The Spring Carnival for cmu has arrived. It\’s a student-run event where there are the typical rides…then there are the student booths. Usually it\’s the frats and other social organizations that create these elaborate booths that are about the size of the room, decorated with paint, paper mache…pictures to come!

For one of my classes, we were to build a booth–a home of the future. Unfortunately as part of that class, I also had to do the security watch. So last night, I was out at the parking lot from 3-5 am doing security just making sure nobody unauthorized walked into the fair and stole equipment…

I ended up spending the majority of those 2 hours huddled in fetal position on the sidewalk, rocking back and forth. It was cold!

But today, I saw the Shins in concert. Such an awesome show. Of course like most people, I had discovered them when I saw Garden State. Their music is so mellow, but at one point during the concert, they had an identity crisis and basically did a partial song in the heavy metal genre. Then they started a cover of Led Zepplin\’s Stairway to Heaven… Oh, the concert was so good…standing in the midst of a happy crowd nodding to the music, being completely lost in it, the couples swinging together, some really young people crowd-surfing, smoke flying from cigarettes, and the music…