Rockville was this weekend and I seem to have come down with a case of the "festival flu".
I got to see the Foo Fighters from 3 rows back after waiting 4 hours in one spot
I moshed to the AoT theme song, the Rumbling, by the actual band (and got hit in the face with a pool noodle during another song)
I crowd surfed to Breaking Benjamin and got dropped (but then put back up!)
It's a good thing I waited until the last day to go harder because I felt broken yesterday. My body wasn't so sore today (though bruised) but then i started feeling sick instead. Whatever. At least it's before my cruise next week.
But yeah, this festival was weird. I seem to have become a lot more bothered by being alone. I used to be able to say "they'll still be people there I can hang out with or run into" but there's really not. I got one "friend" I was trying to find and the day he finally saw me (unplanned) was the day he was with his GF and sorta just waved at me. There was a lot of anxiety this time, especially on the first day. Foo Fighters day was mostly good but there was bound to be problems in the crowded situation I was in. I had to get away from a guy who kept touching my shoulders weird and who I kept thinking was trying to get into my back pack. Like, I can tell the difference between when someone bumps into you or grabs you when they're falling or something but this was genuinely uncomfortable and it happened multiple times, even after I kept whipping my head around and he "apologized". Shit like that is just one of the reasons I dont like to be alone. Another guy who was antagonizing people ended up thrown out by security because he was supposedly touching people when they wouldn't move out of his way. It was amazing seeing my favorite band so close but I dobt think I'd ever wait the way I did in one spot at a festival again. It felt more dangerous than any of the pits j went in because I thought actual fights would break out.
