should I stay or should I go now...

Wow. It's been so long, I totally forgot I had a blog. I kept sitting here thinking, "I need to write these thoughts down or something!". Duh! Blogspot! Anyways, I just moved to Boston to start grad school. I start classes after Labor Day. So in the meantime I am getting a little lonely and sad. I mean, Boston is great. I love the area, the weather, the people. It's all pretty wonderful. However...if you know me there are a few things in this world that I live for, that keep me going through the tough times. One of those things is music...specifically Jason Mraz's music. I especially live for seeing him live in concert because it is truely a magical, spiritual experience for me. He feeds my mind, heart and soul. Basicly he has been on tour this summer/fall. He played 2 shows in Boston the first week of August (while I was still living in California). Then he has a couple of shows in Northern CA the last week of August (while I was moving to Boston). So, to say the least, I was a little upset. I have not missed Jason on tour since I started listening to him about 6 years or so ago. Anyways, it wasn't THAT big of a deal at first because the shows he was playing in norcal were not full shows anyway. The one in Fresno was an opening gig for Dave Matthews Band; the one in San Francisco was part of the Outside Lands Music Festival; and the other one was out in the middle of nowhere Murphys, CA which I have never heard of and was not worth traveling to anyway. So, I tried to shrug it off...no big deal, even if I was in Nor Cal it wouldn't have been a full Jason show as part of the tour anyway (which, btw, strikes me as VERY strange that the name of the tour is the Gratitude Cafe Tour, which is inspired by the real Gratitude Cafe which is only in the SF Bay AREA!!!! Yet he doesn't play a concert in the bay area for the namesake tour??? WTF!!). Anyways, guess what. Jason must have realized this conundrum because he added a tour date in Berkeley, CA Oct.10th!! Of course I am still in Boston at school during that! Then Charlie tells me that Bushwalla is doing another house show in Santa Rosa Thanksgiving weekend!! And I was planning on going to my mom's in TN for Thanksgiving!! So, now I am very sad and confused that I have to miss these 2 incredible events for the betterment of my education and career! I am SERIOUSLY tempted to buy a plane ticket home for the weekend to see Jason play in concert. I do have a free roundtrip ticket with Jetblue right now. And there are still tickets available to the concert. But I have no idea how hard the course work schedule is gonna be, or if I'll have a job by then, or if I'll have a project due that week or something!! How do I decide?? What do I do? Do I just wait around for another tour? I'm just so sad about it. Sorry to blab because I'm sure nobobdy really gives a shit. But this really means alot to me. His music seriously inspires me. And I can't help but want to experience his magical voice in person again. I guess the ONLY saving grace right now is that he did record a dvd of this tour that's supposed to be out for the holidays. But it's just not the same...Somebody help me decide what to do!