Bryant

Has anyone else not at UNL taken Keller Plan class before? Where all you do is take tests? Anyway, I just wrapped up in less than a month a 16 exam political science class, making my 18 hour semester turn right back into a standard 15 hour one. I was at one point pretty impressed with myself and then heard that a couple of friends had finished it in less than two weeks.

I'm headed to Chicago for a leadership conference, for the business fraternity I'm in, Delta Sigma Pi. It's the first of at minimum, 3 trips to the Windy City this year. I'm pumped.

This Thursday is the series finale of the O.C. Tears might flow.

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This last weekend I had the pleasure of attending a concert w/ The Audition, Head Automatica and Jack's Mannequin. Seeing Jack's Mannequin was a long time coming for me, as I was supposed to see them back in June of '05 in Chicago, which just happened to be a couple of weeks after the lead singer was diagnosed with cancer. Head Automatica put on the best live show of any of the bunch, they're made up of a surprisingly talented bunch of musicians and Daryl Palumbo is one hell of a front man.

Other random music stuff (because that seems that's all that I post about)...the new Bloc Party CD, A Weekend in the City is really good. I've posted the opening track.

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I kind of hate to say it, but the new Fall Out Boy CD has been rocking my world lately. It hit the internet a few weeks ago and finally hits stores tomorrow and I'm going to be first in line to pick it up. I've been a fan since Take This To Your Grave, and was terribly disappointed at the end of my freshman year of college with From Under The Cork Tree. The album had a few good songs, but lacked the musical and lyrical tenacity of TTTYG (plus I HATED Sugar We're Goin' Down). Anyway, they're playing the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs in mid-May and I fully intend on going, despite them playing in an arena. It'll be interesting to see a band I remember playing to a few hundred at club shows rock an arena.

Who has heard of this Barack Obama character? He's the flavor of the week for the democratic presidential nomination, and David Lopez, a friend of mine has convinced me to read his book, The Audacity of Hope. I've only read a few chapters, but I encourage everyone to read his first chapter entitled Republicans and Democrats. It's a rousing call to stop the partisan hackery that has become all too common in politics lately. I'm not sure he's earned my support in the upcoming election quite yet, but he's definitely got me listening.

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