An Assortment of Not-Rights

Much of the rest of the year hinges on the fact that I get these concert tickets; not in that I am an uberfan (although I am), or that we are desperate enough to pay an egregious amount of money (my friend said he would pay for both our tickets as a gift), but that it just feels as though getting these tickets will incite a series of breakthroughs throughout the rest of the year. I’ll hear back from the jobs, I’ll get emails saying my essay is being published in the review, or that even the lightbulb lives a little longer and I don’t have to buy a new one so soon. I scoured Reddit for 3 hours. Presale tickets how fast sold out L3? Level 200 seat ticket price. Madison Square Garden holding capacity. Level 100 tickets are projected to be around $175, and that presale sold out within 10 minutes last tour, and so it just seems statistically impossible that this will happen for me. The wifi in my dorm is ever so slow – but if this does happen for me, I feel the positive divinity in the air will make everything all the more better. 

Some very peculiar things have been happening. Spielberg is shooting a movie on our campus; about a month ago, one of our buildings were emptied out and a very comically blaring sticker sign for KANSAS CITY NEWS popped up, and subsequently, a comically large system of satellites on the grass in front all saying KANSAS CITY NEWS, and numerous cars and trucks all affiliated with the same news station. I just assumed Kansas City News was headquartered in Newark, NJ now, until the 20 foot tall set lights appeared at the end of each street, the 100s of crew members wearing black and walkie talkies flooded the streets like little ants, and the police started redirecting traffic. My roommate also sent a story of someone who took a picture of Emily Blunt inside the Fake Kansas City News and it was all the more silly to me why someone would shoot a movie on MLK Blvd of all places – but I will be watching this when it comes out. 

These blog posts work the same way those concert tickets work. I started this blog in October of my Freshman year of college, and until that point, I felt something was painfully missing in my life. I loved to write. I had just started to become slightly recognized in a way that made me feel more legitimate; small Lit Mags accepted my piece and I was reading my prose at some community events. Old classmates from high school texted me saying they really liked how I write. It’s been that whenever I post a blog post, something positive happens. The space around me acknowledges my spirit and my work, makes it happen for me, so that’s what this is.