From fun to midterms

I'm avoiding studying for my french midterm with anything and everything that will distract me for a few minutes. I don't know how my week has come to this. Last week was so amazing. On Wednesday I went to see the Kirov ballet perform Sleeping Beauty at the Dorothy Chandler and it was incredible. The costumes and scenery were phenomenal and all the dancers looked really really Russian. A lot of the crowd was Russian too. Almost everyone I walked by during the intermission had a thick Russian accent. I felt displaced. The whole night was wonderful, the only down side was that our seats were in the highest balcony and I'm terrified of heights. The walk up to our seats was miserable because the walls in the lobby are covered with mirror from top to floor which gave me an even worse sense of vertigo and I ended up having to take the elevator when the rest of my house walked up the stairs without a problem. Having our seats that far above the stage freaked me out and once again images of me falling over the railing and plummeting to my death kept racing through my mind, but once I was seated for a few minutes things got better and I was able to enjoy the ballet. What a beautiful show.

This Saturday night after we kicked some Arizona ass in football, I headed to the Franz Ferdinand concert with Brigitte, Connor and Scott. We were late, but I don't think we missed anything with the opening bands. One guy in the opening band had an amazing Gandalf beard. It was out of control. I dont even know what band it was, all I could think about was his excessive amount of facial hair. I ordered a coffee at the food stand, but found a piece of onion in my drink...too gross. The theater wasn't even full because they had roped off the entire back two sections so it felt like a small concert even with a band as big as Franz Ferdinand. I had a great time. They played a lot of songs from their first album which I was glad about and their scottish accents and floppy hair were too adorable. Here are some pictures.



The view from our seats



Our attempts to concoct a new facebook picture for me by using Connor's recently purchased Franz Ferdinand poster as a background failed miserably, but at least we had a good laugh.