3 hand stamps and a wrist band later

Another fantastic weekend. Dancing, laughin, smilin, thinkin, shoppin, eatin, sleepin, liftin, and several other of my favorite activities came fast and furious. I've decided that I'm forgetting too many of my weekend activities from the past couple months so I'm gonna have to do a better job of recording them here or somewhere. So what happened this weekend?
Well, for starters, like the best weekends often do, the weekend started THURSDAY night with a trip to Finnegans Wake. I believed I covered that down in the blog somewhere.
Friday I got to help out at Women in Engineering Day at Lockheed Martin. I think I'm going to call Friday "small-world day." First, I run into Drexel SWE reps. Other than the usual stomach-upside-down-can't-talk-straight reaction that I can't figure out why I get, it was an encounter I have to get used to. Demos went well, I got free pizza, and a shirt with "Women in Engineeering" branded on it that I absolutely can't wait to wear to the gym! No really!
Friday night was Godsmack, as mentioned in another entry. However, Ankur and I weren't feelin the Adema opening act, so we went to Tiki Bobs for the dollar-you-call its and part 2 of "small world friday". Amidst my two fisted rum and diets I noticed a jolly greekman that I knew from a time long ago. If there's a list of 5 people I really wanted to see again, Pete would be at the top. Just one of those dudes that's good-people through and through. So we did a little catchin up, then a little drinkin up, and it was off to Godsmack to wiggle my way to the front row and experience the best concert EVER.
Its always funny when I run into people like that. First, I'm not sure if they're actually going to talk to me, but sure enough, they do, and so far they've all been happy (or seemed happy) to see me. The funny part is during the conversations where I know what they want to ask, I can feel it in the brief seconds of silence. Its like "yeah, we have this thing in common that could be interesting to talk about, and we're probably both wondering about it, but won't bring it up." :P
Anywho, great times were had Friday night, which brings us to Saturday. As usualy I woke up at 8, a mere 4 hours after the bedtime of 4 hours. So what do I do? Go back to sleep? HELL NO, its SWIM TIME! I don't know if my body was too tired to realize what I was doing to it, or if I was numb from the concert, but it was a mighty swim.
After the swim, back to the condo, then off to the Lincoln Financial Field for the lockheed superbox. Good times with the fun crew, good food, good beers and oh yeah, something about football. Highlight though had to be seeing a drunk african american female start swinging at an equally drunk white dude. Both were escorted out along with a passed out dude that had trouble keeping his pants on. Reminded me of Alex for some reason.
So Saturday morning I had made a pact with myself. "don't go out tonight. Don't. No matter what Ankur says. No matter what Koch or Karen or Alex or Ryan or Greg say. Even if Paris Hilton drops a text message about a casting call for the sequel to her smash hit video, do NOT go out."
So anyway, Top Dog Saturday night rocked :P I didn't think I'd go back again after last weekend's Saturday night debacle, but the parking lot was clear and we headed on in! Although I was a bit tired, and by a bit I mean rumble strips are my friend :) There was actually a surprisingly fun crowd for a Saturday night at Top Dog. Met up with the crew from Lockheed, partied it up upstairs, then got down downstairs. The coverband was decent, as were the groupies from delaware and maryland. Ankur and I showed 'em jersey boys ain't that bad after all :) The situation was stacked against us though, and we left peacefully into the night to a rounding rendition of Hey Ya.
Sunday I woke up after 8am. A first for me in a month or so and I was proud of myself. Didn't get too much done today, except for a great dinner with Frank and Regina over in Delanco. Chateau Briand. Period. The end. That's all I gotta say :)
I'm so glad to have the people I have in my life, especially them. I've been rough on myself the past couple weeks. Unsure of many things and trying to answer questions I don't know if I can. But they've been there to pick me up when I'm feeling blue, and fill up my tummy when I'm feelin hungry. I still can't fathom how I got lucky enough to have them in my life, but I'm still thanking whoever it is that helped that happen. Yeah, even you Alex ;)
Now its Sunday night, and I've gotta finally do some homework.
Of course, I've probably left out some details. Some deliberately, some accidentaly, but at this point in this entry, either way its better off to be finished with my rambling :P

Now its time to buckle down and get ready for a grueling week of work. And by grueling week of work I mean 16 hours in 3 days 8^)

Coming Soon:
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