a reflective weekend...

Hi kids. It's your old friend, weatherboy. I want to say that the Metropolitan bar and grill kicks ass. As some of you already know, i went up to get woody from the airport on friday. It turned out that he didn't come in at 6:30, but 11:30. SO, i was rather stuck finding a place to go and hang out. Thank god shwee was there to back me up, she took time out of her schedule to keep me company, thanks shwee. We went and ate at a Palino, and then she had to go hit the bars with the people she made plans with. At this point I moved on downtown to meet up with HEW at the Met. (hew stands for heaon era whore, by the way. it came from a class on the history of japan that ryan and i took in college with our roommate at the time eric, we made up these little rhymes to remember the different years with the appropriate era names. eg. 1334-heaon era whole...get it?) At any rate, when i got there i couldn't get ahold of HEW. So, not wanting to waste the remarkably good mood i was in, i ordered a mac and jacks' and pulled up a stool and watched the sun go down on my city. i was already feeling really good and reflective earlier when i went on a walk around greenlake. i walked around the whole lake all by myself, it was really great. i thought about life and how good things were no matter how stressed i might be from class, i'm still a happy guy. every breath i took was so clear and wonderful. it was windy, which allowed all the smells of the trees and flower to perfume the air, i really hope that everyone who reads this understands what i'm talking about. it was just one of those times where you're so glad to be alive. wow. anyways, back to the Met. i sat there with my beer on these nice stools and hardwood bar along the wall, thinking how i wished i had brought a pen and a notebook to do some writing. i'm sure i would have come up with something brilliant. it was just one of those days where brilliance would be sure to flow. the Met has a great selection of beer, that goes without saying...their hard alcohol is quite good, however they don't carry old raj gin, which is amazing gin by the way. the Met also sells cigars, it's a cigar bar. how fucking cool can one place get!? I was already impressed by the atmosphere of the bar (i've been to the restaurant part, it's awesome too. but this is about the bar), but to have a specific selection of cigars? that's fucking great. i'll be going to the Met more often, i can tell you that. i could have hung out there all day, it was really that inspiring. to be fair though, i had a pretty inspiring walk earlier to put everything into perspective. god. i need to have more days like that, i think we all do.

Eventually, i got to get the dog and HEW came with me down to OlY, the next day we ventured up to seattle again. We met up with shwee who ditched us that morning to take care of a sick bobanna, and watched chapelles' show with her, bobanna, bobanna's BF, and a person shwee calls queen-b...i think, i'm not to sure, good guy though. Afte that HEW and i were hungery and we went to the lynnwood hooters to get some food. (it was late, they were open, and...hey...it's hooters! why not!?) As was the case with the first time i ever went to hooters, HEW and i were the only ones there under 30, besides the waitresses. They were really nice and it was a good meal, the fries there are quite good. All of them say goodbye when you leave, it really makes you feel special, i know it's all apart of the act, but it's an ego boost none the less. After food, we when home and hit the sack.

Sunday sucked. I didn't get much done. I cleaned a little bit, but i need to clean a lot more. I came home and didn't do homework, missed a call from Jen, cleaned, and got nothing accomplished.

Today i got a good deal of shit done. I went to my study group, and it helped me get ready for my first midterm tomorrow. the people in my program are really cool and very nice. i think i got lucky in that respect.

now here i sit, at the end of a long weekend that ran the gamut from boring, to insightful, to stressful, to where i'm at now...tired and not quite ready for the week ahead. I did get to talk to Jen today. that was a highlight of the weekend. she got to greece ok and talked to me on her cell phone while she sat out on her balcony that overlooks the Mediterranean and "the bluest water i've ever seen" according to Jen. I miss her and i'm jealous.

so, now it's time to say goodbye...to all our company...m-i-c...see you real soon...k-e-y...why? because we like you!...M-O-U-S-E.

no idea where that came from...sorry

"haters wanna hate...lovers wanna love...i don't even want, none of the above...i wanna p*** on you..." -gotta love that R-Kelly!

-ROCK STEADY