Weekend in review
March 19th, 2006
It’s been one of those weekends.
Friday, on a bit of a whim, I decided to take a long lunch and ended up at Mullaney’s with Chaos, Kelli and Aleris. A few beers, good conversation, good food… no sitting room, sadly, but the music was great, and I realized that a pint of Smithwick’s made me so ridiculously productive for the rest of the day that I’m going to try this ‘Take an hour for lunch to recharge’ thing in this next week to see if it affects my productivity. Up until now I’ve worked through lunch to save time, but I suspect the relaxation time had something to do with it.
That night I joined the Embassy Bar Crawl on Ellsworth. We started at the Harris Grill, which I thoroughly enjoyed. After that we wandered by Infinity… which I will never go to again, and sat down at the Soba Lounge, which in my eyes looked like the kind of establishment that I’m going to have to learn to enjoy, but don’t have to like. It’s Yuppie heaven in there, and while there were very attractive women all over the place, after having a conversation with a few I realized they genuine-to-golddigger ratio in there was way out of proportion for my taste. It’s the place you go to rub elbows with people who will be valuable networking contacts in the future. Anyway, after that we head to Bites and Brews, where we had a great time, and then ended up back at the Harris grill while we arranged for rides back home.
Total intake for that evening: 4 pints, 4 long islands. 4 hours.
Having left my car at the embassy (I had serious balance issues) Karl was nice enough to give me a ride to my place, where I happily crashed for… a total of 5 hours, at which time my internal clock reminded me why I hated it. Fine- still a bit tipsy, working on a hangover, the first thing I did was rehydrate as fast as possible, which seems to have mitigated the worst of it. Happy that I wasn’t feeling as crappy as I did before, I head off via public transportation to go collect my car in chilly, but sunny weather. As I finally got off the bus on Wightman and headed towards my car, I reached for my keys…
…and realized they were still at home. In the apartment. Which was locked.
Right. So the plans for the rest of the day were supposed to be me trying out my new blades on the morewood lot, go see a matinee of V, then head to an advanced Jitterbug Lesson and Swing Cafe afterwards. Instead, I ended up at the Embassy watching Avalon (good movie), then joined them for the aforementioned matinee (great movie), then joined a large crew at Friday’s for long-not-had hangout time with all those peeps (I rarely see them anymore, and am glad for that time). JE was nice enough to take me back by my place so I could break into my apartment (scaling the outside of three floors worth of balcony, WOOT!), and then we head back to his place ofr a relaxed chill-out-with-beer gettogether, which I bowed out early from because my body finally said: “So… you just scaled the outside of a building on a hangover and 5 hours of sleep. What were you thinking? THWAP”
Oh man, 12 hours of sleep never felt so good.
Anyway, today was homework and filing more of the papers that were strewn across my floor (I’m doing the pre-spring-cleaning organizing right now), watching a few movies, writing a really, really, really long email back to Julie (whose conversations require somewhere on the order of 3+ hours to think through), and now kicking back with a bit of caffiene, a bit of something to eat, and photoshop to work on my sister’s website while I idly wait for a good enough time to head out to Salsa.
Yeah… it was one of those weekends. It was good. It included surprises, good times, good relaxation, good introspection, good emotions, good friends, and just in general a good time.
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