I’m going to Lollapalooza tomorrow. It’ll be the first live music experience I’ll have gone to. It’s a bit funny — for ages, I’ve been thinking about who I’d see for my first concert, and I never was able to settle on anything. And then all of a sudden, there was a lineup change for Lollapalooza, a friend happened to mention she was going, and I had this weird feeling in my gut that I couldn’t miss this.
I’m flying out to Chicago today, which feels very surreal. This trip has definitely crept up on me. A few weeks ago, I was a bit anxious that I might have made all these plans and spent all this money only to end up hating Lollapalooza. But now, I feel nothing but excitement and a little anxiety over flying (U.S. air travel has been brutal recently).
I think going to this, especially for an artist I love, with friends I love, in a city that… okay I don’t love Chicago but still. Going to Lollapalooza feels like the start of a new era for me. It’s the most exciting and most novel thing I’ll have done in a while. I think I’m going to love it.
