Black Monday

I completely forgot that Conrad Black is supposed to be sentenced today. Kudos to the judge for initially scheduling his sentencing for a Friday (November 30) and then for postponing it to a Monday (today), because the newspapers [in Canada] will be able to run "Black Monday" in place of "Black Friday" on their covers. Would "Black Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday" really work as well?

Maybe!

Oh, speaking of not working well, my boss asked my co-worker if I was sick. The reason she asked at all, and the reason she didn't ask me, was because I was asleep with my head on my desk. I got only 5 hours of sleep last night because I didn't get home from the Yo La Tengo show until 1:45 am. Holy crap was last night's show ever good. The opening band was Redd Kross and they were amazing. They were amazing to the point of me getting angry at my friends for not introducing me to them.

Or is it introducing them to me? I forget the order in which you're supposed to introduce people and bands.

And now I can't remember the order in which you're supposed to introduce anyone. Is it old people > attractive young women > people you're dating > other women > family members > everyone else?

Redd Kross also joined Yo La Tengo onstage for YLT's encore. They did a great cover of "Who Loves the Sun," a really-happy-to-be-alive-with-7-people-jumping-for-joy-on-Maxwell's-stage- doing-a-Velvet-Underground-song kind of cover. At the end of the night, I went to the stage and picked up the lyric sheet for that song; it was printed off a computer, but at the bottom in Sharpie was written:

Chorus

Sun, sun, sun

Chorus

Good to know!

Ira's mom joined Yo La Tengo onstage for the very last song, singing "My Little Corner of the World." It was exceptionally sweet.

And I am exceptionally tired, but I am invigorated at the thought of Conrad Black being sentenced soon!