The Get Up Kids, Red Letter Day EP

This album makes me miss, in no particular order, my friend Cara, who first introduced me to the Get Up Kids, my friend Chuck, who put this EP on one of his awesome mix tapes for me in college, and, for that matter, it makes me miss college. I don't miss college very often, because I'm still close enough to the whole experience to remember how sick and tired I was of it by the time I graduated. But I do miss certain aspects of college, like the ready availability of close friends and time to spend with them and a schedule that allowed you to stay up until 2 a.m. if you saw fit. Once upon a time, when I was much, much cooler, I used to stay up until 2 a.m. all the time, to help put out the campus newspaper, or go to a concert. And it was fun. Funny how 24 feels so much older than 20 did.