All the things that could've been...

Nicky's here! All the way from Sacramento. She took a red-eye flight and I picked her up from JFK yesterday at 9am! We went to have a bite to eat at a diner, then back to my house to catch up on some much-needed sleep. In the afternoon we met Angelica and Maryann at the mall and ate some more, did a bit of shopping, ate again. Poor Nicky, though; she was apparently coming down with some sort of cold from the day before her flight, and right now she's laying in bed with the possible beginnings of a sinus infection. We had planned to go into the city today and shop around the village, but we changed that to hanging around the house today -- she's hoping that a day of bed rest will stop the illness before it really catches on. So people are coming over later to watch anime and hang out. ^^

In other exciting news, NIN is going on tour this year and there are 2 dates in NYC at the Hammerstein Ballroom. K-rock is having a pre-sale, so I'm going to try desperately to get three tickets (me, Liz, Angelica) for the 16th, but since they limit you to two tickets, Alex from MA is also trying to get two tickets (one for him & one for me). He's so nice. In fact, I wouldn't have even known about the K-rock presale unless he'd called me about it. The presale starts in about 3 minutes, so I'll hopefully be back to update more and let you know whether I was successful or not.

[edit/3:07pm] First attempt was unsuccessful. Limited presale tickets sold out in 7 minutes.

[edit/5:07pm] Second attempt successful! Three tickets to see NIN in (virtual) hand!

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So, getting back to my previous conversation. Nicky's here from Sacramento and will be returning on Tuesday evening. This is her second trip to NYC (which she has completely fallen in love with). I just found out from Angelica that even louiex will be coming over! This is amazing!

After Nicky's back in Sacramento, Warp 11 is having a CD release party for their third album, Boldly Go Down On Me, on Friday, March 11th (and that's Jeff, the drummer, on the cover and wow, he looks good!). When I found out (about two weeks ago) that their third album was finally going to be released, I was so ecstatic that I briefly considered flying out to Sacramento just to be able to go to the show! (Are you able to tell, yet, how much I love them?) I checked airfare, though, and the cheapest flight ($200), required that I stay from Thursday to Monday. When I told Nicky, she asked her mom if it would be alright if I could stay over and her mom said yes (which is amazingly wonderful). And, if I wasn't already going to Japan in a month, I'd go (because I'm crazy, but totally willing to spend $200 to see Warp 11 again, as well as visit Nicky). But I just can't afford to spend that on a whim with a huge trip coming up. But she did say that she would be going to the release party, and picking up a few copies of the CDs, and getting them all autographed!!! I'm so~ excited!

I spoke to Will the other day and he says he does want to go to Japan, although he still hasn't bought a plane ticket, or gotten his passport. I'm supposed to help him do both (since he's self-admittedly lazy).

And the guy that I had contacted about getting the B-T tickets has not gotten back to me since I emailed him a week ago, so I'm afraid I really won't be able to get those tickets, which will completely break my heart.