now with lower expectations

so done expecting the world not to let me down. semiformal and my boyfriend's orchestra concert are the same night, same time. can't go to semi because the boyfriend is playing & i have no one else to go with in any case. and like any good girlfriend i am going to the concert (would also not miss shostakovich 12 for anything) and now i find out that the friend i intended to go to the concert will not be there after all. why? he's going to semiformal. so as of now i am lowering my expectations. people damn well better be awesome on my birthday, because that is the only date i am allowed to have any standards for at all.