent of Franz Ferdinand), and the Whigs (a band out of Athens, so they had a fairly large group of fans there, too - I was not terribly impressed. All of their songs sounded the same to me). But when Mute Math came on, it put all the others to shame. I won’t write a review here, mostly because I don’t think I’d be able to without gushing. 
Jeff and I managed to get there early enough to secure a spot up front and center on the floor, so when they played “Reset” for their encore, and Paul started passing around the Atari to the crowd, we were able to get our hands on it - very cool! Jeff shot some video of that part - and if you look closely you can see a moment where the Atari drops suddenly (at approximately 5:02 in the video), which is how I secured injury #1 of the weekend. I was passing it forward to the stage, since the song was just about over, and I thought the guy next to me had a good grasp on it, but he apparently didn’t, and I wound up dropping it on my head. I had a good red mark on my forehead the rest of the night, but as far as I can tell, I didn’t bruise!
Saturday morning, we slept in a little bit, since we were out late at the concert the night before. However, we slept a little TOO late and missed the Wreck Parade completely, including the ever-entertaining Contraption category. We spent most of the morning wandering around campus looking at the various Homecoming displays in front of the fraternities and sororities (including a very humorous display in front of one of the fraternities which consisted of a large Buzz swinging a helmet at the head of a Sebastian the Ibis. :lol:). We swung by Jeff’s fraternity house for lunch and then headed on to the game.
Let me tell you. Georgia Tech football is going to drive me to an early grave. I was a nervous wreck the entire game, from the moment that Reggie Ball fumbled on the first play of the game and a Miami guy ran it back for a touchdown. We trailed most of the first half, and I wasn’t feeling so well anyway, so I was sitting down a good portion of the time. After halftime, Tech seemed to get its act together again and pulled out to a two-touchdown lead with about 3 minutes left to go. My mood had improved significantly at that point, so I got caught up in the moment and started jumping up and down with the rest of the crowd. Which brings me to injury #2. You should really look where you are jumping when you are celebrating. I wound up jumping a little too close to the bleacher seat in front of me and banged my shin up against it, removing a little skin at the same time. IT HURT. BAD. I said a bad word or two. And it kind of ruined my mood. It’s pretty sore today, but I’m hoping it feels better soon.
After the game, we went back to Theta Xi to watch the end of the UF-UGA game. Georgia lost. 
:) :)
And UNC lost, too. :) :)
Now, if NC State had been able to pull out a win, it would have been a perfect weekend. But it was a pretty darn good one otherwise!